Should Alisson have had a shot?

[Jose Jones]

He won't get many better chances to score.  What do you reckon?

[J-V]

No idea what you're on about but Yes.

[Jordy Brouwer]

Its when their keeper came up for the corner. 

 

No, we really needed to start just keeping the ball at that point. 

[A_S]

Not often you see two keepers that handsome in the same penalty area though, the suave South American bastards. 

[Dr Nowt]

I was instinctively livid with him for not doing.

 

I then realised why I’ve generally made such an arse of life when it dawned on me he’d been right, what would have been too late had I been in his position.

[Anubis]

Smart choice was to keep control of the ball and take the win. Also, I think there was a bit of fellow goalkeeper respect there for Gazzy’s performance, and not wanting to humiliate him.

[an tha]

If we were losing yeah, even if we were drawing then probably - buy at 2-1 up with little time left then no, not in my book.

 

Safety first - keep hold of it, then distribute it for us to run out clock.

[Jose Jones]

16 minutes ago, Jordy Brouwer said:

Its when their keeper came up for the corner. 

 

No, we really needed to start just keeping the ball at that point. 

There was like 10 seconds to go.  Almost absolutely zero risk.  Gazzaniga would have had to leg it all the way back to his goal to take the goal kick, had it gone wide.   So it would have used up more time than what we ended up doing.

[an tha]

1 minute ago, Jose Jones said:

There was like 10 seconds to go.  Almost absolutely zero risk.  Gazzaniga would have had to leg it all the way back to his goal to take the goal kick, had it gone wide.   So it would have used up more time than what we ended up doing.

Let's suppose he scuffed it or it cannoned against a Spurs player...

[sir roger]

We'd have been talking about it for forty years if he had scored , the alternative was it would have gone out for a goal kick or taken Spurs 10 seconds to go and get the ball anyway.

 

Having said that I acknowledge that Alisson's common sense probably won us the CL last year after he ignored Jurgen demanding he went up for the late corner at Barca.

[Jose Jones]

11 minutes ago, an tha said:

Let's suppose he scuffed it or it cannoned against a Spurs player...

How many times has Alisson scuffed kicking the ball out of his hands? 

[Lee909]

Absolutely not

 

Too often we fuck around late trying flicks late on. Milner had the right idea, get to the corner flag in the dying seconds and kill the game

[Kevin D]

1 minute ago, Lee909 said:

Absolutely not

 

Too often we fuck around late trying flicks late on. Milner had the right idea, get to the corner flag in the dying seconds and kill the game

 

Moreno going storming forward in the 93rd minute away to Villiarreal comes to mind.

[an tha]

12 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

How many times has Alisson scuffed kicking the ball out of his hands? 

Fair point but how many times has he been trying to score when doing so...

 

Just seems to me an uncessary risk.

[Kevin D]

23 minutes ago, sir roger said:

We'd have been talking about it for forty years if he had scored , the alternative was it would have gone out for a goal kick or taken Spurs 10 seconds to go and get the ball anyway.

 

Having said that I acknowledge that Alisson's common sense probably won us the CL last year after he ignored Jurgen demanding he went up for the late corner at Barca.

 

Yeah, I reckon he should have gone for it.

 

Scoring goals is the most effective way of time wasting. 

[Code]

We should  have hit them on the counter

[Ne Moe Imya]

He absolutely should have taken the shot.

 

Risk was miniscule, there was around 10 seconds on the clock, and would have ensured himself instant hero status for life had he scored. Imagine, just IMAGINE how the ground would have erupted had he scored!

 

I reckon he would have put it in the back of the net as well, the beautiful Brasilian bastard. His long kicking is ace, he could have easily done it.

[s(k)aturation]

 

I think he should definitely have taken the shot - there wasn't time left for him to dribble his way through the Spurs ranks for a closer-range opportunity.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

No doubt he could hit the opposite goal, but I'm not convinced he'd have the space to get a nice clean kick away with 21 other people in the box.

 

He had a choice between a shot at personal glory and securing the points for the team. His decision pleases me. 

[TheHowieLama]

He has probably had a couple shots since.

[Numero Veinticinco]

100% correct decision by Alisson.

[dockers_strike]

Intriguing question! I think if we'd been 2 goals clear he might have but seeing as we were protecting a goal lead, retaining possession was the priority.