Penalties

[Steve 10,227]

Why do we continue to fail in these penalty shoot outs?

We won our first one in a very long time in the community shield at the start of this season.

• Oct 2005
  Carling Cup, third-round: Chelsea 1 Charlton 1 (lost 5-4 on pens)
• May 2007
  Champions Legue, semi-final: Liverpool 1 Chelsea 0 (1-1 agg, lost 4-1 on pens)
• Aug 2007
  Community Shield: Chelsea 1 Man Utd 1 (lost 3-0 on pens)
• May 2008
  Champions League final: Man Utd 1 Chelsea 1 (lost 6-5 on pens)
• Nov 2008
  Carling Cup, fourth round: Chelsea 1 Burnley 1 (lost 5-4 on pens)
• Aug 2009
  Community Shield: Chelsea 2 Man Utd 2 (WON 4-1 on pens)
• Dec 2009
  Carling Cup, quarter-final: Blackburn 3 Chelsea 3 (lost 4-3 on pens)

What do we do wrong? Discuss?

Edited December 3, 2009 by Steve.

[blue_army 2]

As soon as it goes to pens i expect us to loose now ... 1 win in 11 odd years what more can you expect and i have been at every shoot out we have had in that time

[Laylabelle 9,381]

We have little luck simple as...but hey we won that Man U one so we won one...and we'll win another..in 11 years

[Rambo 1,729]

I guess it's the just pressure? We have such good penalty takers that it gets to our head.

[flamiejamie 0]

By that statistic we have four more penalties to lose before we win another. Hopefully that win will fall at a special moment in the Champions League. What a shame. We have Ballack, Drogba, Lampard... do either of these guys ever miss? Although Ballack missed yesterday. It's just our lot in life!

[Term-X 7,891]

as soon as kakuta stepped up to take that peno i knew he would miss.

[Steve 10,227]

Does anyone think cech can be at fault sometimes aswell?

Before our last few penalty shoot outs he hardly ever saved a penalty, maybe he has been working on reading the player.

[warnie_666 1,081]

Cudicini FTW...Penalty KING!!!! :blue scalf:

50% success rate.

Edited December 4, 2009 by warnie_666

[Aesthetic Relic 301]

Although penalty taking is a skill, there's a fair bit of luck involved too.

I'm not that fussed on how many we've lost in the past, the most important thing is the next one. How many of you thought Ballack would miss his penalty ?

Its just one of those things. If its not right in the corner the keeper always has a chance of saving it.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

At the end of the day, that save from Ballack by Robinson was absolutely outstanding.

[Shane 2,275]

as soon as kakuta stepped up to take that peno i knew he would miss.

You should be a physic

[Laylabelle 9,381]

But sometimes you can tell whose gana miss/score.The way they walk up to it and all

Yeh I remember saying against Burnley we'll be ok Carlo good at saving..then we went out..but he did make a save we just took them kinda shit..as usual

[Ray. 217]

Does anyone think cech can be at fault sometimes aswell?

Before our last few penalty shoot outs he hardly ever saved a penalty, maybe he has been working on reading the player.

I'm sure I read somewhere I think it was in one of the matchday programmes an interview with Cech and it said something about him reading players and in general how he mentally prepares for a game. I certainly can't fault him at all, from what i've seen so far this season.

Edited December 4, 2009 by Blueray

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Does anyone think cech can be at fault sometimes aswell?

Before our last few penalty shoot outs he hardly ever saved a penalty, maybe he has been working on reading the player.

No.

[5354 204]

Now this teach us a lesson to study all the PK takers of the opposite team in Cup matches as well as CL Cups.

[Steve 10,227]

No.

Disagree, explain your answer, because most of the penalty shoot outs cech never even dived the right way for most of the penalties.

[Milan 17,859]

What a week, Ballack and Lampard both missed

[Term-X 7,891]

we need to hire a hypnotist!