General Premier League Thread 2023-24 Mod Note in op 27/6/23 And 21/05/24

Not there yet but he is close. He could pass out these players yet this season.

9 penalties from 20 PL goals is 45% of all Palmer's goals being penalties.

Bruno Fernandes first 18 months saw him score 13 penalties (4+9) from his first 26 PL goals (50%) after arriving in January.

From memory, the highest number of penalties scored, relevant to the most number of goals overall would be Andy Johnson who scored 11 penalties to make up his 21 PL goals in 2004/2005. That's just over 52%.

Obviously you'll have some players who scored 7 or 8 in a season but that might be their total amount so it'd not really relevant to this. Is there anyone higher than Johnson?

Everton are in a tailspin.

I don't get the asterisking goal totals for penalties. Its a skill in its own way.

There's more time to overthink, less for instinct. No momentum to follow through on, you need to generate that power yourself. All the attention is on the taker. A strong mentality is needed. You could be up against a keeper who's beens studying your technique and history.

Its definitely not as straightforward as some people make it out to be. Even the penalty takers with the best success rates have missed a few.

Any keeper worth its salt saves the first goal and then it’s a different game potentially

That's as embarrassing as it gets. It's literally something you'd see in a primary school lunchtime kick about. Not a good look for Poch either does he have any control over these players?

Modern footballers, eh!

To be fair, the way goal bonuses go at footy clubs there days, scoring that could have been worth 50k extra this week to one of them.

Gallagher is the captain. He did grab the ball and hand it to Palmer to be fair to him.

I was surprised to see T.Silva with all his experience seemingly being in favour of Madueke taking the penalty before Gallagher got involved. I'd have expected him to have the cop on to take the ball for the designated penalty taken.

It’s still a shot at goal where something like 77% of them are scored (and often not of the players own creation)

Looks great on paper but I'd have serious doubts about it in reality.

England wasted their last golden generation by trying to fit names onto a team sheet.

The midfield needs to be Rice, Mainoo and Bellingham.

If they don't balance the middle correctly it won't matter who's on the pitch

Why would you pull Bellingham back deeper when he's been so good further up the pitch for Real this season?

Bellingham is the man they need to build around in the midfield. Rice and Mainoo seem to be the best pairing on form to do that.

Gallagher will be good backup

Dele said it best last night. Where were the Chelsea players queuing up when they had a last minute penalty to draw with City a while back

Bellingham is wasted back deeper, he can do it well true, but comfortably his best is as a 10.

Mainoo/Gallagher should be partnering Rice.