Given we have McGregor and Jak who are both good at saving penalties, could we take advantage of it ahead of a shootout to throw the opposition a bit as well? Assuming one started the game, and the other was on the bench, if we get to the 119th minute level and with a sub left there's nothing to stop us using our 3rd sub to take off an outfield player and bring on our sub keeper as an outfield player. Once the shootout starts you're not allowed to make any more subs, but you must be allowed to change your keeper for another player on the pitch, because otherwise what would happen if he got stretchered off after trying to save the first pen? Would we be allowed to keep randomly swapping which of them was in goal during the shootout? As long as we knew the plan in advance and the 2 keepers were comfrotable with it there'd be no negative effects on our players in the shootout, but the unusualness of the situation could put off the opposition players a bit.
If anything it'd give the opposition confidence that our keeper isn't settled in the rhythm of the shoot out. It's a daft idea. If it's a long shoot out we have one less outfield player to take a penalty.
Our specialist penalty saver should be starting and finishing the full game! His all round ability and demeanour is better than the player currently getting picked to start league games ahead of him!
I love the conclusion "the unusualness of the situation could put them off a bit". I feel like if that's the aim, we could achieve it with something less elaborate.
My memory's **** but was it steau Bucharest who played for penalties from the first minute of a European cup final? We should do that. Or was it a Yugoslavian team?
Your post started off credible. Then wavered a little into 'Hmmm, that's a little unusual' territory Then finished up as 'I'll have a pint of what he's had'.
I think changing your keeper right before penalties whether specialist in penalty stopping or not it will get into the heads of some of the opposition
So you sub off the worst penalty taker from the outfield players, and it only serves as a disadvantage if that **** penalty taker is still better at taking penalties than the keeper you bring on. You sometimes see teams subbing players to bring on better penalty takers ahead of a shootout if they've got any subs left, and I'm sure I saw a game before where a keeper for keeper sub was made because the sub had a good record with penalties. It's not that outlandish to think we could try something to mess with the opposing players' heads as well. I'm still curious what a ref would do if a team formed an arced wall for freekicks, where all the players were 10 yards from the ball, not just the middle player.
Last WC, Van Gaal subbed the keeper on 119 mins and brought on Tim Krul. Holland won the penalty shoot-out. Only because Krul was a prize ****. He should have been booked for his antics. I'm not aware of anything in the rules that a team has to nominate a goalkeeper for penalties - maybe someone could look up the laws of the game.
Both Steaua Bucharest and Red Star Belgrade won their European Cups on penalties after a 0-0, against Barcelona and Marseille respectively. In the Steaua one, the Bucharest keeper went full Jakupovic and saved FOUR penalties, winning the shootout 2-0.
