Missed penalty sends West Ham fans ‘absolutely wild’ – BBC pundit
West Ham were very unfortunate not to hold onto a draw at Stamford Bridge as the hosts took all three points in the dying moments.
The Irons had defended fiercely all afternoon but Christian Pulisic struck in the final minute of the 90 to clinch the game for Chelsea and cement their place in the Premier League top-four.
They had already survived a penalty and a Craig Dawson red card before then though as the Englishman was ruled to have brought Romelu Lukaku down deliberately in the area after a VAR check.
Jorginho dribbled the penalty hopelessly into the arms of Lukasz Fabianski but his American teammate came to save his blushes five minutes later.
Despite that, BBC pundit Alistair McGowan described the scenes in the away end as the Italian’s timid spot-kick was saved.
“What a terrible penalty. West Ham fans go absolutely wild. Thomas Tuchel is staring into the abyss,” McGowan said.
Awful
There may have never been a penalty as bad as that taken in the Premier League.
The fancy little jump before striking the ball didn’t work for Bruno Fernandes yesterday for Manchester United and the same fate fell onto Jorginoh today.
Why players don’t just sprint up and wallop the ball as hard as they can is anybody’s guess because if you hit it hard enough, the keeper has no chance no matter where it goes.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that every single person in Stamford Bridge this afternoon could have struck a better penalty than that and you can imagine that Moyes and some of the Hammers players will have been stifling themselves from belting out a hilarious laugh at the awfulness of it all.
One thinks the Italian might be ordered to give someone else a go from 12-yards in future if he insists on the pointless hop, skip and a jump every time because it clearly doesn’t work.
In other West Ham news, we’ve given the worst player at the club a 2/10 after a dreadful display on the other side of the capital.
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