2023/24 Amadou Onana

Ming the Merciful · December 19, 2023

Nymzee said:
Will say pens aren't for everyone. I grew up with some brilliant lads and some of them couldn't hit a pen to save their nan.

Nymzee's great bunch of lads can't hit a pen either, forget it everyone, it's Chinatown.

Nymzee · December 19, 2023

Ming the Merciful said:
Nymzee's great bunch of lads can't hit a pen either, forget it everyone, it's Chinatown.

Well you don't sound rattled at all.

MikeH72 · December 19, 2023

GrandOldTeam said:
A bad pen is putting it wide or over.

No. That was a bad pen.

Saint Domingo · December 19, 2023

davek said:
He scored a valuable goal on Saturday to win us points.

That's the most important thing.

He’s perpetuated ‘Everton that’ and the idea that somehow some way we don’t get over the line in big moments. That could be more damaging than any lost points in the long run for the club. What’s doubly criminal is that had he scored we would have shaken off some of that mentality and bounced into the Dpurs game thinking we were unbeatable. A massive massive step backwards.

mikel_88 · December 19, 2023

Still dont kno why he was on it have no problem players stepping up and missing. That was nust a lazy over confident pen, also wtf is garner not on that pen

Ming the Merciful · December 19, 2023

Nymzee said:
Well you don't sound rattled at all.

Would would I be rattled?

My mates can take a pen

Exeter_Gently · December 19, 2023

He's finished at us now.

Hinchcliffe's Corner · December 19, 2023

MikeH72 said:
No. That was a bad pen.

I think he's inferring it was beyond bad.

MikeH72 · December 19, 2023

Hinchcliffe's Corner said:
I think he's inferring it was beyond bad.

If that’s the case then yes, it indeed was.

Nymzee · December 19, 2023

Ming the Merciful said:
Would would I be rattled?

My mates can take a pen

^ rattled.

GrandOldTeam · December 19, 2023

MikeH72 said:
No. That was a bad pen.

It was the worst penalty I can recall.

Baggzio · December 19, 2023

stretford blue said:
His ego took over unfortunately

Think this is the kind of stuff that winds people up the most. Genuinely why I disliked Iwobi so much when he was here, it’s one thing when a player has a very visible ego, it’s another when they can’t back it up. I cannot hack crap players acting like they’re big time ballers.

Now this was a moment of madness from Onana and something he can learn from I hope. Players like Iwobi and Gordon though just here let the ego take over and frankly it was a big reason I was delighted to see the back of them. I hope that doesn’t turn into the same case with Onana, and I don’t think it will. He’s a far more intelligent lad than those two, even combined.

Stoffee · December 19, 2023

Awful pen but got to question how he was in the top 5 pen takers....mad decision in itself...only person in the squad he should have been before was gana

ForeverBlue92 · December 19, 2023

stretford blue said:
His ego took over unfortunately

Which is why the incoming flack and banter from football fans and journo's on social media is the only way the boy will learn as unfortunate as that is for him.

Amadou is fortunate he isn't playing for one of the elite sides as that type of Karius moment at the highest level can end a boys career.

No football fan should get angry with a player missing a penalty kick, Gana missed but at least he had a go. Onana wanted to make it all about him with the Bruno Fernandes stutter and cost himself, his team mates, manager and fans.