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The next time young midfielder Ademola Lookman shoots a penalty for Fulham, if there’s a next time, you can be sure he won’t try anything fancy.
Soccer Football – Premier League – West Ham United v Fulham – London Stadium, London, Great Britain – November 7, 2020 West Ham United’s Lukasz Fabianski saves a penalty from Fulham’s Ademola Lookman Pool via REUTERS / Catherine Ivill
LONDON: The next time young midfielder Ademola Lookman penalizes Fulham, if there’s a next time, you can be sure he won’t try anything fancy.
The 23-year-old had a chance to beat Fulham a last-gasp point at West Ham United on Saturday, but his shot from the point, in the eighth minute of injury time, was a spectacle of terror that left his manager. Scott Parker furious.
Trying the ‘Panenka’ chip made famous by Czech player Antonin Panenka and imitated by players like Italian maestro Andrea Pirlo, Lookman got it wrong.
He seemed to kick the ground before contact and his effort reached weakly into Lukasz Fabianski’s grateful arms.
He was sympathetic to teammate Tom Cairney, who won the penalty, and even West Ham midfielder Declan Rice, but Parker couldn’t hide his feelings after the howl that condemned his team to a 1-0 defeat in a game. in which they deserved a goal. point.
“I’m not going to avoid the missed penalty, I’m angry, and he (Lookman) is too. You can’t miss a penalty like that. If you take one like that, you have to score,” Parker said.
“He’s disappointed and rightly so. Everyone can miss penalties, of course, but in a certain way. This is football, growing as an individual and we will learn from this.”
Parker was also disappointed that Tomas Soucek’s injury-time goal for West Ham was not called offside.
(Sebastien) Haller is clearly offside and interfering, “said Parker, whose team has lost six of its eight Premier League games.” I would have liked to think that the linesman or the VAR could see it as interference. “
His rival, David Moyes, was relieved that his team had earned a first win in four games without playing well.
“It says a lot about the players. We are going to stay in the game, if we have to win ugly, it’s not that we were too ugly, but the last 20 we tried,” Moyes said.
“He was furious with the way we played after scoring the goal. We had to manage the game better and we didn’t, leading to a penalty kick, which was disappointing.
(Reporting by Martyn Herman, Editing by Pritha Sarkar)
