Picture the scene, next Saturday Burnley have a penalty against Reading and up steps

[shaolinpunk]

If Barnes scores the winner against Reading and secures us the playoffs he'll be popular with all of our fans - more than he ever was when he played here.

 

[jameswestport]

Acker has already pointed out that he scored 75% of his penalties.

75%s not that good though

 

[rcf0712]

Ashley Barnes. Would he score?

probably, along with putting a shift in he was quite good at penalties as I recall, it was scoring in free play that let him down (or was that the whole team).....

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

He'll miss a penalty and score an own goal

 

[studio150]

He will hit it mid height to the keepers right, which I'm sure the Reading keeper will be aware.

The more important question is that if Reading and the Albion are drawing and we get a last minute penalty does Oscar send on Lopez to secure the win to spend us into the play-offs or leave it to someone on the pitch to miss.

 

[atfc village]

Anyone would do to stop The Biscuits making the Play Offs.

 

[Acker79]

75%s not that good though

It's not bad, and certainly better than 'unconvincing'.

World cup penalty shoot outs have a 71% success rate dropping to 64% for the sudden death penalties (http://www.penaltyshootouts.co.uk/research.html)

Also:

For instance, of the 78 penalty kicks taken during the 2005–06 English Premier League season, 57 resulted in a goal, meaning almost 30% of the penalties were unsuccessful.

A German professor who has been studying penalty statistics in the German Bundesliga for 16 years found that 76% of all the penalties during those 16 years went in​

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty_kick#Scoring_statistics

For the premier league: http://www.myfootballfacts.com/Premier_League_Penalty_Statistics.html

For last four seasons (Barnes' 75% is from the last four seasons), 78% of penalties in the premier league were scored.


In the championship this season 72% of penalties have been scored, so far. http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/championship/elfmeter-detail/wettbewerb_GB2.html

 

[ofco8]

Ashley Barnes. Would he score?

In all our dreams!!!