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Who should be our third choice penalty taker (after Drogba and Lampard)?  

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  1. 1. Who should take our spot-kicks? (Remember good penalty takers such as Kalou and Malouda aren't always on the pitch...)



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Why is this so hard to understand? The coach picked two penalty takers for the game. Neither of them were Torres. It just so happened that one of them missed. Torres isn't the best of penalty takers and he hasn't taken them for a very long time. The best penalty kickers should take them for the team. PKs are precious, they're not to be arbitrarily bandied about.

I'm not saying media criticism should affect what Torres does on the pitch. I'm saying whatever he does, there will be criticism of outlandish proportions. It's really damned he does, damned if he doesn't. If he missed the PK instead of Luiz, you don't think there would be moans about how Chelsea allowed a rusty (in terms of PKs) striker take the kick? Followed by stories about kow-towing to his ego, helping and failing miserably to buffer his fragile confidence, etc. There was a story in the Daily Fail about how Chelsea were going out of their way to coddle their Spanish superstar by letting him sit next to Juan Mata in the dressing room. This was for the simple matter of Torres having his locker next to Mata's. This was a "newsworthy" story.

I personally couldn't give a Fuck what the daily mail say and I never found it difficult to understand (whatever you meant with that) the point I'm making is that players change their minds on the pitch and allow others to try their luck for whatever reason (maka v charlton) and other players step up, can't see why he wouldnt want it.....don't understand what's so difficult to understand ;)
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We don't have any good penalty takers in the squad. Lampard's missed far too many lately and so has Mata, haven't seen others taking them often enough, so can't decide. Yeah, we should probably sign a German.. and I'm not joking, penalties are too important to fuck up so easily.

But when he's playing - Drogba

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You can't 'suggest' penalty takers. The taker must be 100% confident to do so, ideally they shouldn't be selected out of a pool the manager should ask (one-on-one) if said person wants that role.

Torres was well within his rights to say 'no', if Mata was not confident it should've been given to the next assigned person.

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