Match Reaction vs Fulham 10/11/12

I dont actually agree with that. Loads of penalty takers are midfielders and have been traditionally.

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Originally Posted by ItsMe

Players with character decide who takes it and at the end of the day a striker should take them as it's their job to score, that's unless you have a regular taker with a proven record...which we don't.

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Originally Posted by Wiltord's Winner

why are we playing with 1 striker at home? we used to laugh at dalglish for doing it and we laugh at AVB for it but our own manager is doing the same thing.

we have podolski and walcott, 2 players who have openly admitted they want to play there, but we persist on playing with 1 up top. the game was crying out for a switch to 4-4-2.

how can people deny a change of manager won't make us better? our tactics are holding us back, isnt that obvious?

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I don't care what anyone says, I think he's a sh*t manager these days.......he's becoming worse by the season, at a smaller club with less resources like Fulham he'd be getting them relegated.

west brom are 4 points above us.

Arsenal :rose:

Players with character? that means we cant take them at all then
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QUOTE=ItsMe;217563]Players with character decide who takes it and at the end of the day a striker should take them as it's their job to score, that's unless you have a regular taker with a proven record...which we don't.[/QUOTE]

Giroud was on for a hat-trick when he passed up that pen? Fucking hell. We are fucked.

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Originally Posted by ollie the optimist

we dont have a regular taker because in reality we actually dont get penalties. 18 months since our last one at home in the league, we have no idea who is good at them and who isnt.

thats another point however, i think its stupid to moan about giroud not having bottle when today he was our best player, he scored two goals ffs, and people have been slagging him off for not scoring, so he scores two and plays really well so we slag him off instead.

we cant argue about it because we dont know, arteta could have said back off its mine today, in which case how can you blame giroud? arteta has been a great player for us since we signed him and always leads so why shouldnt he take it? he has character. lampard always takes chelsea penalties, yet i never heard you say drogba was weak and didnt have character?

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Every team should have a penalty take (not Aterta who not only never scores but has no history of taking any).

How can I say he has no bottle? Simple he's on a hattrick with a chance to get a 3rd and seal it and he bottles it and lets someone else take it......not striker with anything about them would do that.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Giroud was on for a hat-trick when he passed up that pen? Fucking hell. We are fucked.

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Exactly, you've got to be a real coward to pass up the opportunity of a hattrick because there's a bit of pressure.

Another bottled job.

Sh*t penalty by Arteta but he's not a striker at the end of the day, at least he had the guts to come forward and take it.

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Originally Posted by ItsMe

Every team should have a penalty take (not Aterta who not only never scores but has no history of taking any).

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He scored against QPR. He was Everton's main penalty taker.

*sighs*

Baffling series of events; most of all the decision for one of the worst players from the Spanish golden era, to step up and take such a crucial penalty when our lead striker was on a hat-tirick.

Giroud, what a pussy.

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Originally Posted by ItsMe

Every team should have a penalty take (not Aterta who not only never scores but has no history of taking any).

How can I say he has no bottle? Simple he's on a hattrick with a chance to get a 3rd and seal it and he bottles it and lets someone else take it......not striker with anything about them would do that.

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yes he's one a hatrick but hwat im saying is, what happens if vermealen as captain said to him, mikel is taking it, or mikel said it, they are in positions of authority over giroud as they are captain and vice captain and he cant argue with them. if it comes out that he bottled it then fine, you are right, but for now we dont know.

btw arteta does score a few goals for us, but dont worry about that.