almunia penalty stopper

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

who was surprised last night when clown-like almnunia started saving penalties!?

1st nearly saved


2nd one he saved ''illegally'' and he almost got the retake.

3rd/4th saved well.

i was truely shocked. i bet everyone was thinking..especially with kenny in form..that penalties on there home ground looked like a really great chance for united to get through. what a strange yet magnificent game.

 

[Yorkie]

Kenny did a couple of amazing saves against West Ham in the previous round.

He only dived to his left last night and as he was recovering from an injury I wonder if that was the reason.

Two good goalkeepers in the match.

 

[Scarface]

Not surprised. As the commentator said, he is a good shot stopper, its just his decision making in open play that let him down sometimes. Not a lot wrong with the retaken pen, was only a foot or so off his line. Kenny had a dodgy right hip and went off before extra time and pens possibly for painkilling injections but even so didnt look like he wanted to dive that way. He kept feinting to his right to make them go to his left but it looked like they knew this and targetted it.

 

[D'Angelo Saxon]

Does anyone else think that the 'keepers must stay on their line' rule is a joke? I think refs should use some discretion when they're asking for penalties to be retaken. Perhaps allow keepers to move half a yard off their lines as the striker starts his run up? Just a thought....

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Does anyone else think that the 'keepers must stay on their line' rule is a joke? I think refs should use some discretion when they're asking for penalties to be retaken. Perhaps allow keepers to move half a yard off their lines as the striker starts his run up? Just a thought....

its very hard to keep tabs on it really. i think it was good to seyt a marker on a live game by making them retake it...though at the time i didnt think so!

you naturally have to dive slightly forwards though(not much) and i imagine if you stayed completly on your line and tried to save a shot in the corner the keeper would hit the post! so i think its just going to come down to a sensible judgement by the lino and hopefully will put an end tro some of the appaling encroachment off the line by keepers like van der sar!

 

[Yorkie]

You would then need a marker on the pitch for the half a yard. to make sure they don't take more than that.

They are allowed to move sideways but a penalty should give the striker an advantage not the keeper.

 

[Seasider]

remember ben roberts last season i think wrexham at home - stodd a yard behind the line so he could step foward onto the line as the penalty was taken, he saved it as he had the foward movement keepers like to make, suprised not more keepers try this.

 

[Seagullible]

remember ben roberts last season i think wrexham at home - stodd a yard behind the line so he could step foward onto the line as the penalty was taken, he saved it as he had the foward movement keepers like to make, suprised not more keepers try this.

some of us do

 

[perseus]

Looked like a Shilton !

Still, it will not enable Arsenal to get the goals back against Bayern Munich. The rest of the Arsenal team looked a bit lightweight on the day.

I am not sure why Sheffield United signed Danny Cullip?

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I am not sure why Sheffield United signed Danny Cullip?

to conceed less goals and to STAMP on 17 yr olds heads.....

 

[ManxSeagull]

I thought his feet were pretty much on the line as the penalty was struck, but his upper body was starting to move forward.

All three were good saves

 

[Bad Ash]

I am not sure why Sheffield United signed Danny Cullip?

That's a rather random comment.

I like a nice bit of Blue Stilton.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Something of an oversight by Warnock as far as I could see - I can understand putting an injured Kenny in for the game itself, his experience, handling ability etc. necessary, but for the penalties, when you need an agile keeper, would it not have been better to put Phil Jagielka in goal?

Arsenal noted his injury, and simply slotted every pen to his dodgy right side.

 

[Stinky Kat]

Yep Arsen Wenger did his homework on Kenny. Still dislike the moaning toerag though (wenger that is).

Kenny on the other hand makes me laugh I remember him being sent off at withdean for Bury for swearing or something, didnt he call zamora a vile and disgusting name?

 

[Yorkie]

Danny was very much part of the first match, involved with everything. A goal disallowed (which shouldn't have been) and his shot handled which led to the equalising penalty.

I think if he hadn't been suspended last night the Blades would have won.