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The Brum guy appeared to get the ball.

Blackburn one was soft.

 

But as someone mentioned last week, if you run at Championship defenders with the pace we have, it is quite likely to end in a penalty.

Posted

I can understand why a few people think they're soft, Wigan, Blackburn, etc. But there's contact in all of them. 

 

It's just the pace of the players, De Laet, Vardy, Dyer all in the box, if you're a defender you have to get it perfect if you dont make contact with one of those. 

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A few of them were quite soft IMO but the majority were stone-wallers.

 

Birmingham and Blackburn were both 50/50 and I think Drinkwater's definitely intended to go down at the Forest one.

 

Notice how nearly every one of them is at home?

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I think Drinkwater looks for it in the one against Forest.

 

Also think that the one against Birmingham is a decent tackle.

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A few of them were quite soft IMO but the majority were stone-wallers.

 

Birmingham and Blackburn were both 50/50 and I think Drinkwater's definitely intended to go down at the Forest one.

 

Notice how nearly every one of them is at home?

 

Birmingham was more like 20/80! As AKCJ says above, it looked a decent tackle.

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Birmingham ref's got it wrong, good tackle

 

Blackburn I can understand why some would say soft as there is clear contact with the ball but for me their there's a unneeded scissor sort of action after the initial contact  from Tommy Spurs that brings De Laet down and if he doesn't do that there's every chance Richie stays on his feet and could of got his cross in.

 

I actually think Drinkwater has sold the Forest one to the ref, undoubtedly there is contact from Vaughn but nowhere near enough to force Drinkwater to his feet, not that it mattered.

 

Burnley is just stupidity on their half, hard to say it's not a penalty  but it's a needless challenge on Vardy, he's lost control of the ball. 

 

Knockaert dives, I guess Cummings has given him the opportunity to do so buy putting his arms up when he's clearly done but there's no way that was enough to bring him down.

 

The two most interesting things I took from that video were nothing to do with was it/wasn't it a spot kick though. The body language and facial expressions of David Nugent before each spot kick is fascinating from a Psychology point of view.  Compare the Wigan penalty when we were already a goal up where he stops to have a little rhye smile at Scott Carson for not standing in the middle of his goal, to the Forest miss when we really needed a goal in a big game, he really doesn't look like he wants to there at all, and incidentally despite dispatching several great penalties into the roof of the net pre Forest, he's not tried to hit the top of the goal since skying it against them.

 

Secondly, a lot of Vardy's penalties are purely about getting to the ball first and not worrying about whether or not he's going to run the ball out of play after, it's like he knows when a rash challenge is coming and the way he play's it is all about drawing that and getting a penalty from it, and it's really quite clever. There's Saturday, Derby, Burnley, one against the keeper and one other where I think if there's no challenge Vardy will simply run the ball into nonthreatening area or even in some cases out for a GK, but he get's there first draws the challenge knocks the ball 10 yards in front of him and still wins the pen.

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Birmingham one was harsh, he probably got the ball.

Blackburn one could have gone either way I suppose, depends on whether you think he takes the ball or the man first.

The Reading one was a bit soft, David Speedie- esque.

The Forest one there is contact but Drinky goes down very easily.

 

Other than that they can't complain.

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We should post that video on the Burnley forum - would soon shut them up! Birmingham and Reading I'd say were soft, Drinky was looking for the Forest one, but other than that, I don't really see how they can have any complaints. 

 

Indeed, in about half of them there weren't even complaints from the opposition players!

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Would have been interesting if Paul had taken all of our penalties to see how many he would have scored and also to have a defender that high in the scoring charts.

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Vardy must have a little chuckle to himself every time he wins a penalty. I bet he can't believe how dense defenders are for keep falling for it.

 

If Middlesbrough had done any research on him at at all they'd have known what was coming yesterday. He's just waiting for some idiot to dive in.

 

He's a genus at committing players into fouls.

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Birmingham one was harsh, he probably got the ball.

Blackburn one could have gone either way I suppose, depends on whether you think he takes the ball or the man first.

The Reading one was a bit soft, David Speedie- esque.

The Forest one there is contact but Drinky goes down very easily.

Other than that they can't complain.

Strange that you say the Blackburn one could have gone either way. In a different thread I said it was very soft and you told me to "come off it he went through the back of Vardy"

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Vardy must have a little chuckle to himself every time he wins a penalty. I bet he can't believe how dense defenders are for keep falling for it.

If Middlesbrough had done any research on him at at all they'd have known what was coming yesterday. He's just waiting for some idiot to dive in.

He's a genus at committing players into fouls.

Agreed. He shifts the ball just at the right moment
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Agreed. He shifts the ball just at the right moment

 

It's not even shifting,

 

What he does is he charges towards the ball, makes sure he gets there first, doesn't care where the ball's going after which is where it really works if you ask me, most players trying to take control of the ball would have to slow down and would get tackled, after which he leaves his leg into to be caught, penalty, very clever

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Strange that you say the Blackburn one could have gone either way. In a different thread I said it was very soft and you told me to "come off it he went through the back of Vardy"

 

Yeh well having seen it again it could have  gone either way.

 

You do follow my posts pretty closely though I notice.

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It's not even shifting,

 

What he does is he charges towards the ball, makes sure he gets there first, doesn't care where the ball's going after which is where it really works if you ask me, most players trying to take control of the ball would have to slow down and would get tackled, after which he leaves his leg into to be caught, penalty, very clever

That's a good point, I hadn't looked at it like that before. He literally just legs it to the ball and if the defenders didn't tackle him he would just end up straight out of play and fans would wonder wtf he was doing. He deserves a lot of credit for what he is doing as he is specifically trying to win penalties and in the main he is doing so fairly.

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Yeh well having seen it again it could have gone either way.

You do follow my posts pretty closely though I notice.

Don't flatter yourself fella. I made a comment 2 weeks ago that I thought it was soft you disagreed then 2 weeks later you say it could have gone either way. It's hardly as if I've dragged up a post of yours from a year or two ago.

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The simple reason we get penalties is because we've got smallish pacey lads up front who play with the ball at their feet in the box.Most sides play to a big forward with wingers crossing the ball in. You're hardly ever going to get a penalty awarded with that style of play because it becomes a 50-50 ball and it's more likely going to be a foul for the defender.

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That's a good point, I hadn't looked at it like that before. He literally just legs it to the ball and if the defenders didn't tackle him he would just end up straight out of play and fans would wonder wtf he was doing. He deserves a lot of credit for what he is doing as he is specifically trying to win penalties and in the main he is doing so fairly.

 

Indeed, without going into the deep theory of it all I think it's something he'd of learnt to do lower down, and has found it works against players playing at this level as they expect a striker to try and remain in control of the ball at all times in the final third.

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Wycombe - YES

Birmingham - NO

Carlisle - YES

Wigan - Probably NO

Blackburn - NO

Blackpool - NO

Barnsley - YES

Yeovil - Can't tell

Forest - NO

Burnley - YES

Reading - NO

Bolton - YES

Derby - YES

Middlesbrough - YES

 

I make that 6 penalties we've been awarded that shouldn't have been.

 

Watching that, I can really see why QPR and Burnley think we're a favoured team!

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