Arsenal goalkeeper, Petr Cech, has said players have been getting the better of him from the penalty spot, because they “keep their calm.”
The Czech has failed to save all the seven penalties he had faced this season and it’s a 0-for-9 in total since he joined from Chelsea two years ago.
Cech insists he will not change his tactics of trying to read the player’s body language, before deciding which way to dive.
“There are probably goalkeepers who just decide prior to the kick, I go right. I don’t know, because everybody can have a slightly different approach to it,” Cech told the Arsenal Weekly podcast.
“But my approach has been working, until this season, quite well. But unfortunately the players keep their calm and manage to score against me this season. So hopefully there will be a moment when it reverses.”
Cech hasn’t saved a penalty in the Premier League since 2011 and according to Transfermarkt, he has saved a total of 16 of the 66 spot-kicks he has faced in his career.
“You see the way they take the ball, how far they go off the ball, you can see whether they will shoot strong or whether they will place the ball,” he said.
“I never make a decision, ‘OK I go left. However the player runs, I go left.’ No. The decision is, you [consider] the probabilities, you see the way the situation goes, but in the last split second you read what the player tries to do. And that’s when you make the final decision, is that split second.”
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