MLS 2009: Penalties Earned & Conceded
| A list of all penalties can be found on the league stats page (scroll to the bottom). However, on that page they don't list who earned and conceded the penalties like they used to a few years back. I've always missed that, so I keep track of it myself by looking through match reports. This seems to be the year of the handball. The past four years have seen 10, 10, 6, and 6 handballs result in penalties. We still have a third of the 2009 season to go, and already there's been 14. All four players with two penalties conceded have been called twice for handballs in the box (Omar Gonzalez twice in the same game). The Columbus Crew's Danny O'Rourke is nowhere to be found on the conceded list after giving up a remarkable and possibly record breaking four penalties last year (several of which may have been dubious, but oh well). However, one man is making waves for earning penalties: DC United's Christian Gomez. He's already earned three penalties this year. The last player to earn three in a single season was Carlos Ruiz in 2005. Penalties Earned
Penalties Conceded
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posted by scaryice at 5:17 AM
Comments on "MLS 2009: Penalties Earned & Conceded"
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Anonymous said ... (1:06 PM, August 05, 2009) :
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Anonymous said ... (2:31 PM, August 05, 2009) :
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scaryice said ... (3:49 PM, August 05, 2009) :
post a commentOf the 3 PK's that RSL has conceded, Rimando has saved 2 of them
Ferreira "drew" one of those handballs, imho. I guess there's no way to keep track to that, is there?
I could keep track of that, I just don't feel that it should count as an earned penalty.