Only because he missed. You don't need to be warmed up to take a penalty, especially when you're the main taker. There isn't much to it tbh. One shot by the attacker v the goalkeeper, where the attacker holds all the cards. Salah scored one with his first touch in Madrid, despite the 80 second delay between getting it and taking it. It's a basic skill of the game you can either do it or you can't.
I believe City started off slow last season as well then took off. They're too talented
They could be 9 points behind us after the next two games, and if so, that's going to be a long way back for them. When you need 90-95 points to win a league, you can't afford slow starts. As we know very well, you can lose it by October. They started slow last season, but got away with it. When they started slow 2 years ago, we were 8 points clear by the October break and won it with 7 games to go. And this season is going to be more similiar to that year than last year.
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