Man Utd star Pogba slammed for ‘showman’ penalty theatrics and Solskjaer branded ‘amateurish’ by spot-kick king Le Tissier
SOUTHAMPTON legend and spot-kick king Matt Le Tissier has slammed Paul Pogba and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer over their approaches to penalties.
Manchester United star Pogba became the sixth worst penalty taker EVER in the Premier League after his miss against Wolves last month.
While Solskjaer has come under fire for allowing the Frenchman, 26, and Marcus Rashford to decide who takes penalties.
And Le Tiss - who scored 25 of 26 Prem pens - told : "Paul Pogba’s penalty record is far worse than that of Marcus Rashford.
"I was never overly keen on Pogba’s run-up because it used to take so long, it became a bit of theatre and he wasn’t taking it seriously.
"It was all about trying to promote himself as being the big showman and the big ‘Here I am’ without concentrating on the job in hand.
"The way Rashford takes penalties is actually far better and if I was the manager he would be the designated penalty-taker."
Le Tissier, 50, revealed that he won a competition in training to take penalties and aimed a dig at Solskjaer's approach.
He added: "It does cause confusion if you have two nominated penalty-takers and you just go, ‘Well, let’s see who fancies it on the day’.
"That’s not professional, it’s amateurish, schoolboy stuff and that comes down to the manager.
"In that situation, the manager needs to be stronger and just go, ‘Right, you’re the best at penalties, you’re my penalty-taker, if you’re not on the pitch then he can take them, but up until that point, you take them’.
"We had a penalty competition in training to decide who was going to be taking penalties in matches and I won that. ‘I was 20 when I became penalty-taker and there was never any question when I was on the pitch, it was my right and that was my job."
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Pogba’s saved effort against Wolves saw him plummet to sixth worst in Premier League history from a list of players who have taken more than ten spot kicks.
With 11 taken the midfielder has missed four, with his conversion rate dropping to 64 per cent.
Juan Pablo Angel, Riyad Mahrez, Steed Malbranque, Dwight Yorke, and Kevin Phillips have all got worse penalty records than Pogba.