Leeds United: Who should be Leeds’ penalty taker?
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00:00Now, in terms of pressure, another form of pressure of football, of course, is taking
00:04penalties, which is not something that Leeds did very well at the weekend.
00:07No.
00:08Pascal Stroik, of course, took and missed against Cardiff, even though he of course
00:13had scored for Leeds before in a penalty incident, but that's an interesting one, isn't it?
00:19Because of course, Pascal Stroik is not an attacking player, so to speak.
00:23So why is it that he is on penalties and should it not be someone else?
00:29Well, it might be an old-fashioned way to look at it, but I would always say that strikers
00:33or attackers should be on penalties.
00:35I mean, that might be a sort of narrow-minded way to look at it, but it's the way I see
00:38it.
00:39And if I was a striker or a forward or a winger playing for any team, Leeds United or anybody,
00:43then I'd be putting my hand up and saying, I want to take these penalties.
00:45And that's not to say that the players have got on the team aren't, but that's just the
00:49way I'd look at it.
00:50And the Pascal penalty taker thing basically sends back to the Boxing Day game at Preston,
00:56which obviously the loss, I remember being there and Pascal stepping up for that penalty.
01:00And Daniel Farke was asked about afterwards what the situation was there, because it's
01:03fair to say eyebrows were raised when he stepped up to take it as a centre-back.
01:06Very good player, but a centre-back and definitely not a striker.
01:09And that was basically said because Somerville and Peru weren't on the pitch, who were the
01:13main two penalty takers.
01:15And Pascal was sort of seen as the number three penalty taker, if you like.
01:18And he did convert it and converted it very well.
01:21And then obviously, that sort of stayed in the memory for a little bit and then you forget
01:24about it.
01:25And then obviously, the winner penalty against Portsmouth on the first day of the season
01:27and who steps up?
01:28Pascal Stroik.
01:29And everybody's thinking, oh, yeah, of course, he's on penalties at the moment.
01:32And again, converted it.
01:33And I guess it's one of those things where if it ain't broke, you don't fix it.
01:36So that's why he took it again at the weekend, even though there were other attackers on
01:40the pitch.
01:41But obviously, let's not beat around the bush, it wasn't a very good penalty.
01:44I mean, it's fine if you stroke it down the middle and the keeper dies out the way, but
01:47he saved it with his legs and stuff.
01:48And it just wasn't a convincing penalty, was it?
01:51I mean, I always want to see penalties rocketed into the bottom left or bottom right corner
01:55or top corner Kane style, you know, that's the way it should be.
01:57Top corner for me.
01:58I always...
01:59Yeah.
02:00I know it's a bit more risky, but you get in the top corner, no keeper saving that.
02:04That's it.
02:05That's it.
02:06A hundred percent.
02:07And it certainly wasn't that.
02:08So, I mean, it'd be two things.
02:09It'd be interesting to see who takes the next one now that he's missed that.
02:12The other thing you probably should say is that I think it's fair to say that Peru would
02:15be ahead of him in the penalties, you know, penalty takers' order.
02:20He was still on the bench at the time.
02:21Bamford certainly would be as well, though his record's not been great from of late,
02:25to say the least.
02:26And the other thing I would say is that Mateo Joseph, obviously, we keep talking about him
02:30being a sort of young striker making his way, which he still is, obviously, but, you know,
02:34like end of the day, he's going to want to score goals and we're all hoping this is his
02:39sort of real breakthrough season.
02:41So if I was him, and I'm sure he probably is already, I'd be putting my hand up and
02:44saying, you know, I want to be first choice penalty taker and there's nothing to suggest
02:47that he can't be a good penalty taker.
02:48So he'd be the obvious one because, at the moment, he seems like the first choice striker.
02:53Obviously, Bamford's not fit and why he's just come back and Peru, you know, doing well
02:57off the bench.
02:58But whether Farkeh can get them both on the team remains to be seen.
03:02But it seems fair to say that Joseph, you know, such an exciting young player, will
03:06be always in the team, it seems now, it seems that way.
