Next time (if there is a next time) sub on Paulsen.
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2024/3/27/all-whites-at-the-acud-cup-penalties-penalties-penalties-vs-tunisia
For one thing, Bazeley should have made the same (keeper) substitution.
Starting with his time in the English National League back in 2014-15 all the way through to the game against Egypt the other day, Max Crocombe has only saved 3/25 penalties in his career (as recorded by Transfermarkt). He’s 0/4 this season with Burton Albion.
Oli Sail doesn’t have a good record against spot kicks either, as Phoenix fans will recall, but Wellington Phoenix fans also know that Alex Paulsen is outstanding in those situations. It would have been a wild way for the fella to make his debut but he’d have given the AWs a better hope in the shootout.
Meanwhile, Tunisia scored all four and Crocombe didn’t get a hand on any of them. They had the same first three takers who’d all scored against Croatia and they each repeated the dose. The guy who missed their fourth against the Croats had already been subbed while one of the other missers didn’t play and the third did but was overtaken in the pecking order by one of their subs who hadn’t played the previous match. They knew what they were doing.
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2024/3/27/all-whites-at-the-acud-cup-penalties-penalties-penalties-vs-tunisia
For one thing, Bazeley should have made the same (keeper) substitution.
Starting with his time in the English National League back in 2014-15 all the way through to the game against Egypt the other day, Max Crocombe has only saved 3/25 penalties in his career (as recorded by Transfermarkt). He’s 0/4 this season with Burton Albion.
Oli Sail doesn’t have a good record against spot kicks either, as Phoenix fans will recall, but Wellington Phoenix fans also know that Alex Paulsen is outstanding in those situations. It would have been a wild way for the fella to make his debut but he’d have given the AWs a better hope in the shootout.
Meanwhile, Tunisia scored all four and Crocombe didn’t get a hand on any of them. They had the same first three takers who’d all scored against Croatia and they each repeated the dose. The guy who missed their fourth against the Croats had already been subbed while one of the other missers didn’t play and the third did but was overtaken in the pecking order by one of their subs who hadn’t played the previous match. They knew what they were doing.