Penalty taker

[Jose Jones]

22 minutes ago, Razoray said:

The Liverpool penalty takers who have taken more than 5 in the "modern" era. Neal's record is surprisingly average. The mid-80s to mid 90's was unbelievably successful. 

 

 

 

Murphy 8/8 = 100%
Walters 6/6 = 100%
Aldridge 17/18 = 94.4%
Molby 42/45 = 93.3%
Milner 19/21= 90%
Barnes 11/13 =85%
Gerrard 47/57 = 82%
Fowler 20/25 = 80%
Salah 20/26 = 77%
Liddel 34/45 = 76%
Neal 38/51 = 74%
Smith 22/32 = 69%

It’s mad that Phil Neal kept taking the pens when he wasn’t that good at them, while we had the greatest striker in the history of the club on the pitch.

How many goals would Rush have got to if he had more than 4 penalties?

[Razoray]

2 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

It’s mad that Phil Neal kept taking the pens when he wasn’t that good at them, while we had the greatest striker in the history of the club on the pitch.

How many goals would Rush have got to if he had more than 4 penalties?

Rush took 5 for us and missed two of them. It seems to be a specialist skill

[Babb'sBurstNad]

It's weird how often forwards are absolute gash at them. Mo's technique is just blasting it and even Messi always looked a bit dodgy from 12 yards.

[Razoray]

Just now, Razoray said:

Rush took 5 for us and missed two of them. It seems to be a specialist skill

Dalglish took 1 in his career, for Scotland and scored it. 

 

Terry Mac stepped in for Phil Neal a few times and wasn't great either -  15/19. 

[Razoray]

1 minute ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

It's weird how often forwards are absolute gash at them. Mo's technique is just blasting it and even Messi always looked a bit dodgy from 12 yards.

Messi has missed 31 of 140

[Turkish Delight]

14 hours ago, Street Preacher said:

Dom has scored 15 & missed one so far, so good record.

 

Watched a vid which showed ten of his penalties & he went to the keepers right every single time. Not sure if that is what his does for every penalty or not.

 

I watched that. The keepers knew where he was going on most and dived the right way but couldn't get near them.

[LFC 6 Times]

Mo has to be taken off them. 100% has the yips now.

 

I’d get Mac on them, looks like he has the best variation on them.

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[Barrington Womble]

1 hour ago, El Rojo said:

 

Great penalty.

 

 

 

 

Personally i thought that was very saveable. certainly not in the corner. 

1 hour ago, Razoray said:

The Liverpool penalty takers who have taken more than 5 in the "modern" era. Neal's record is surprisingly average. The mid-80s to mid 90's was unbelievably successful. 

 

 

 

Murphy 8/8 = 100%
Walters 6/6 = 100%
Aldridge 17/18 = 94.4%
Molby 42/45 = 93.3%
Milner 19/21= 90%
Barnes 11/13 =85%
Gerrard 47/57 = 82%
Fowler 20/25 = 80%
Salah 20/26 = 77%
Liddel 34/45 = 76%
Neal 38/51 = 74%
Smith 22/32 = 69%

i would like to see gerrard's stats after pepe reina told him where to put them (and minus the get hodgson sacked one). he wasn't good early on, but once reina showed him the spot in the corners that were impossible to save, he was exceptional. 

[El Rojo]

5 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

 

 

Personally i thought that was very saveable. certainly not in the corner. 

i would like to see gerrard's stats after pepe reina told him where to put them (and minus the get hodgson sacked one). he wasn't good early on, but once reina showed him the spot in the corners that were impossible to save, he was exceptional. 

 

Just looked at it again and you're probably right - not that close to the corner. Good power on it though. 

[aws]

1 hour ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

It's weird how often forwards are absolute gash at them. Mo's technique is just blasting it and even Messi always looked a bit dodgy from 12 yards.

These days Mo’s blast is more of half-hit.  

[Jairzinho]

Mo would throw a massive strop if he was taken off penalties. 

 

So, Szoboszlai.

[El Rojo]

2 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Mo would throw a massive strop if he was taken off penalties. 

