Super Steve Earle
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Mac Allister for me. Best in my 60 years watching Albion. Never thought he would miss.
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[Albion] Most Successful Pen Taker.
- Thread starter Cowfold Seagull
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From memory average
- Jul 10, 2003
- 28,978
I still don't understand how JP sends the keeper the wrong way such a high percentage of the time. It must be body shape as he's always looking at the ball as he hits it, so it can't be his eyes or seeing which way the keeper is moving before hitting it
I'm pretty sure Tomer watched the keeper throughout.
Bit more than helping out…….it’s his job
I think this is genuinely why England have been so unsuccessful at penalty shoot outs over the years.
The fact that brilliant penalty takers with a proven successful techniques make people nervous, where as someone just smashing it fills people with confidence.
Cowfold Seagull
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- #47
Way out in front? . . . though of course the majority of Tomer's would have been scored in the Championship.
Cowfold Seagull
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- #48
I know that Gus used to turn his back everytime he took one. Too nervous to watch!
Mind you, so was l.
Brian Munich
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- Jul 7, 2008
- 843
I've tried working this out as well. Does he send the keeper the wrong way, or is he waiting for the keeper to move? Eze failed at doing the latter last week with an amusing result.I still don't understand how JP sends the keeper the wrong way such a high percentage of the time. It must be body shape as he's always looking at the ball as he hits it, so it can't be his eyes or seeing which way the keeper is moving before hitting it
I'm pretty sure Tomer watched the keeper throughout.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Danny Wilson was good
Brian Horton
Cowfold Seagull
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- #53
Before my time as a player sadly.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 28,978
He's definitely not waiting for the keeper to move, because he's looking at the ball in the last moments before he hits it. It must be something he does before the final moments, maybe body position ? I'm fairly sure Hemed waited for the keeper, but it's definitely not part of JP's technique.
AZ Gull
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He took 15 penalties for us - he scored 10 and missed 5.
He has also successfully scored the 1 penalty he took against us.
Jimmy Grimble
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5/5 I think.
Can we do goalkeepers? Stockdale surely the best in The Amex era, saved 4 out of 10. All 4 were significant in the outcome of the match as well if I remember correctly.
Bart probably the worst in a very long time out of our regular keepers. Even Sanchez saved one.
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And of course he took, and scored, the infamous penalty against Palace that was disallowed for encroachment by Palace players - and missed the re-take. Which led to much of the whole Palace thing.
IIRC the one Le Tiss save was Mark Crossley who had a great record at saving penalties. I believe he also spent a lot of time studying penalty takers so that he could read them.
Edit: he actually only saved 3 out of 43. Le Tiss, Lineker and Sheringham. So the second half of what I wrote is probably nonsense.
An interesting article on penalty takers
www.premierleague.com
Who is the Premier League's best penalty-taker ever?
With Bryan Mbeumo maintaining his perfect record, we look at the contenders to be the penalty king
www.premierleague.com
stewart12
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- Jan 16, 2019
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Ben Roberts was pretty good