Nige, Kasper, Dowd... i'm looking at you.

[Raj]

Kaspers positioning was the same as any other professional keeper in that situation. Seriously, the problem is that the wall makes it too easy to get the ball up, over and down.

nope...kaspers almost told ross where to hit it...ross even mentioned it himself on motd.

If kaspers doing that he has to expect the ball is going there...he didnt.

seriously how can anyone question this???

[st albans fox]

nope...kaspers almost told ross where to hit it...ross even mentioned it himself on motd.

If kaspers doing that he has to expect the ball is going there...he didnt.

seriously how can anyone question this???

How much further to the left do you want him to stand raj?

[Lookatthebluesky]

Kaspers positioning was the same as any other professional keeper in that situation. Seriously, the problem is that the wall makes it too easy to get the ball up, over and down.

 

Maybe he'd have been better off taking an amateur's position then because he was made to look somewhat amateurish by Wallace's strike (which didn't even have to be out of the top drawer to score).

 

In those positions, the defending team should still be favourites not to concede - the odds are with them for a save to be made, the wall to be hit or for the strike to be off-target. Kasper turned the odds in their favour in my view (maybe Wallace was talking bullsh...t then on MOTD) - he handed it to him on a plate to be honest.

 

I'll betcha he does not stand that far to one side when the next free kick is taken in that position. A yard to the left may well have been enough as I've said before - he was always going to try to curl it to Kasper's left as to go the other way with pace to the top corner is a far more difficult skill to achieve.

[Raj]

How much further to the left do you want him to stand raj?

enough so the free kick taker atleast has to questiin where to take his shot....is that too mych to ask in the last minute of a game when your 2-1up!!!!???

[st albans fox]

I'm not going to making any further comments on this free kick. I've watched it over and over with freeze frame.

1) it isn't well struck? Are you sure? It's gathering pace as it drops. It's as well struck as it could be to get up and down.

2) the wall is not set right re height in the middle and the way they jump is pathetic. Anyone of our taller players in the middle and jumping at the right time (is that difficult) will make contact with the shot.

3) as the ball leaves wallaces foot, Kasper has already begun to move to his left. He is only a pace away from the centre of his goal he has to commit his weight before the ball is hit or he won't give himself any chance to cover his left side. If he starts any further nearer the middle of the goal then he has no chance to see the taker approach the ball and once he commits his weight to the open side as he has to, an attempt anywhere near the right hand post does not have to be well struck to beat him.

If he had started nearer the middle and Wallace had stuck it the other side then you would really have gone town on him.

I have the blame laid

45% James' unnecessary challenge

45% wall (all aspects which does have something to do with Kasper)

10% kasper's starting position

Or 100%!the quality of wallaces technique

I was surprised that a semi pro keeper made the comments he did earlier.

[st albans fox]

enough so the free kick taker atleast has to questiin where to take his shot....is that too mych to ask in the last minute of a game when your 2-1up!!!!???

Good answer raj. Though you are taught to to play the odds. His position was textbook. The wall wasn't. End of. Seriously , that's defo my last comment

[Raj]

and my last comment is that if an exact repeat situation occurs i betcha kasper will move abit to the left.

the end.

ps...i do rate kasper and think hes a masdive asset to city and been tremendous for us...just fooked up yday...im sure he'd admit that himself

[dmayne7]

Think Kasper was probably that far right due to closeness of the free kick. If it was spanked his side he'd have very little time to react. The setting up of the wall was poor though and it didn't seem to jump, ball has skimmed Drinky's head.

 

Obviously Kasper could've done better but I'm glad you pointed out Drinkwater. I watched the highlights again this morning and the ball goes over his head/through where he was. He jumped in the wall but actually turned his head away/moved out of the way of the ball so since we're going to pull some stupid blame games, he should be in the firing line as well.

[Lookatthebluesky]

I was surprised that a semi pro keeper made the comments he did earlier.

 

That's probably why I only made it to semi-pro level then   (oh perhaps that and the fact that my father had not been one of the world's best keepers of recent years). Truth is that at 6ft 1, I too lacked a bit on the physical aspect of my game.

 

Either way, I'd have got bloody closer to it than Kasper did yesterday (and I'm now 51!)

[Raj]

was your dad spider kalac???!!!

[st albans fox]

That's probably why I only made it to semi-pro level then   (oh perhaps that and the fact that my father had not been one of the world's best keepers of recent years). Truth is that at 6ft 1, I too lacked a bit on the physical aspect of my game.

 

Either way, I'd have got bloody closer to it than Kasper did yesterday (and I'm now 51!)

Any chance of asking the old man his opinion? (I'm a year younger than you and I wouldn't have got near it either). tbh, given that there was no right footed player to dummy the kick, he could have stood a few feet to his left but then I doubt his movement left as the ball was struck would have been so committed and he would still have failed to get to it. he could have stood central but then it becomes a 'penalty' type scenario re which way will the taker place it and he would not see the ball till it came over the wall. I've often wondered if teams do exercises in training re different wall set ups and their effectiveness.

[Lookatthebluesky]

Just the mere presence of Schmeichel Snr in goal would have been enough to have Wallace quaking in his boots at the prospect of trying to beat him in the dying minutes!

 

I'd have backed Peter all day long with that effort - he'd have stuck a big mitt out and caught it one handed before unleashing the ball with a throw over the halfway line to release Vardy for a 1v1 who would then go on to score.

 

3-1 job done!