I don't blame him for not scoring his, he's a keeper. But his attempts to save basically all 11 of them was laughable. If it wasn't a serious shootout I probably would have laughed, it was a comically poor effort.
DDG won't save a single pen
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No ones saying the result is DDG’s fault, in 120 minutes we couldn’t put a very average side away. I think most are angry with Ole because you could see this coming a mile away.
Cech was fantastic in Munich. Iirc went the right way for every pen he faced including the one he saved during the game.
Wow, his technique for saving pens absolutely terrible, commit early and topple over to the side.
that may be the worst I’ve ever seen at the top level.
that may be the worst I’ve ever seen at the top level.
Would rather have had Lee Grant in goals for the penalties. Every time a Villarreal player stepped up to take one, I just had no confidence that DDG was going to save it.
You have to laugh really. We have two goalkeepers on the bench. Plus Romero not even here. But the best paid keeper in the world is left on and manages to save 0/11. Chances are even Grant would have saved one.
He has a phobia for saving penalties
Still don’t understand why Ole didn’t sub him for Hendo in the last few mins
Still don’t understand why Ole didn’t sub him for Hendo in the last few mins
That would take some real guts and it will upset DDG, was never going to happen, it's not Ole's style.
They just looked more saveable because he actually managed to get close to them.
He has a phobia for everything, including winning important games.
This one is for the books.
Infamous. Ridiculous.
Infamous. Ridiculous.
Reminds me of Shilton, more chance of platting piss than winning a shootout with these fellas in nets.
Grant was shite against Derby when we lost at Old Trafford.
If only we had a fourth goalkeeper at the club who kept goal tidily enough when we last won the Europa League and who has the best clean sheet record in our history.
There was no commitment to his decision making, it’s like he already knows he’s not going to save it. Would’ve been the complete opposite to Deano, who should’ve been subbed on.
He always looks afraid of the ball. Never a good sign for a keeper in a penalty shootout.
The man is definitely cursed when penalties are on the table.
I don't blame him for missing, however 10 penalties and not a single defence is a very underwhelming for a goalkeeper of his calibre.
I don't blame him for missing, however 10 penalties and not a single defence is a very underwhelming for a goalkeeper of his calibre.
DDG went the right way on probably most of them, but they were all pretty much unsaveable. Probably 3 or 4 early dives sent the wrong way fair enough. But that's the lottery of penalties.
FFS
He's an embarrassment. They could've shot penalties at De Gea all day long no bother
I was dreading the prospect of penalties because it was obvious we weren't winning the shootout with De Gea in goal. It wasn't pessimism, it was fecking obvious.
I don't blame him, plenty of keepers go a whole shootout without saving a penalty. It took the opposing keeper 11 to make his first save. It's just that, even outside of this shootout, he just never saves penalties and you know you'll never win a shootout with such a keeper. He probably went into it without any confidence whatsoever, and then he gets the added pressure of having to score to keep us in as well. That was always going to end badly. He looked sick at the end and I felt sorry for him. But it has to be said, for a keeper, that just isn't good enough. No team can ever afford to start a game that might be decided on penalties with De Gea in goal, it's that simple.
Not the keeper’s fault at all. Worthless thread.
Yeah but he's a part time postman mate.
He literally just falls to one side before they even kick it.
Also what was he telling them when they walked up
Also what was he telling them when they walked up
But
He didn't claim a ball that hit the ground, in his 6 yard box.
He was shite against Derby but his penalty record can’t be any worse than De Gea’s. More chance of saving a penalty kick with a traffic cone in between the sticks for us than Dave.
Their GK's effort was as good as an outfield player's though. As soon as DDG stepped up I said to my wife, "It's over, this guy is a bottler to his core". Wazza's kid would have put more behind it.
I don't know about the saving penalties thing. That's asking too much I think. I know he was poor on the goal though.
It's a clever thread.
The OP tried to jinx DDG, it failed, but he can take credit the he's right that DDG won't save a single pen.
Bloke has the presence of tissue paper, unfortunately.
Thing is the penalty round could have gone for another round and De Gea would have saved one. Being as clear as it is surely at the club must have noticed this? maybe developing an strategy of changing the keeper in penalty rounds? I mean 36 freaking penalties in a row without saving a single one feck me that must be some kind of a record.
Ddg should have been subbed for the penalties. Ole is a romantic ashole thinking that if he just give anyone a chans....everything going to be great...
Better to lose because of it......
Lindelofs penalty was a good strike to be fair...
Sentimentality, and so as not to upset the player, simple as that.
I made a joke with my bro that he would save nothing and......
It's the nail in the coffin, his fall from grace is truly complete.
Was questioned about a month ago in saying that we should start Henderson in every game, I'm not saying he's the final answer, but at least he can do most of the fundamentals of GK to a decent standard.
Was questioned about a month ago in saying that we should start Henderson in every game, I'm not saying he's the final answer, but at least he can do most of the fundamentals of GK to a decent standard.
He’s absolutely awful at them.
To go 6.5 years in the premier league without saving a penalty is shocking.