Smith's penalty save

[dingleydangley]

Well, it won't ever be better than that. There are people on here who sound like Daily Mail readers who've just discovered that they're the love-children of Karl Marx and Germaine Greer. Football's always frustrating, often grim, sometimes boring, and occasionally joyous. There was beauty in Smith's performance but, you know, eye of the beholder and all that.

I hope, in a way, that we don't have to watch our keeper making that many saves again. It's not a good thing to have a defence that porous. I won't forget Smith's performance in a hurry. Oh, and the penalty save. Blimey.

 

[Shrimperforlife]

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I was directly behind the one in the first half where he dived full length to tip the ball just over the bar... if that wasn't great then I don't know what is.

Couldn't agree more... top draw

I am an old duffer now, but played in goal along time ago, so always look out for keepers...

I have been lucky to see some great saves over the years, Jim Montomery for Sunderland in the FA Cup in 73 is still my favourite, and the one thing that I feel makes these great saves is the fact he uses what I consider to be the ''wrong '' hand .

Both the one mentioned above, and the penalty, he uses his upper hand, which is an unbelievably hard thing to do in reality... go and stand in a goal and see how it hard it is to use the left hand whilst watching and moving to the area that the ball is going.

Both these two were away to his right , yet he uses his left hand...!!

Yes , with the penalty , he guessed the right direction, half way there.

But I also remember Pele in the seventies, in a trail/test , showing that if you get the ball within a yard of the post he would score the vast percentage of the pens he took .

Well this makes, in my opinion , the save even better....as he saved it , with his wrong hand, in the top corner, at the speed it was going ...

Up there with the best......

 

[southchurch]

Unbelievable save but tbh was one of many on Tuesday night. I've never known so many people in our section to be so sure the penalty would be saved.

I thought exactly that. After what happened with the Pen. shoot out last week I was convinced that Smith would save the next penalty he faced. You just know he wanted that oh so bad. He would have loved to have put 2 fingers up to Sturrock after that save.

 

[Shrimperforlife]

A good save but not a great one.

Generally speaking Smith fists and parries practically all the saves he makes and last night the percentages worked out for him. I'd sooner have a keeper who can actually hang on to the ball when making a save more often than not. Perhaps this is why he rarely comes from a cross. He simply isn't used to hanging onto the football. He's a parrier, blocker, puncher, nudger, deflecter and not too fly when it comes to tipping. So he'll never be a reliable keeper. Conditions were still last night. When the wind blows his style means trouble.

How many SUFC keepers have ever done this??

Remind me gents??

I feel that this could describe any number of the keepers we have had, Darryl?? Bart?? Roycey?? Emberson?? etc etc

They have all been accused of not coming for the ball, not catching etc

 

[David Icke]

As Paul Sturrock said - Smith made some very good saves last night and I agree with the gaffer. No great saves, but very good. And as I said before what made Smith's performance great last night was that he made so many good saves and for that he gets a 10 from me. Stannard, Flavs, Threadgold all had games like this. The problem right now is that everything surrounding Smith is being accutely felt by many commentators on here and distorts their judgement somewhat. Paul Sturrock has spoken.

 

[Gremlin]

respect your opinion. but dont agree with it.

...... Great save

Make your mind up!

 

[South Bank Hank]

I thought exactly that. After what happened with the Pen. shoot out last week I was convinced that Smith would save the next penalty he faced. You just know he wanted that oh so bad. He would have loved to have put 2 fingers up to Sturrock after that save.

He would definitely have loved to put two fingers up to the manager (and to his detractors in the fanbase) and he's done that in style. Difficult to see who, despite Smithy, would be more happy about that than Sturrock himself.

This is why we all love football so much as sometimes it just throws these sort of magical things up.

 

[Grayson]

Freeze the video clip at frame 25. Your see he saves the ball with his left hand and has hardly left the ground. The ball is is not going in any where near your 'perfect penalty zone'. Like I say I am not knocking smith and feel he never should have been subed for the pens last week. That was a PS mistake in my opinion.

See the ball by Smith's glove. It's a foot below the crossbar. Definitely in the perfect penalty zone, and easily above his shoulder. He showed brilliant reach and strength in the arm/hand to palm it away.

 

[dloman]

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See the ball by Smith's glove. It's a foot below the crossbar. Definitely in the perfect penalty zone, and easily above his shoulder. He showed brilliant reach and strength in the arm/hand to palm it away.

Yep just a foot or so below the bar and going away from him towards the top corner.

face it some people are impossible to impress

 

[South Bank Hank]

Freeze the video clip at frame 25. Your see he saves the ball with his left hand and has hardly left the ground. The ball is is not going in any where near your 'perfect penalty zone'. Like I say I am not knocking smith and feel he never should have been subed for the pens last week. That was a PS mistake in my opinion.

Your opinion and fair enough, but I can't see how it can be viewed as a mistake. He changed the keeper to win the penalty shoot-out. We won the penalty shoot-out. He then brought our number 1 keeper back into the team, he played a blinder and shoved it right up Sturrock's back entrance. It would have been nice to win against Brentford but, that result aside, this could not have played out any better with both Bentley and Smith getting the job done, building their confidence, and improving their personal stock with the fans and manager. Absolutely perfect.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

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See the ball by Smith's glove. It's a foot below the crossbar. Definitely in the perfect penalty zone, and easily above his shoulder. He showed brilliant reach and strength in the arm/hand to palm it away.

Why is he saving a ball to the right of his goal with his left hand?

 

[Grayson]

Why is he saving a ball to the right of his goal with his left hand?

I don't wish to patronise you but it's common knowledge that it gives you more reach.

 

[Pubey]

because the ball is high up and so you can only reach it with your left.

 

[South Bank Hank]

Why is he saving a ball to the right of his goal with his left hand?

Are you serious?

Like any other goalkeeper, he's saving the ball (which is above him) with the only arm likely to actually reach it.

 

[Neil 24]

gremlin u misunderstood my post i do and have said smiths penalty save was out of this world. as peeps no and prob gettin bored with im smudgesb biggest fan

 

[jamesmut2000]

Why is he saving a ball to the right of his goal with his left hand?

 

[dloman]

Why is he saving a ball to the right of his goal with his left hand?

Because he would never of been able to reach it with his right hand and more than probably if he tried would have ended up facing backwards into the goal!

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Why is he saving a ball to the right of his goal with his left hand?

Because it is a better option than letting it in?

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Are you serious?

Like any other goalkeeper, he's saving the ball (which is above him) with the only arm likely to actually reach it.

Am I misunderstanding something? The ball is to the right of him? He dives right yet puts his left arm across his body to reach the ball? Wouldnt he have more reach using his right arm that doesnt have to go across his body? Im going on what I can see in the pic thats all

 

[davewebbsbrain]

because the ball is high up and so you can only reach it with your left.

I was merely asking a question as the pic wasnt altogether clear. Red will be duly given back as soon as I can.