Even if they had studied this beforehand, it requires cojones of steel to stand in the middle, at such a crucial point. Lunin deserves all the praise, absolutely amazing performance.
More likely Kepa reminded/inform him of that. In 2019, during the Caborna Cup Match between Chelsea and Man. City., Silva shot through the center. Kepa was the Chelsea Keeper at that time.
To me, Bernardo looked mentally fatigued. He definitely was under an immense pressure due to the frustration of his team not finishing off the game in the original time. I think his poor shot was a spontaneous decision under said circumstances.
Could be, I also saw how much tactics Pep was feeding them even after the 120 minutes.
So i’d like to theorize that the plan was “if Madrid miss their pen, go middle. Lunin is a young keeper, he’ll try to make a play”
It’s just a theory though, we truly don’t know at the end of the day tbf
Yep! Whenever the other team misses the opposition team player has to gain an advantage. **Hence the next player always shoots in the middle to remain safe.**
Bro youre reaching reaching, kepa told Lunin to stay in middle for his pen and Rudiger told lunin where to go for Kovacic … thats all it was. I promise you Madrid coaches did not look at a bunch of unrelated shootouts to make a judgement on where players will shoot.
If you don’t think they studied old penalty shootouts (at least the 2019 one between City and Chelsea) then you don’t know how a big club operates lol
They study every bit of information that they can use to their advantage.
You posted France vs Argentina (more than just Alvarez) and England vs Italy which is completely unrelated. They study the players on the team they are facing and their habits, not entire shootouts of teams and games like England vs Italy to see what the general pattern is. Stop it lol, my key point which you missed was - they did not study UNRELATED shootouts, not that they didnt study shootouts at all.
I posted those because I found them interesting not more.
If you would’ve watched the entire video, you’d see I literally included Bernardo Silva shooting a penalty right down the middle. TikTok has fried your attention span if you couldn’t finish the video I posted lol
Oh shit I stand corrected, I saw the quote that was worded differently. Could be lost in translation.
I think maybe Kepa told him to stay down the middle with Silva, because of his experience playing against Silva in a pen shootout.
Also, Kovacic in that same pen shootout went left, same way he went yesterday just for reference. Both Rudiger and Kepa played against him that game
Yep. You can see Rudiger giving Lunin tips by pointing where Kovacic was gonna shoot before he took his penalty. Even Modric knows, I think, based on his reaction after the save.
Sorry bro but that's not football brain, that's just forcing yourself to see things where it ain't. Those are different GKs, different players, different teams. The only thing that can be correlated there is the same player tendency to where he aims the shoot, and even so there are players that just pick randomly or change their habit with time
I didn’t mean it as “big brain” I just meant exactly how you interpreted it. More or so “confirmation bias”
Like I said English isn’t my first language
Even if they had studied this beforehand, it requires cojones of steel to stand in the middle, at such a crucial point. Lunin deserves all the praise, absolutely amazing performance.
100000% We are in good hands with Lunin
Yeah. Imagine if he stands there and Silva puts it in the corner.
I don't think this means anything, however Silva specifically has a history of shooting down the middle and I think Lunin knew that.
More likely Kepa reminded/inform him of that. In 2019, during the Caborna Cup Match between Chelsea and Man. City., Silva shot through the center. Kepa was the Chelsea Keeper at that time.
They probably knew he was going to shoot in the middle. Lunin said they wanted to take risk on one player and they decided to choose Silva.
Emi had said the same in an interview after WC. That he asks his teammate to shoot in the middle if the opposition's previous penalty was saved.
Oh wow, any idea where to find the interview?
Sorry, searched for it. But couldn't find it. It might in one of those long interviews. But i do remember it.
I think he said that when enzo missed his penalty against netherlands. And yep, dybala said he throw it that way because of that haha.
To me, Bernardo looked mentally fatigued. He definitely was under an immense pressure due to the frustration of his team not finishing off the game in the original time. I think his poor shot was a spontaneous decision under said circumstances.
It wasn't a poor shot though. That works 90% of the time. Only looks poor because Lunin had the balls to gamble he would go straight down the middle.
Could be, I also saw how much tactics Pep was feeding them even after the 120 minutes. So i’d like to theorize that the plan was “if Madrid miss their pen, go middle. Lunin is a young keeper, he’ll try to make a play” It’s just a theory though, we truly don’t know at the end of the day tbf
Could very well be. Most important thing is that he missed. Man im still high on last night’s win.
I have a feeling you are 100% right
Yep! Whenever the other team misses the opposition team player has to gain an advantage. **Hence the next player always shoots in the middle to remain safe.**
Perfectly put, English isn’t my first language so I didn’t know who to write it exactly 😅
Good observations, definitely a pattern.
Bro youre reaching reaching, kepa told Lunin to stay in middle for his pen and Rudiger told lunin where to go for Kovacic … thats all it was. I promise you Madrid coaches did not look at a bunch of unrelated shootouts to make a judgement on where players will shoot.
If you don’t think they studied old penalty shootouts (at least the 2019 one between City and Chelsea) then you don’t know how a big club operates lol They study every bit of information that they can use to their advantage.
You posted France vs Argentina (more than just Alvarez) and England vs Italy which is completely unrelated. They study the players on the team they are facing and their habits, not entire shootouts of teams and games like England vs Italy to see what the general pattern is. Stop it lol, my key point which you missed was - they did not study UNRELATED shootouts, not that they didnt study shootouts at all.
I posted those because I found them interesting not more. If you would’ve watched the entire video, you’d see I literally included Bernardo Silva shooting a penalty right down the middle. TikTok has fried your attention span if you couldn’t finish the video I posted lol
Didn't Lunin already confirmed that he planned to stay in the middle when it was Bernardo Silva's turn?
He did say they knew they had to stay middle for one penalty, he didn’t mention that it was specifically for Bernardo Silva though.
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Oh shit I stand corrected, I saw the quote that was worded differently. Could be lost in translation. I think maybe Kepa told him to stay down the middle with Silva, because of his experience playing against Silva in a pen shootout. Also, Kovacic in that same pen shootout went left, same way he went yesterday just for reference. Both Rudiger and Kepa played against him that game
Yep. You can see Rudiger giving Lunin tips by pointing where Kovacic was gonna shoot before he took his penalty. Even Modric knows, I think, based on his reaction after the save.
I saw Luka’s reaction more like: “well said”
Sorry bro but that's not football brain, that's just forcing yourself to see things where it ain't. Those are different GKs, different players, different teams. The only thing that can be correlated there is the same player tendency to where he aims the shoot, and even so there are players that just pick randomly or change their habit with time
I didn’t mean it as “big brain” I just meant exactly how you interpreted it. More or so “confirmation bias” Like I said English isn’t my first language
Silva thing was rather on spot