Matt Le Tissier scored 47 of the 48 penalties he attempted in his career. And yet he could never get a game for England...
I wonder how much time they spend practicing. I play at a scrub level, but our league has a lot of knock out comps through the preseason and then during the season. I have been in a penalty shoot out every season for 7 straight seasons before I stopped with an injury. In the 4 years I have been off, 2 seasons they had two pen shoot outs and 2 seasons they had one. My team practiced penalties weekly, and we lost 1 shoot out by 1 goal in 7 years. I wonder how often the pros seriously practice these. Auba and Laca have great technique but I wonder how much of that is "strikers instinct" and how much is practice.
I'm in favor of scrapping penalty shootouts to decide a match and go with the golden goal. I'd allow extra subs every 25 minutes of extra time and hell, maybe even both teams lose a player every 25 minutes to open the field up more.
There’s some skills with penalties but there’s a lot of luck involved too. Rule of thumb for England should be….never leave it to penalties to decide the game.
I know what you mean, but when I read that I said to myself "surely he got some England games". Wikipedia lists 8 games, and 0 goals. Surprisingly low compared to 443 games and 161 goals for Soton.
I knew he played for England a few times so when I said never I was speaking relatively. Imagine if England had Le Tissier for their penalty shootout against Argentina in 1998 instead of David Batty… Out of interest I just looked up good penalty records and Rickie Lambert of all people was a perfect 34/34 in his career. Never would have guessed that.
And he was injured and could barely walkz In typical, England mentality, not many are questioning why England decided to sit on a 1-0 lead for 65 minute. Southgate sucks.
I was too young (8) to appreciate Italia 90. I watched some matches with my dad, but wasn't that into it. It was watching Baggio drag an average Italy team to the final on one good leg in 1994 that really made me fall in love with footy. Baggio was so good. So graceful and effortless. Somewhere in my parents attic there's a box with a Baggio poster in it that was on my wall as a teenager. I need to get that and put it up again. It still irks me that probably the least interesting Brazil team ever assembled won in 1994. They were Romario, Bebeto, eight defenders and a goalkeeper. So many good Brazil teams and that one won? Funny old game.
WC 94 was a pretty boring tourney compared to 82. 86 and 90 '98 was quite good apart from the dud final Once you get to 2002 the quality was way down
Come on man, Dunga! Taffarel! Ronaldo! Cafu! Leonardo! sorry, for some reason these names have stuck in my head from my '94 world cup card collection.
Ronaldo doesn't count. He was a teenager and didn't even play. All I remember Leonardo for is fracturing Tab Ramos' skull with an elbow maneuver that would have been considered dirty in a street fight. Brazil got the job done in '94. They won. Kudos. I was just saying its ironic that so many exciting and talented Brazilian teams haven't won and that workman like and unspectacular team did.
England should seriously consider calling Big Daddy Wengz. This England team is stylistically similar to the invincibles, imo. Just need a goalkeeper and a Vieira.
dude, I know he didn't play. I was just amazed I could recall names of that team from '94 (I was 12) based solely on remembering the cards I collected.
Makes you a year younger than my second son, who got Dunga’s autograph on a paper napkin during a flight from Detroit to the San Francisco Bay Area, before their game with the U.S. The napkin disappeared a long time ago, as did the autograph he got from Roger Craig at a track meet where Craig’s daughter was a participant.
As an outsider, this is a fantastic idea. Having a Frenchman, and Wenger above all, win a title for England would be delicious.
Can’t blame the players Southgate decided the order after training % You know, with now crowd or pressure
If I was England manager I'd be forcing them to shoot penalties in really traumatic circumstances constantly. Wake them up with fireworks, run them around in the middle of the night Remember the Titans style, tase them as they're about to kick the ball, drop them into ice water if they don't make it. Like holy shit, the England sucking at penalties thing is so fcuking tired. Just go all out to make shooting penalties in a hostile stadium the *least* stressful situation they've shot penalties in.