How I SAVED that PENALTY...

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penalty

was given, so it's probably all three. and we're talking about we're in the middle of an injury tournament and that's currently fair play until they're just knocking on the door, knocking on the door, they're literally passing it about 25 yards outside my goal and they're just passing. just looking a little bit open and a little bit trying to play these little fruit balls and to be fair, the guys up front, but just amazing, like blocking everything, always tackling clear and cutting all of that and then they put a ball in the box and um .

Big Owen went to block it, but he left his arm in the air and to be fair to him, even Owen said he was probably a pen away, he probably looked like it in the stands, yes, but there was a delay and no. One knew what was going on and then I saw you putting your hands on your head, yeah, and I looked at the referee at any moment and said, oh, he's giving a panel, the crowd didn't realize that everyone was saying what was going on. Is it a

penalty

? Is if? And it was a penalty that is so used to VAR that you felt like oh, she's nice, everything will be fine, yes, no, he did see it, what was it like to see the Telly at that moment?

Is everyone like buzzing right now, yeah he's buzzing, but then it's like he's really tense and they're like it's weird to have invested interest in you being a girl too because he never really? I don't know, don't you know always constantly thinking about the goal, yeah, every cross, just grab it, just make the older women don't spend too much time, they can take it out and suddenly it's like oh no and then yeah, I was oh, like that that we were around the referee and we were. everything as a referee, come on, yo, what are you saying?

I think I even told him. I felt like I felt a little bad afterwards, I actually said encouragement. I know he's on TV, but it's not about you. I did it. I know it's on TV, but no. about your reference, right and I'm thinking, I'm not saying that, did you say something? No, he was like Ben Ben is a penalty. I let him play for 10 seconds, so once a hand happened, he followed Bay for about 10 seconds and then blew his whistle and said no, I let him play. I had to think about it, but it's handball, and I went later, yes, and it was a huge decision to make that decision at that moment in that last minute. of that game of such a big game it takes huge balls and he, to be fair to him, he faced it and he owned it and it was handball, he likes to say that even Owen said yes, it was probably handball, it would be nice if he said incredible, it's also on Disney Ben, yeah, big time, Prem player.

Sorry, but you got it. I was very good for the guys, honestly, right now I'm like a goalkeeper and I get a penalty. I'm, there's no pressure on me, honestly, there's no pressure on me at all, however, for the striker, this is, this is, this is needed, yeah, wow, this is a moment of enormous pressure, a very moment. pressured, he knows that if he scores this goal it doesn't count, we still have a chance. They had a chance to win the league if they were in the boxy, so it would have been a big problem for us and they had a slightly better goal difference, but the confidence I got from this would have been huge.

A goal like that in the last minute for Nick, a draw is like a victory, basically, you are far from your rivals and you, Nick, in the last minute, it's almost like you come out of that field buzzing so loud that their fans are humming so loudly that they would take advantage of that momentum. in the next four games they have for the rest of the season, it's huge, honestly, so yeah, a penalty is assessed and you know what? Do you know what I remember thinking? So I need to talk about the way that it's kind of like penalty analysis, so we always have an analysis sheet of which direction players are most likely to go and there's a Rexham analysis named Kyle and he looks at all of his penalties. and basically it will do a Real quick like a table of the names of the players that could take the penalty and it will say right left center right whatever is correct and for this particular player he had to go to my right, okay, um, which one is actually the way it was Um, so, you know, when it comes to these kind of moments, I think in the 96th minute, yeah, analysis goes out the window, guys, it has to go out the window because this is not a normal penalty, it is not, this is where your inner instinct will just take over and you will do what feels most comfortable and natural to you, and there is a huge statistic with penalties that most of the time, in pressure penalties , go through the middle or go to the right of the goalkeeper, yes, because it is easier to kick to the right if they are right.

Footers, if you're right, it's because they're on the goal, basically on the inside of your foot, it's curving. away from the goalkeeper it's also a safer BET, right, it's a safer bet, it's an easier kick to execute, so it's a statistic, it's always in my head forever, every penalty from the last 20 years is always in my head, but the way he put the ball down and then the position of his body when he stood up and was waiting to take the penalty. I thought there was no way you could put this on my left, there's just no way your body was too closed, you know what I mean by his body?

He is too close to the ball and if he is going to try to put it that way to my left he has to open his hip almost and open his foot upwards and in the 96th minute you don't want that pressure, you want to put your foot. It was even readjusted so that the wind blew the ball out of the spot, yeah, so again, there's probably something you couldn't catch on TV, right, a gale was blowing, Tom, a gay was blowing, okay, and it was horrible. and the ball flew out of the place so it looked like he was about to go grab it and then he had to just walk up and grab the one that yeah he had to grab the wall and put it back in the place that would have been horrible that was it gets into your head even that gets into your head so at this point the crowd was next to him oh next to the moan when you heard the moan yeah when he yeah in the replays you can hear him say oh um so yeah he's He replied and I thought wow this is yeah oh I can think he is feeling the pressure but surely he must be feeling the pressure here are you in your head thinking about how big this moment is?

