Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang: Black Panther

[HBL]

Glad he scored the pen but I don’t want him to ever take one again for us if Lacazette is on the pitch.

He’s quite a poor penalty taker.

Agreed, good that he scored today and got his confidence back but Lacazette should absolutely be the penalty taker if they're both on the pitch. 17/24 isn't really a good record at all.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Now the remaining fixtures against lower quality teams need padding up his goal stats and finish top scores he just one goal behind Aguero

 

[razörist]

The balls on this guy to take it again on such an important moment. The top players don’t shy away, they live for these moments. Good on you Auba!

 

[dka1]

Glad he scored the pen but I don’t want him to ever take one again for us if Lacazette is on the pitch.

He’s quite a poor penalty taker.

Yeah defo praise the balls on him, big game and proved something.

But by god his penalty technique isn't great, having flipped quickly through Lacazette's spot kicks he has it nailed on, hard into a corner so I hope Laca will take them from now on.

 

[Mark Tobias]

Been pants recently. Penalty was garbage as well. Exactly the same place where it was saved a week ago..

 

[Gunner-Union]

I always wonder when we break away and he is 1 vs 1 with a defender why he
Never just kicks it past them and use his pace?

 

[Mark Tobias]

I always wonder when we break away and he is 1 vs 1 with a defender why he
Never just kicks it past them and use his pace?

Seems to be lacking confidence recently. Which is weird because he is probably one of the more arrogant people in the league.. and so he should be with his scoring stats.

 

[Gunner-Union]

Seems to be lacking confidence recently. Which is weird because he is probably one of the more arrogant people in the league.. and so he should be with his scoring stats.

You might be right but even before he just never seems to take a defender on with his pace. I wondered if he was as fast as I thought but you see him sprint to track back or on the breakaway without the ball and he’s def fast

 

[ksarp]

Poor penalty but he was engaged in the game.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

On MOTD2 Shearer was pointing out how Auba never looks at the ball during his run up. Quite strange, not sure how many players do that. Seems his thinking is that he can both fool the keeper by looking at where he's not going to shoot while approaching the ball, and also adjust at the last second if he sees the keeper moving one way or the other. But also I would think that's why he doesn't strike the ball that hard for his pks, because theres a risk of wiffing pretty badly if you try to hit with power but aren't looking at the ball.

By contrast, Shearer said that when he took penalties, he'd stare at the opposite corner from where he was going before the ref blew the whistle, but once he started his run up he just focused on the ball the whole way and just hit it into the corner he chose pretty much as hard as he could.

edit: found a clip of Auba that shows this.

 

[MutableEarth]

The goal would have done a lot for him. He'll never be a huge presence in the approach - he's the tip of the sword, not the shaft.

He has been quite poor lately but I expect him to score a hatful more before the season finishes.

 

[Jury]

On MOTD2 Shearer was pointing out how Auba never looks at the ball during his run up. Quite strange, not sure how many players do that. Seems his thinking is that he can both fool the keeper by looking at where he's not going to shoot while approaching the ball, and also adjust at the last second if he sees the keeper moving one way or the other. But also I would think that's why he doesn't strike the ball that hard for his pks, because theres a risk of wiffing pretty badly if you try to hit with power but aren't looking at the ball.

By contrast, Shearer said that when he took penalties, he'd stare at the opposite corner from where he was going before the ref blew the whistle, but once he started his run up he just focused on the ball the whole way and just hit it into the corner he chose pretty much as hard as he could.

edit: found a clip of Auba that shows this.

Guy in the vid is wrong. He's using peripheral vision when he strikes the ball so he can see both ball and keeper.. It's enough when you've taken a million pens in training. Shearer is right when he says he doesn't look at the ball during the run up though.

 

[Jury]

Don't get people saying this was a poor pen. He backed himself to send the keeper the wrong way and he achieved that. Risky, but he nailed it.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

Guy in the vid is wrong. He's using peripheral vision when he strikes the ball so he can see both ball and keeper.. It's enough when you've taken a million pens in training. Shearer is right when he says he doesn't look at the ball during the run up though.

Actually you can see him almost glace down right as he strikes, so you're right he probably sees the ball peripherally when he hits it. Still I wonder if this approach leads to him striking the ball with less force or if that's just how he is.

 

[razörist]

On MOTD2 Shearer was pointing out how Auba never looks at the ball during his run up. Quite strange, not sure how many players do that. Seems his thinking is that he can both fool the keeper by looking at where he's not going to shoot while approaching the ball, and also adjust at the last second if he sees the keeper moving one way or the other. But also I would think that's why he doesn't strike the ball that hard for his pks, because theres a risk of wiffing pretty badly if you try to hit with power but aren't looking at the ball.

By contrast, Shearer said that when he took penalties, he'd stare at the opposite corner from where he was going before the ref blew the whistle, but once he started his run up he just focused on the ball the whole way and just hit it into the corner he chose pretty much as hard as he could.

edit: found a clip of Auba that shows this.

Jep that’s why he doesn’t get much force on it.

Hazard does it too!

 

[Jury]

Actually you can see him almost glace down right as he strikes, so you're right he probably sees the ball peripherally when he hits it. Still I wonder if this approach leads to him striking the ball with less force or if that's just how he is.

I think he's just going all-in on the dummy, so feels it doesn't matter how hard he hits it. Not my cup of tea tbh, and I hate watching him take pens. I couldn't look yesterday. I turned over, flicked back 5 minutes later and squinted at the top left corner of the screen to see if the shape of the one changed to a squiggly shape of a two... As you do. It'd have broken me had he missed.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

I think he's just going all-in on the dummy, so feels it doesn't matter how hard he hits it. Not my cup of tea tbh, and I hate watching him take pens. I couldn't look yesterday. I turned over, flicked back 5 minutes later and squinted at the top left corner of the screen to see if the shape of the one changed to a squiggly shape of a two... As you do. It'd have broken me had he missed.

Yeah I looked at the screen the way Auba looks at the ball during that

So nervous, if he had missed you just knew they were going to score soon after.

 

[L3T5 PL4Y]

That penalty should do him a lot of good. Pretty encouraging he backed himself to take it.

 

[samshere]

I don't know where the art of putting the ball at the extreme ends has disappeared. Everyone is trying to be cheeky nowadays

 

[Rex Stone]

On MOTD2 Shearer was pointing out how Auba never looks at the ball during his run up. Quite strange, not sure how many players do that. Seems his thinking is that he can both fool the keeper by looking at where he's not going to shoot while approaching the ball, and also adjust at the last second if he sees the keeper moving one way or the other. But also I would think that's why he doesn't strike the ball that hard for his pks, because theres a risk of wiffing pretty badly if you try to hit with power but aren't looking at the ball.

By contrast, Shearer said that when he took penalties, he'd stare at the opposite corner from where he was going before the ref blew the whistle, but once he started his run up he just focused on the ball the whole way and just hit it into the corner he chose pretty much as hard as he could.

edit: found a clip of Auba that shows this.

Favourite video on the psychology of penalty taking. The way he did it is the best style.

Picking a side and blasting it is way riskier than his method.

He just has to be brave and not take his eyes off the keeper like he did last week.