You said he was ripping the ball out of marios hands when in fact it was the other way round which shows what sort of captain he is.
As I said I'm not having it that our four pen takers are ahead of him in pecking order in a normal game so I'm guessing he sh*t out. Don't give a sh*t about his supposed injury, if Gerrard or carragher had a broken leg they would still step up.
One player in particular gave his everything on Sunday and that was Lucas. Now that's a leader. He had the balls to step up as well.
Henderson was invisible. It was like playing with ten men and that's our captain? Disgraceful.
What I meant is that he obviously fancy's himself to take pens..
But he didn't then and we don't know why.
I really doubt had he not fancied it for whatever reason but stepped up and missed it that you'd be happy. I wouldn't want anyone to go up there if they didn't fancy it whether that's through injury or mentally if there were 5 others who wanted them. Skippers armband or not, there's more to being captain than a penalty in a shoot out
Let the ones take them who want to take them on the day.
I'd rather that.
I'm just saying we don't know what happens that we don't see.
You don't want him as skipper? No problem, in an ideal world as I said I wouldn't either.
I'll try again
On the day I thought he should have taken one.. I'm agreeing with you. In an ideal world id have a different skipper.
I'm just saying that he must fancy himself for taking them but at that moment for a reason we don't know he didn't take one.
If I got my wording wrong on the Mario issue sorry I just meant he obviously fancy's taking them. That whole incident was a bit embarrassing to be honest.
Penalties are a lottery, their keeper actually made a couple of cracking penalty saves in that shoot out from Lucas and Lallana.. It happens.
You hate him as skipper I get that mate. But there has been lots of shoot outs when skippers don't take pens, he isn't the first and won't be the last.
The last two managers have picked him as skipper, like I said earlier Klopp could have given it someone else as soon as he took over. The rest of the players talk highly of him, the previous skipper does very highly too.
We have a squad lacking in leaders, he wouldn't be my choice in an ideal world and probably in this squad but he is and not taking a penalty and getting that worked up over that is confirmation bias.
Had we won and he not taken one would you still be slating him for not taking one? Had their keeper not pulled off a couple of good saves from pretty good pens?