KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Simon Mignolet. Potential Liverpool Legend.

Imagine the scenario.
Real Madrid 4-4 Liverpool.

Extra time played out. 2 subs used.

One player left on the bench who can actually help.

On comes Mignolet for Karius. Karius the better keeper subbed in 120th minute for penalty King Mignolet. Saves 3 pens. All his mistakes forgotten. Plays his last game for us and leaves as a legend.

Then he can get sold for 3mil to Stoke.

As far fetched that scenario is, I’ll take it as long as we win the CL.

Haha. I'd love that scenario to kick in!

You're telling me that's far fetched,like anyone would pay £3m for him.

If it went to penalties. I'd take Mignolet over a lot of other keepers.

That should have been on my few thoughts list from yesterday!
I don't think there's many Managers around who'd do that Mr Bo and cetainly not Klopp.
Karius is awful with pens, I've not seen him get near one, for our sakes we should pray the final doesn't go to pens.

He saved one against Kane, didn't Van Gaal do that in the World Cup? subbed the keeper for penalties.

He did do it.

Took off cillessen for krul I think.

I said in another thread, that I'd put him in for the Final. Karius is no better - he has benefitted from the defence getting their act together, that's all. Mignolet would have done just as well in the last few months.
Not sure where to check the stats, but there can't be an EPL keeper around today that has saved more penalties than Mignolet. And a shootout is quite likely - I think there have been 12 or 13 finals that have gone to penalties.
Would that decision annoy Karius? Yes - but so what? Every decision Klopp makes must be taken to benefit the 'club'.

I agree we do what is best for the team.

What we can say is that since Karius, VvD & Robertson have played together we have improved allot in defence, that could have happened with Migs in goal, but we don't know that.

The current defence has played together for 5 months, so they are used to each other, VvD has never played with Migs as far as I know, Robbo has hardly played with Migs, so changing GK now would be a massive risk and a mistake IMO.

It's not as if Migs is some returning superstar keeper worth the risk, they are pretty similar IMO, but Karius has more potential as he is young, but neither is long term good enough if we want to win the PL. I think having Migs on the bench for a penalty shoot out is worth a go, he's on the bench anyways, would be a massive call on the night.