Penalty specialists ?

lysglimt

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Has there ever been a team with so many potential penalty-takers as Man United have ?

Marcus Rashford, Bruno, Paul Pogba, Juan Mata, Anthony Martial, Jesse Lingard, Mason Greenwood, Edinson Cavani and Alex Telles
You can even add Ighalo who was the penalty taker for his club in China.

And I even kind of expect both Matic and v d Beek to be decent at penalties

10 players who have taken penalties in competitive football - we really should do well at penalty shoot-outs
 

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We stocked up on set piece takers too in our previous generation. We had Young who took them at Villa, Mata was Chelsea's, Rooney was ours
 

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Only really Bruno and Rashford have excellent conversion rates.
 

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Pogba’s penalty record is atrocious.

Jesse is only 1 for 2.

Mason has only scored 1 and that’s after missing 2 for the u18s and not being allowed to take them anymore.
 

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Since when we had many?

Bruno is the only specialist, ridiculous great conversion rate.
Rashford is a very good taker, but not a specialist. 2nd best conversion.

Not sure about Telles and Cavani.... their previous leagues levels may have something to do with their high conversion. Bruno in fact prove it again once he's here in EPL and europe.
 

Hanky panky

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Bruno should be a regular penalty taker and Rashford second choice. Others should take it only in cases like yesterday. Pogba is poor in penalties, you can see it even before he kicks. Looks really insecure.