Penalties - post Luis

[cdbearsfan]

Hit the post, too. The thread title works on a number of levels, none of which is "correct spelling".

[PeterWithesShin]

Him missing was karma for leaving us, and for his stupid run up.

[JJ-AV]

Tielemans or Diaby I think

I'm hoping Diaby can be our most improved player next season and he seems a penno bagger

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

It's got to be Watkins. Shying away from pens has shoved him down the england pecking order, he could be sitting on an easy 10 extra free goals a season. It's not like it's something that you can't work on.

[Somniloquism]

Watkins, like a lot of his scoring seems to be in spurts. So if he has been scoring regularly, put him on penalties. If he has not scored for three games, replace with someone else.

[cdbearsfan]

Presumably if Watkins wanted to take them he'd be begging Southgate to take them and would have been smashing them in during training. If this was the case I'd have expected to see him come on as sub, even if only after 119 minutes. They brought Alexander-Arnold on after 115 minutes for this purpose and could still have made a sixth sub, I think.

If this isn't happening I'd suggest he won't be first choice for Villa, either.

[alan_clarke]

Definitely not Watkins - though scoring his latest one in the ECL shootout he still ended up on his arse...

[Monty]

I see I'm still the only voter for Pau. I just think he's got Barry vibes.

[ChicagoLion]

Tielemens is the best striker of the ball. Diaby seems to be too affected by confidence issues.

[SoccerHQ]

Tielemans or Diaby I think

I'm hoping Diaby can be our most improved player next season and he seems a penno bagger

Could be wrong but think he missed a few for Leverkusen.

It will be Tielemans and SJM next season and I do think Ollie will want to get back on them aswell so he'll take ones for a potential hat trick if he's scored twice and we are awarded one late on.

[Risso]

It'll be Watkins as Stinkin says above. I think he'll insist on it, and while Tielemans for example might be better at them, I don't think he's a guaranteed starter, and seems to have a fair few injury issues as well.

[Bad English]

It'll be Watkins and he is going to have to put his first one away or there will be audible tutting.

[john e]

Watkins hasn’t got the confidence to take penalties, he piss pools about skipping & jumping not knowing what to do.
Just put the ball down, walk back to the edge of the box run up bang it hard and low to one side of the goalie

For a striker it should be easy peezy to do that why all the fuss and nonsense I’ve got no idea, remember it’s harder to miss a penalty than it is to score even if you miss kick it it’s got a good chance of going in like the one Watkins took in Lille

Why give the goalkeeper an advantage by fucking about I’ll never know.

[SoccerHQ]

I'd be fine with Ollie taking penalties...at 2-0 up and in the 89th minute.

Luiz took a couple in that situation when we'd already won games.

However the two crucial league ones last season were Palace in the 90th minute as we gained huge confidence from turning that around late on and so then went on a very good league run right up to Boxing day.

Then we had a wobble and nearly messed up not beating Burnley. Again Luiz scored to beat them in the 90th minute.

Depends who in the squad you'd be confident of slotting away in those circumstances. Tielemans scored plenty for Leicester and he stuck away the Lille penalty very comfortably so I think he can do that job expertly but of course he might not be on at the end of games so much.

[VillaTim]

I'd imagine Torres could take a good pen.