Daily Mail

Vardy penalty call left me cold

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JAMIE VARDY is Leicester’s first-choice penalty-taker. if he is on the pitch, he takes them. But coming straight off the bench to take that spot-kick at Wembley, the odds were always going to be stacked against him. after sitting on a chilly bench for an hour, how can you be at your sharpest? The last time Vardy would have touched the ball would have been during the substitute­s’ half-time warm-up. i understand why Claude Puel may not have wanted James maddison to take it. Gerard Houllier never wanted the player who had been fouled for the penalty to take it. He did not feel they would be in the right frame of mind — though i never agreed with that view. Thrust into the action and tasked with dragging his team back into the game, Vardy was arguably under more pressure.

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