Ollie Watkins

[Risso]

Ouch.

[Monty]

[Somniloquism]

C'mon, even Watkins on his current form would have scored that tap-in.

[Risso]

Don't worry Monty, we all like and appreciate you. You are absolutely NOTHING like this fella, at all, no sir:

 

[Monty]

How dare you all, I've never been more offended in my life. I'm off to work (near the Rialto).

[Drummond]

From FotMob in Team of the Week.

Ollie Watkins returned to haunt his former club during midweek. The 28-year-old scored and assisted against an in-form Brentford side as Aston Villa returned to winning ways. The versatile attacker claimed a 9.0 FotMob rating having created two chances, completing 89% of his passes, winning one penalty and taking six shots for Unai Emery‘s side.

[Somniloquism]

As Morgan also scored and assisted, and had several shots, did he get a similar rating?

[jon collett]

One question

The stutter before taking the penalty. It makes me nervous anyway but is it not done to see which way the keeper is going to dive? And if so why did he still place it the side the keeper dived to?

[paul_e]

As Morgan also scored and assisted, and had several shots, did he get a similar rating?

8.4

[Risso]

I hope Ollie gets a bit more practice on pens if he's going to be the regular taker. I know the only thing that matters is if it goes in, but that was the worst penalty that just about crept in I've ever seen. He always seems to be properly shitting himself before he takes one.

[ChicagoLion]

One question

The stutter before taking the penalty. It makes me nervous anyway but is it not done to see which way the keeper is going to dive? And if so why did he still place it the side the keeper dived to?

Its a double bluff, I am going to put it exactly where you are diving, that will fool you.
The keeper was rightly gutted he didn't keep that out.

[Rigadon]

I was thinking just before he took the penalty: "just smash it".  I don't understand why players who aren't confident penalty takers don't do this more often.

[Drummond]

I hope Ollie gets a bit more practice on pens if he's going to be the regular taker. I know the only thing that matters is if it goes in, but that was the worst penalty that just about crept in I've ever seen. He always seems to be properly shitting himself before he takes one.

He hit it hard and low about a foot inside the post. It wasn't that bad. Hard enough that the keeper couldn't stop it. accurate enough that it couldn't be stopped.

[paul_e]

I was thinking just before he took the penalty: "just smash it".  I don't understand why players who aren't confident penalty takers don't do this more often.

Because just smashing it generally means putting it closer to the keeper and usually at a nice height. Even if he doesn't take lots in games he'll still take them in training and will know that going for the corners with a little less power works for him more often than just whacking it.

What I don't understand is why more players don't place it into the top corners. It's technically more difficult but with nothing else to do but train I'd like to think that, if I were the main penalty taker or in with a decent chance of having to take one, I'd take a bit of time practising every week. If nothing else it must surely help with your finishing to be able to nail one into the top corner on demand.

[Meanwood Villa]

Exactly Paul, the El Ghazi technique.

It was a poor penalty the other night.