 

So, Szoboszlai.

 

Different sized font giveaway - looks like I've found me a Szoboszlai cut-and-paster.

 

Bet you've Kvaratskhelia saved in the same file for similar purposes. 

 

[Jairzinho]

Just now, El Rojo said:

 

Different sized font giveaway - looks like I've found me a Szoboszlai cut-and-paster.

 

Bet you've Kvaratskhelia saved in the same file for similar purposes. 

 

 

Easy for you to say from your ivory tower there in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

[Scott_M]

1 hour ago, El Rojo said:

 

Great penalty.

 

 

Calm as you like…

[El Rojo]

9 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Calm as you like…

 

Much more impressive was his pass to set Dumfries free to earn the penalty.

 

 

[Scott_M]

7 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

 

Much more impressive was his pass to set Dumfries free to earn the penalty.

 

 

Beauty. 
 

I see he scored a good goal and got a good assist v Greece on Thursday. My Dad said he watched the game and text me how well Gakpo was playing. 

[El Rojo]

Just now, Scott_M said:

Beauty. 
 

I see he scored a good goal and got a good assist v Greece on Thursday. My Dad said he watched the game and text me how well Gakpo was playing. 

 

Such a quality footballer. He often looks better coming from deep, though, which will be tricky as we now have two proper, well-rounded 8's who can do similar. Will be interesting to see how we use him. 

[Scott_M]

9 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

 

Such a quality footballer. He often looks better coming from deep, though, which will be tricky as we now have two proper, well-rounded 8's who can do similar. Will be interesting to see how we use him. 

Definitely good to have options now. For the whole time Klopp was here, unless he was injured, more or less, Firmino was #9.

 

Having Gakpo, Nunez & Jota, all who can play through the middle and out wide (assume Diaz & Mo stay wide), will certainly be beneficial going forwards.
 

They’ll all get plenty of minutes this season. 

[Barrington Womble]

45 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

@Code would throw a massive strop if Mo was taken off penalties. 

 

So, Szoboszlai.

Fixed. 

[TheHowieLama]

3 hours ago, Razoray said:

 The mid-80s to mid 90's was unbelievably successful. 

 

 

Different rules for the Keepers?

[suzy]

3 hours ago, Razoray said:

The Liverpool penalty takers who have taken more than 5 in the "modern" era. Neal's record is surprisingly average. The mid-80s to mid 90's was unbelievably successful. 

 

 

 

Murphy 8/8 = 100%
Walters 6/6 = 100%
Aldridge 17/18 = 94.4%
Molby 42/45 = 93.3%
Milner 19/21= 90%
Barnes 11/13 =85%
Gerrard 47/57 = 82%
Fowler 20/25 = 80%
Salah 20/26 = 77%
Liddel 34/45 = 76%
Neal 38/51 = 74%
Smith 22/32 = 69%

Wow, surprising how your mind plays tricks! 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

3 hours ago, Razoray said:

The Liverpool penalty takers who have taken more than 5 in the "modern" era. Neal's record is surprisingly average. The mid-80s to mid 90's was unbelievably successful. 

 

 

 

Murphy 8/8 = 100%
Walters 6/6 = 100%
Aldridge 17/18 = 94.4%
Molby 42/45 = 93.3%
Milner 19/21= 90%
Barnes 11/13 =85%
Gerrard 47/57 = 82%
Fowler 20/25 = 80%
Salah 20/26 = 77%
Liddel 34/45 = 76%
Neal 38/51 = 74%
Smith 22/32 = 69%

 

Interesting. I'd wonder if the uptick in conversion rate has something to do with the evolution of the ball itself. The old leather balls got heavy with moisture, but mid eighties they started using more modern designs that'd stay light. 

 

Read an article about Mexico '86 being the first World Cup to use a modern ball, and it being no coincidence that Maradona shone with it.

[3 Stacks]

Don't really care who takes pens because on the one hand, they're a lot of the time a stat padding thing for the best goal scorer on the team, and on the other, we can't see who is best at them in training. It's one of those things for me like the captaincy that isn't really worth talking about.