Well. I don’t this to be a total onslaught when it comes to Scott Parker and the way he handled things.
After all, we did manage to win the game so you can’t really be too critical of him, because the ends justified the means as we managed to pull off a shock 2-1 victory at the King Power Stadium against a Leicester City side that are flying high in the table.
But there is just one thing that has been looming over the game that has left me rather puzzled, and that’s the decision to keep Ivan Cavaleiro on penalty duty after his miss against Everton last time out, and more importantly why he was allowed to be given a second chance when the others were not.
Do you have confidence in Parker fixing the penalty situation?
Yes
No
I spoke a few days ago about how Parker needed to come up with that one designated penalty taker and stick with him, and it seems that he has done that by going back to Cavaleiro. But why does he get to have a second chance when Aleksandar Mitrovic and Ademola Lookman were not? Now Lookman is probably self-explanatory given the way he missed his, and Mitrovic wasn’t on the pitch to possibly be in contention (another matter entirely), I’m still not sure if this is the start of something new, or just a temporary solution.
What will be interesting to see is what happens if Cavaleiro misses another this season, or isn’t on the pitch for the next one, because I personally don’t think his place is 100% secure right now, and if we have to think on the fly to find the next taker.
That’s the problem right now, is we’re all left to guess what’s going on rather than knowing with any level of certainty who is going to be the man to step up and take the next kick.
What about you? What do you make of the penalty situation at Fulham right now?
On Sky, for the miss, the analysis was his run up means he can only hit one side of the goal – right as looking at it, and if he tries to go left, he will slip and fall over.
This success was right and high, the goalie also knowing the direction meant he was going the right way as well but the shot was to high to get. This is not a long term solution, he needs to straighten up his approach, opening the whole goal as a target.