Depends when the penalty is missed too. 3 nil up & it doesn’t make a lot of differencer. We seem to be missing them when scoring is significantly game-changing.
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75% apparently. Masses of statistics here:
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That isn’t surprising. It is a fairly easy skill.
A goal is 192 square feet.
There would be around 50 square foot within that where if the ball was struck at between 75% and 100% of a footballers potential power then the goalkeeper has virtually no chance.
So that is kicking the ball hard at a pretty big target. Basic stuff. Gordon’s pen last night was probably not at 75% of his available power, was close enough to the post but was either two foot too high or two foot too low (the cliche’d “nice height for a keeper”).
I would therefore say it is fair to call it a miss. I doubt he aims for that height (if he does, he shouldn’t!) ergo he missed his target whilst not applying enough power.
There’s a more skilful approach which is to take the keeper out altogether by shifting him or her out of the way with a hesitation or feint. I’d suggest this isn’t an approach for us just now! Let’s just get better at kicking a football hard and straight!
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Makes it worse if they practice a lot.!!! Maybe find somebody who can take a good one not the hairy fairy ones with the stuttering run up. A Stuart Pearce style, yes I know he missed a important one for England but bet he scored far more that 50%. Colin Taylor might not have been the worlds best pen taker but boy he frightened the life out of any keeper who had to face his pens LOL.
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I dare say that our penalty takers regularly knock in a much greater percentage during training.
It’s a whole kettle of fish different when you are a goal down in a real match.
Not sure why Gordon takes them, he doesn’t strike a good ball neither does he look comfortable.
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Still think that Cam Norman should be taking them…
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It’s also a skill that goalkeepers practice,so as well as having a go at Gordon praise the skill of the keepers,it’s not coincidence it’s a skill they learn.
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He was a typical head it kick it CB. Passing the ball to get moves started wasn’t really his thing so a reason why he didn’t last long at all under DS and someone like Downing came in to replace him.
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Think a big problem here is they’re practising penalties against Robbo in training! Saving them hasn’t exactly been a forte of his in his 4 years in the first team. Etheridge would save 2-3 a season which was a pretty good return.
Not sure what Rose is like v them, did he play in the Bristol Rovers paint pot shootout?
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Mad that Gordon and Ade aren’t out there every day purely from selfish point of view.
Knock in another 5 penalties and that would mean they’d be hitting 15 goals a season so would soon get a move higher up as Grigg did.
He must’ve scored 7-8 penalties in 12/13 just hitting the side netting from a short run up.
Think Guthrie will be next up if he’s on the pitch when next one is given.
I’m actually surprised more players don’t just shoot down the middle at crucial points in the game. A keeper will always get stick if they don’t dive and it just rolls into the corner so 99% of the time they will unless the run up is incredibly obvious.
And as Worsul correctly pointed out Deeney shots pretty much every penalty down the centre. Keepers are actually standing still now but still can’t save it as he blasts it with so much power.
It’s probably 80% if you take out Walsalls penalties 
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I’m sure you are absolutely right, but the fact is, we are way behind the average for successful pennos for reasons that are not obvious (although there are many opinions). And it has cost us a lot of points and, arguably, progress in some competitions.
Mind you, it doesn’t entirely explain why we have a habit of losing or dropping points to crap teams while having a half decent record against much better ones: that is a mysterious quirk. Just think if we had won against Sarfend, Stevenage and S■■■■horpe!
One season under Colin Lee, we had something like 17 penalties (including 2 shootouts) and scored 16.
I think the one we missed was v Blackburn in a shootout?
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League cup November 2002 Ian Roper own goal in the 105th minute took it to pens Darren Wrack missed his penalty in the shoot out we lost 5-4 against you guessed it Blackburn.There were 2 penalty’s in normal time too in that game Corrado Grabi for them and Aranalde for us followed by a goal from Zdrillic
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Always remember that game because it was Matt Jansen’s first senior game back after his motorcycle accident. Think he turned down a loan move to Walsall the following season and went to Cov instead.
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That must have been one of the best performances under Lee. The previous round was a win at Forest I think, which was another really good performance.
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Yep 2-1 win away at Forest Leitao and Junior for us David Johnson for them.
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That Blackburn game was the first away game I went to.
Back to current day though… one thing that’s been frustrating me the last few games is when we get towards the opposition box we seem to have to go through certain players (Holden, McDonald, Adebayo, Norman) and whoever has the ball will always look for a sideways pass to them instead of either playing a through ball themselves or just having a go. Even Guthrie gets I positions where he should have a shot and he goes for a sideways pass. It’s so rare that we have a shot from the edge of the box, surely it’s worth a go a few times a game, the keepers in league two aren’t that decent.
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