[Albion] When should Neal Maupay take another Albion penalty?

[blue-shifted]

But if you know the players can do the job, but are getting gradually worse then surely you have to question the manager ?

Looking at this board, I think that many are

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Apart from the 28 goals for Brentford in 2018/2019, or 13 in 2017/2018... or....

Trossard has appeared in every age group at international level for Belgium. He was first called up to the full Belgian squad in 2018.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

He's a bit like Knockaert but not as good..

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[blue-shifted]

He's a bit like Knockaert but not as good..

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At least with Knocky you got ferocious tracking back, big game mentality and clear passion

Trossard didn't look like he wanted to play last night and hasn't looked like a team player for a good while.

If I were a defender i'd rather face Trossard

Clear ability, but we're not getting the best out of him

 

[John Byrnes Mullet]

Strikers love to score. Look at Vardy and Kane they can't wait to pick the ball up for a penalty. They know the ball is almost in the back of the net. Maupay Does not have that ability. I watched him closely last night and his movement is poor. A top striker would have be looking and have the confidence to score a few against Newport. If only our recruitement had been better.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Oh whoopee.....the man is not a decisive spot kick taker. He is clearly unsure what to do every kick he takes. I honestly believe he changes his mind in the run-up. One kick he dinks it. Then he smashes it down the middle. Then he tries to place it, giving every indication to the keeper where its going. Or, he sends the keeper the wrong way but puts it wide of an empty net. It mirrors his volatile personality. Up and down, all over the place. On top of his game, looking sharp. Next minute, can't control the ball, can't pass it and makes all the wrong decisions infront of goal. He needs to be taken off these duties. He is going to miss as many as he scores.

Agree with all of this, but . . . if Maupay doesn't take them who do we have that is any better? Pascal Gross took them for a while but his technique is equally alarming.

Surely it isn't too difficult to take a penalty, a free shot from 12 yards out, with just the goalkeeper to beat? it sounds simplistic perhaps, but just hit the ball hard and low and aim for the corner of the net, and unless the keeper gets very lucky you are going to succeed.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

At least with Knocky you got ferocious tracking back, big game mentality and clear passion

Trossard didn't look like he wanted to play last night and hasn't looked like a team player for a good while.

If I were a defender i'd rather face Trossard

Clear ability, but we're not getting the best out of him

Absolutely, for a player good enough to play a fair few games for one of the best footballing nations on earth, Belgium, we are getting very little out of him.

 

[blue-shifted]

Strikers love to score. Look at Vardy and Kane they can't wait to pick the ball up for a penalty. They know the ball is almost in the back of the net. Maupay Does not have that ability. I watched him closely last night and his movement is poor. A top striker would have be looking and have the confidence to score a few against Newport. If only our recruitement had been better.

Yes, first half Biss shoot at the keeper who gathers at the second attempt. Where the bloody hell are our strikers, against a lower league keeper on a ploughed field? They have to be following that one in.

Second half, we get in behind, (Trossard from memory) on the right, there's space in behind the defence to run into, where are the strikers making the run in the gaps? It's cut back into traffic and chance goes

It's not just Maupay, but he is the senior striker at this club and he just isn't making the movements that will get him goals.

He isn't right and we can't play him whilst like this.

Zeqiri and Tau against City please

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Last night, the winner was Webster's first ever penalty.


https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/news/1970151/webster-winning-spot-kick-was-my-first-penalty

 

[durrington gull]

Yes, first half Biss shoot at the keeper who gathers at the second attempt. Where the bloody hell are our strikers, against a lower league keeper on a ploughed field? They have to be following that one in.

Second half, we get in behind, (Trossard from memory) on the right, there's space in behind the defence to run into, where are the strikers making the run in the gaps? It's cut back into traffic and chance goes

It's not just Maupay, but he is the senior striker at this club and he just isn't making the movements that will get him goals.

He isn't right and we can't play him whilst like this.

Zeqiri and Tau against City please

Based on Zeqiri and Tau's cameo performances i think we're in real trouble - definitely no better than what we have already - worrying.......................

 

[Shooting Star]

Considering he's got about a 50% success rate, he can stop when somebody that's not Pascal Gross has a better success rate than him!

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Last night, the winner was Webster's first ever penalty.


https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/news/1970151/webster-winning-spot-kick-was-my-first-penalty

Well good on him for having the nerve to take it in such pressurised situation l say. It was a good one as well.

Hopefully a certain Neal Maupay was feeling a tad embarassed having witnessed it.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Of the ‘regular’ penalty takers in recent memory, he is by some distance the least convincing. His body shape and run-up channels which way he is shooting far too much, especially when going to the keepers right. I think I’m correct in saying most of the ones he’s scored have been hit down the middle. Probably his safest bet about now.

I wonder if Ben Roberts could work with him on it? He’d certainly be able to show him how to disguise them a bit more.

 

[blue-shifted]

Well good on him for having the nerve to take it in such pressurised situation l say. It was a good one as well.

Hopefully a certain Neal Maupay was feeling a tad embarassed having witnessed it.

If you're 6th or 7th up, I'd say you're told to take it rather than you volunteer to.

But he got it in, and that's what matters

 

[Mo Gosfield]

This. He gives me absolutely no confidence he will score from them.

And at the moment any confidence that he can pass to one of our players or shoot anywhere close to the goal either. What a sad decline this season. Not sure what the answer is but if we did have more strength in depth up front, maybe a rest from the side for a few weeks. He doesn't look right.

I agree with that but the man is an enigma.....apparently going through a terrible run of form....off his game...lacking confidence....and yet has scored 6 PL goals this season. Only 12 players have scored more and he is level with Mane, Watkins and Abraham and ahead of....Werner, Adams, Firmino, Barnes, Grealish and Jota, to name but a few.
Maintaining this rate will see him get 14 this season. Hard to believe, looking at him at the moment but entirely possible. I would take him off penalties but keep playing him and hope that his confidence and touch returns.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I agree with that but the man is an enigma.....apparently going through a terrible run of form....off his game...lacking confidence....and yet has scored 6 PL goals this season. Only 12 players have scored more and he is level with Mane, Watkins and Abraham and ahead of....Werner, Adams, Firmino, Barnes, Grealish and Jota, to name but a few.
Maintaining this rate will see him get 14 this season. Hard to believe, looking at him at the moment but entirely possible. I would take him off penalties but keep playing him and hope that his confidence and touch returns.

I agree that in no way is Neal Maupay a bad player, it's just that like all players from time to time, even the really great ones, he is going through a dire run on form, and has lost most of his confidence.

The only way of regaining it however, is to keep playing him, in the hope that sooner, rather than later, that form, and the confidence it waill inspire, returns. I fear that dropping him could only risk making the situation worse.

 

[amexer]

If you rely on placement you have to hit it harder then Maupay does otherwise odds are 50//50

 

[Pavilionaire]

Gross, Dunk, Propper, Lallana, Welbeck all ahead of him in the queue.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

When would you like to see this happen?

Maybe when you stop posting silly threads.
Surprised you did not ask if it was a point gained or lost.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

He's a bit like Knockaert but not as good..

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Technically probably better, but certainly not nearly as committed from what we've seen.