Penalties

[colincramb]

Aside from the ability to take a penalty, I think what did for us was mentality and momentum. Crewe were just grateful to get to that point, our players probably felt like they’d lost the game.

I knew (and said to my mate) that we weren’t going to win that shootout.

[Spud]

Crewe looked like they were playing for em as soon as they went two up, bizarre...

[karldew]

I wonder if we practised penalties or not after the game on Monday?

Have to have done surely. Criminal if not.

We were going out to win the game, if that was the mentality would us practicing penalties gone against that? Who knows but no one really looked confident.

When it got decided they were being taken in front of the north stand, I said the majority of our penalties would go away from the Crewe fans, the positioning of them behind the net would of certainly made most people go right.

[drfchound]

Just watching the EFL highlights show, the penno claim on Hurst when he got barged over was clear as anything, but then again, this ref gave us nothing all game, so he wasn't going to start then?

I agree. Defender just cut straight across him. Definitely a penalty

Not only did the defender block Hurst but their 17 put a leg in and tripped him.

[drfchound]

A pal of mine told me a few years back that in lots of cases, in a shootout, the team which misses first very often goes on to win.
Since then I have seen it happen many times.
After their miss, Zain HAD to score to,put the pressure on Crewe’s next man up.

[Colin C No.3]

Penalties.

Only ever ‘really count’ when you have five opportunities to take them to win a game, be it a ‘damp squid’ of a cup competition or an opportunity to go to Wembley & gain promotion.

Or do they?

No.

A penalty taken during the ‘heat of a league fixture’ has as much pressure & technique needed to execute a goal as any other goal scored from ‘open play’.

If Joe Ironside had been given the opportunity to take one in the 90th minute of Friday’s game, it would have been worth all the goals put together that he had scored during the course of the season that ‘weren’t necessary’ to win the game in which he’d scored one.

Enjoy your pre season, whoever you are.