Lautaro Martinez

[Sawyer]

Hakan hasn't missed a penalty for us, hasn't missed a penalty in about 5 years I believe.

Makes total sense he is our penalty taker.

 

[junkie]

Hakan should take all, even if Lautaro needs to break scoring post

 

[rfU]

Ibra has given up penalty duties to kessie at milan so I don't get the ibra argument.
Hakan has the best penalty record in the squad. It had to be him to take this one.

Ibra came in and found Kessie was the established PK taker with an impeccable record, it's only because of seniority and/or arrogance that he assumed penalty duties but after a string of misses they reverted back to Kessie.

hasn't missed a penalty in about 5 years I believe.

This is absurd. He hasn't missed a penalty in 5 years becuase he hasn't been 1st choice for 5 years. He's taken 5/6 max. And he missed the original penalty which was poorly taken. He's a competent penalty taker, not a specialist. With our rivals he'd be way down the pecking order.

Look personally I'm not keen on looking for a new striker but it's episodes like this which convince me otherwise. He shouldn't be our #10 going forward.

 

[Sawyer]

This is absurd. He hasn't missed a penalty in 5 years becuase he hasn't been 1st choice for 5 years. He's taken 5/6 max. And he missed the original penalty which was poorly taken. He's a competent penalty taker, not a specialist. With our rivals he'd be way down the pecking order.

You are entitled to your opinion brother but facts are facts.

 

[rfU]

You are entitled to your opinion brother but facts are facts.

Opinion? Aight.

But also fact, Toro has taken and scored more penalties since coming to europe (2018)

 

[William]

Looking forward to not seeing has ass vs Verona.

 

[IM21]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1511468849916530690

 

[Sawyer]

Opinion? Aight.

But also fact, Toro has taken and scored more penalties since coming to europe (2018)

Your opinion that Toro should be taking penalties over Hakan is all brother.

 

[brakbrak]

Look personally I'm not keen on looking for a new striker but it's episodes like this which convince me otherwise. He shouldn't be our #10 going forward.

I'm with you on this, but criticizing him because he didn't take the penalty is ridiculous. Criticize him for this:

 

[ADRossi]

Slow, cant score, cant dribble, cant pass and his worth is cca 70mil?! Please sell him this summer.

He's not slow, he's just not fast.

 

[Broseph Stalin]

He’s not a bad striker, he’s just not a good striker

 

[pazza moratti]

I'm with you on this, but criticizing him because he didn't take the penalty is ridiculous. Criticize him for this:

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And its not just those bad stats, but also that Lautaro don’t offer any threat to our opponents or his influens to our game is minimal.

Maybe its cause he is wrongly used by Inzaghi or he play with wrong partner or both? I don’t understand why Lautaro play so high up and Dzeko play everywhere? They also have zero connection. Dzeko can’t draw opponents players to mark him, so he is pretty easy to mark. Lukaku speed/movement and positioning made much more open spaces to others and Lautaro was pretty good at those spaces. Now he can’t do anything with that limited space and time. He can’t keep hold of the ball and can’t drible… useles!

I think we have now seen enough Lautaro-Dzeko? I know Correa is no Lukaku but he would bring atleast that dribling ability and speed. So I would use Correa with Lautaro or Dzeko and Sanchez as a sub for him!

We also don’t have that counter attack treath to opponents, what we had with Lukaku and Hakimi and only Correa would give some of that back. Now our opponents can push up without any fear of counter attack and play with high line and kill our midfield. Maybe this is the reason that also our midfield (Barella) have also been so average this season?

 

[CafeCordoba]

Giving away the penalty was a great move by Lautaro who is a real team player. He must have felt low on confidence and rather give the pen to Calha because he cares about the team result.

 

[brehme1989]

If Lautaro Martinez played next to another Lautaro Martinez they'd have 25 goals each by now.

 

[tonyclifton]

Wish we could play Salernitana every week, so that Lautaro could appear somewhat useful. Dude needs to GTFO. Get Dybala next season and we are good to go.

 

[YoramG]

calciomercato says Conte and Paratici are sniffing round, and we're looking for about 80m euros.

I mean...with this level of performance, I'd call you an idiot if you spent that much on him. I'd take your money, but I'd call you an idiot still. Problem remains what we can invest back, and I just don't trust anything about our ownership at the moment.

 

[rfU]

I'm with you on this, but criticizing him because he didn't take the penalty is ridiculous. Criticize him for this:

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so he basically offers nothing: no goals, assists, leadership, dribbling, creativity, set pieces...nothing, only thing he's good at is passing the buck on what should be his responsibility.

Giving away the penalty was a great move by Lautaro who is a real team player. He must have felt low on confidence and rather give the pen to Calha because he cares about the team result.

But how does one build confidence?

You know i started a new job 5 months ago and it's been kicking my ass, but i just got on with it, long hours and a lot of stupid questions, If Toro cared about the team he would dedicate more hours honing his craft. Simple. 2 years with Lukaku, how did he not learn a thing or two?

We have a coppa 2nd leg semi coming up, what will he do if it goes to penalties?

 

[Strale]

If they are going to "reinvest" that money in a Petagna then I say keep him.

 

[BasedGodPunk]

Penalties imo are more of a mental thing than physical. At least when you take defenders and GK out of the equation. Lautaro is clearly a player who lacks a killer instinct while Hakan never lacks confidence even when he plays like shit.

 

[varmin]

Penalties imo are more of a mental thing than physical. At least when you take defenders and GK out of the equation. Lautaro is clearly a player who lacks a killer instinct while Hakan never lacks confidence even when he plays like shit.

Yes, but practice can help him to overcome it. If he learns how to shoot precisely at the corner, for the golie will be more difficult to save the ball even if he guesses the direction. And when Lautaro sees that his practice pays off, he will get more confidence.
Anyway, I'm also on board to sell him, mainly because of our financial situation, I prefer to sacrifice him, instead someone of Skriniar, Bastoni, Barella or even Dumfries. But, I don't think that Lautaro's performance is only his fault. Apparently his partnership with Dzeko sucks and Inzaghi cannot do a shit about it. He can at least give more time to Lautaro-Sanchez, as I think that will be beneficial for the former, but he has some weird fetish with Dzeko.