03:09So I don't see why he can't be first choice penalty taker.
03:11Maybe he will be, you know, maybe they get one in the next game and he takes them.
03:14But yeah, it's an interesting one, really.
03:15I mean, thankfully, it didn't matter because there's still one anyway, but obviously, it
03:19would have been galling had they missed that, had Pascal's penalty been saved and then Cardiff
03:22went up the other end and equalised and got a 1-1 draw.
03:25You know, I mean, everybody would have been absolutely gutted by it.
03:27So thankfully, that wasn't the case and obviously, then Peru got the second goal.
03:31But the other interesting thing that Daniel Farkeh said after it was, was not so much
03:34about who was taking the penalties, because I think he said, you know, you can forgive
03:37everybody a penalty miss, which you can, and that makes me wonder if Pascal will take the
03:41next one again.
03:42It remains to be seen.
03:43He's obviously reasonably good at it than usually.
03:46But the other thing he said was that he was disappointed in terms of, like, no-one following
03:49it up, basically.
03:50And Farkeh, obviously, an ex-striker himself, and obviously, it was saved, but the ball
03:53was still there for a rebound as such.
03:56And I think his big quirk was that no-one was, sort of, like, charging in at a million
03:59miles an hour for a rebound, which I think was probably, sort of, like, quite, sort of,
04:03like, reflective of Leeds just not being ruthless in this at the moment, and not being ruthless
04:07in this at the moment and taking the chances.
04:09So that's worth looking into, watch.
04:10So maybe the next time they come, expect people to be swarming into the box after it
04:14for a rebound.
04:15That should be the case.
04:16So, yeah, bottom line is, I think strikers should take penalties.
04:18I think most strikers are wingers.
04:20I think most people would agree with that.
04:21And Joseph seems like the obvious one to me.
04:23Ramazani, again, like, we've talked about him already.
04:25I don't see why, you know, he's a flair player who, he almost seems already like he's got
04:31that, sort of, Somerville swagger about him a little bit, you know, where he can, sort
04:33of, like, be confident and step up to the plate, and he's not scared of pressure.
04:37And I could see him being quite a good penalty taker as well.
04:39So he's another option.
04:41He's got loads of attacking players' leads.
04:42So he shouldn't be short of options.
04:43And, yeah, they got away with that one, obviously, but they need to make sure that they get the
04:46next one right, because next time it could well be crucial.
04:50And often the worry is with perhaps with flair players, sometimes I think they tend to overcomplicate
04:54penalties a little bit, you know, all the run-ups and all the stuttering and things.
04:58Just go and put your foot through it, man.
05:00Just go and be like...
05:01Yeah.
05:02Yeah.
05:03Yeah.
05:04Just hammer it in.
05:05Julian Dick style or something.
05:06You know, try and...
05:07I don't know.
05:08Just...
05:09Try a Penenka or something.
05:10Yeah.
05:11I was going to say.
05:12I'll just...
05:13Yeah.
05:14Just don't complicate it.
05:15Just literally, like...
05:16To me, you shouldn't...
05:17As someone who's taken a penalty, you should score a penalty.
05:18I mean, it's...
05:19If you've missed it, you've failed, because let's be honest, you've got...
05:20You're from 12 yards out.
05:21You've got no...
05:2212 yards.
05:23Keep it to eight.
05:24Yeah.
05:25Definitely.
05:26Definitely.
05:27You shouldn't...
05:28And I think that's right.
05:29And I think that's the other thing with strikers as well, because it's like...
05:31I mean, it's not just about scoring goals that forward players are judged on.
05:32Obviously, you know, it's assists and the all-round gameplay and everything.
05:33And Bamford's a classic example of that, because when you take him out of the team,
05:34obviously, he leads...
05:35You know, he did miss his hold-up play.
05:36Obviously, still do to a degree.
05:37But Joseph is becoming very, very good at it himself.
05:38So, you're not just judged on that.
05:39But at the end of the day, a lot of it is down to figures.
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