Are you in the moment and is it? or what do you know, no, you don't think about anything, you don't think, if I say this, everything will be fine. I want to save it for the guys on the field and I know we will. get three points, that's all I think, but I don't think about you not having time or thinking about anything other than I hope I can save it to get the boys out, so we have to beat you. I know what I mean because it would have felt like a loss to us. If he had scored that goal, it would have felt like a loss.

So yeah, I'm almost at this point 99 sure he's expressing it too. in the middle or to my right and what I agree with the goalkeeping coach is that before the games I tell him listen when they score a penalty I look at you and he has the sheet in front of him like the cheat sheet almost and He will give me a right hand to my right, a left hand to my left or basically an arm down the middle because he's going down the middle and I didn't even look at it, honestly, I didn't even look.

To him, true, this is a hidden bonus sometimes, but as a goalkeeper sometimes you have to follow your instincts, I mean, you have to read the situation and analyze it a little bit and that's exactly what it was and I thought: no, he or goes. put him in the middle or to my right and I thought, I just hope you don't go down the middle because no goalie wants to stay in the middle, right? Didn't you also say that the GoPro had a bear that's where the GoPro was also the GoPro was in that right corner and I don't know if that's what I don't know what it is but I thought, I wonder if he would just want to put it on the GoPro , okay, so you thought I would psychologically want to have a GoPro.

I'm not saying if it is, but it could just be something to aim for, you know what I mean? Yes, but I don't like to have anything in my goal. I really like a towel or a bottle or something because I just think about Phil sometimes it can be something they can aim for, especially from a penalty, yeah, so I thought, yeah, it all adds up, I go to my right, it's so simple like Then he took a little bit of a slow run up where I think he was just looking at me, he was looking to see if I would make the first move or something like that I thought, no, buddy, I'm just going to wait for you to put your head down. so you can't see me anymore and then I go full power to my left, my right side, just like that, so, yeah, as soon as he put his head down and did that final kick, I just pushed him with everything I could. .

I have on my right side um and as I'm diving I think he's going over there oh my gosh and then you just pray I don't put it high because if he puts it high he can cure the goal it was a great pen and it was a penalty really Well, he slapped him, he gave him a good rhythm, he's in the corner, it wasn't easy, it's one of those penalties where it's not a missed penalty, it's a

saved

penalty. Yeah, it's a penalty for sure, it's not a bad penalty, it doesn't inflate your ego anymore, but it was one thing, it was brilliant, that's how I

saved

it, so yeah, so I saved it with my right hand, um, but with my upper hand. because I'm just jumping fully extended.

I'm thin. I'm jumping fully extended because in the back of my head I'm also thinking maybe you could put it high, so maybe I'll have to go with my top. hand and I do a top response, so I basically dive with two arms like outwards, um and since I put it away with my right hand, my left hands went over the top and I crushed it again, so it was like two. Kind of a hand save that I was buzzing with because it's amazing, but yeah, double the same thing, so as soon as I hit it and I saw it bounce out and I think well, that's about to end. a corner I don't celebrate saves I never do I never celebrate a penalty save, no matter what is correct, but I have also never saved the penalty in the 96th minute.

I have never done this before correctly, ever, especially when with such a Attributes to it a kind of magnitude and what it means to the team, the fans and the fans in the stadium and I couldn't help but give a little punch like what I noticed, I didn't notice it, but I noticed that the players were approaching you and you were hitting them like you were saying what will tell us what you want basically so yeah I had a little moment where I hit and I remember even doing it, I hit in the air and Greta is there and she's like don't do that, Do not do that.

I mean, it's understandable, no, but I know, but I shouldn't, yeah, I know, but yeah, they got a corner now, so the guys are jumping on me, but no. currently they do everything fast, everything, whether it's a free kick, a quick free kick, it could be, it doesn't matter what it's a corner, especially they're going to do it fast because they know they have seconds left, so they're going to put that ball in in a matter of seconds. and then the last free throw they had, they must have had about 10 seconds left from that moment, it depends on the one from the corner, yeah, sorry, around the corner, they must have had 10 seconds left and that was the only one.

Corner they made where they put it right in the box right that's the only one they made the whole game and they put it in the way we headed it of course um no it flipped yeah sorry my heart lit up I think It was Elliott Lee. next to me here, he headed again off the line and then headed, someone headed again and it got to Paul Mullen who hit it on the edge of the area to deflect it and that's when the full-time whistle blew and as soon as as that full-time whistle said: "My goodness, as you should, we should have had a 30-second period from when we saved the penalty to the full-time whistle, where football you will never really feel a better feeling in the history of your career as a player, I promise you that you will never have two better feelings in a 30 second period than that right there was like the goosebumps moment, thank you all for watching, we hope you enjoyed this fuzzcast clip if you want to watch it.

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