Brentford are so assured in Bryan Mbeumo’s penalty-taking skills his team-mates are celebrating earlier than he even strikes the ball.
Towards Crystal Palace, Yoane Wissa raised each his arms and began working in direction of the Brentford followers earlier than Mbeumo had even began his run up.
The Cameroon ahead duly hit the online in his retaining his 100% spot-kick document within the Premier League.
However Mbeumo did require a slice of excellent fortune to maintain his document. His preliminary effort hit the within of the put up, however a retake was ordered after a prolonged video assistant referee (VAR) evaluate noticed Palace’s Marc Guehi coming into the penalty space earlier than the ball was struck.
It made Wissa’s confidence in his team-mate all of the extra telling.
After the match, Brentford supervisor Thomas Frank referred to as Mbeumo the Premier League’s finest penalty-taker.
“We had the [best] earlier than [in Ivan Toney] and now now we have a second one,” Frank mentioned.
“Mbeumo has very, superb mentality, composure and focus. I feel it is trusting the method, trusting his technique, so he did precisely the identical as he is doing for each single penalty and he is aware of that is what he must do sooner or later.”
How does Mbeumo’s document examine?
Since his first in December, 2021, Mbeumo has scored 10 penalties in all competitions in English soccer, lacking none.
With regards to simply Premier League spot-kicks, solely Cole Palmer, Raul Jimenez and Yaya Toure have taken greater than the 25-year-old’s 9 with out failing to attain.
Brentford’s final penalty-taking talisman was Toney who scored 11 from 12 yards within the English prime flight, however even he missed his penultimate effort for the Bees.
With Mbeumo reprieved by VAR on Sunday, he took his second likelihood with a leaping run-up simply earlier than he hit the ball, ready for goalkeeper Dean Henderson to dive the fallacious manner.
“By no means doubt Bryan,” mentioned team-mate Nathan Collins. “We’re all so assured in him and he is assured in himself. To do this in your second one, it is unreal.”
Requested about Wissa’s early celebration, Mbeumo mentioned it was right down to their pair’s friendship “on and off the pitch”.
“If one among us scores, then we’re actually comfortable for the opposite,” Mbeumo informed Sky Sports activities.
He added his successful penalty-taking components was right down to “simply focusing myself”.
“It is all psychological at this level,” he added. “I do know I work quite a bit and I simply wanted to do the enterprise.”
