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by mr_nool » Sun Jan 02, 2011 7:18 pm
john@staustell wrote:Although I haven't been a student of football around the world too much over time, there are very few that seem to do great penalties. IE: they have the skill to watch the keeper go and then just place it somewhere else. Most people, including Shearer and Tevez, just look up at the goal and hit it somewhere. Whether the keeper gets to it or goes the right way is luck or sheer power/placement right in the corner. Tevez' kicks are always 'saveable'.
Unfortunately the very best at this black art was Cantona, then Le Tissier. Balotelli seems to have this ability, dare I say it? Although we have only seen one keeper baffled as yet!
Rag or not, Jesper Olsen was the master of waiting for the keeper to make the first move. Brolin also did it really well.
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by ross.mcfc » Sun Jan 02, 2011 8:25 pm
Beefymcfc wrote:I think the Keeper out-smarted him and he panicked a bit.
My thoughts too. If it had been on target the keeper would have saved it.
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by Goataldo » Sun Jan 02, 2011 11:11 pm
That was such a poor pen that even it had been on course to go inside the post, Kingston had it covered. A pea roller that wouldn't cut the head off a daisy.
I've never liked Carlos's penalty technique, they always look crap, if a scoring penalty can look crap. And it can. Cos they have.
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