Club: At PSG, the penalty shooter becomes contextual

A strike from Senny Mayulu, which was coupled by Robin the Norman, supplied PSG on Sunday, his twelfth penalty of the season, not essentially the obvious because it was the Var who referred to as Mr. Kovacs to whistle it. And after going to the penalty spot to remodel it, Vitinha gave the ball to his pal Lee Kang-in, who had not marked with PSG since November and a double in Angers (4-0).

The South Korean worldwide, who had already discovered the online prior to now week with South Korea, was not requested and took the counter-footage Jan Oblak to attain the fourth purpose of PSG towards the Colchoneros, his very first penalty of the season.

“If there’s a good rating, we give the penalty to a participant who wants targets”

Elected man of the match, Vitinha confided in Dazn France on the finish of the assembly and was questioned about his option to let him rework the penalty in his place: “Now we have already talked about that earlier than, me, the coach, the opposite shooters. I usually draw. If there’s Ousmane, it is Ousmane. We make a selection. Right this moment, it was me and we’ve got any such settlement that I’m not attacker, so I do not want targets like an attacker. So usually if there are 3 or 4-0, a superb rating, we give a participant who’s extra attacker, who wants targets. This was the case of Lee Kang-in and that is it, ”stated the Portuguese.

As had filtered at first of the season, Vitinha due to this fact confirms that the hierarchy of penalty shooters is just not frozen and determined earlier than every match after session with Luis Enrique. The Portuguese additionally means that whether it is aligned on the sphere concurrently Ooumane Dembélé, it’s French who’s answerable for capturing, which is a small evolution since this season, when the 2 had been on the sphere on the identical time, it’s all the time the Portuguese who pulled the penalties (towards Lille, Lyon and Brest within the go -round barrage).

Vitinha additionally confirms that the concept, relying on the rating, is to be altruistic by leaving the penalty to an attacker who lacks confidence. This was the case with Lee on Sunday towards Atlético, but in addition final August in Le Havre with Randal Kolo Muani, who had scored on the finish of the match the purpose of 4-1 on penalty whereas Vitinha and Dembélé had been nonetheless on the sphere.

And the highest penalty governing goalscorer is …

It is usually attention-grabbing to notice that the highest scorer of PSG on penalty this season is named … Gonçalo Ramos, who has scored 4 out of 5 makes an attempt. The Portuguese by no means needed to share with Dembélé for the reason that Frenchman had all the time left the sphere when he had struck, particularly throughout his failure towards Auxerre on Could 17. However throughout Espaly/PSG (2-4) or PSG/Auxerre (3-1), Vitinha was there and had voluntarily left the penalty to his compatriot to permit him to seek out confidence. Seeing him do the identical with Lee is due to this fact in no way distinctive.

Vitinha reworked 3 of the 4 penalties he tried him this season (his failure was towards Arsenal in a return semi-finals) whereas Dembélé pulled a single penalty this season and reworked it. It was January 12 towards ASSE and Vitinha was not on the sphere at the moment the match.