One of the worst things any player can do when tasked with taking a penalty is to try something clever and fail spectacularly. Brilliant when it comes off, infuriating for the fans and embarrassing for the player when it doesn’t.

With the pressure on the pitch, even taking a text book penalty isn’t as easy as it looks, but here, working with Adidas, Ashley Young shows us how easy it can be on the training pitch.

I don’t think he’ll be trying any of those tricks when it comes to the next one (although I’d love to see him try the third one!), but he has said he won’t automatically hand penalty duties over to Darren Bent:

I am a strong character. I won’t dwell on the penalty miss. I have scored penalties and I have missed some too – and I have always bounced back from them. I won’t let it get me down and it won’t stop me taking another. I definitely will take another.

I am sure Benty will have his say on the next one. We will have to wait and see. Let’s see how kind I’m feeling when the next one comes along. I’ll see if I let him take it or not.

And on the missed penalty:

People may talk about the delay before I took it or their goalkeeper encouraging me to hit it to his right but I wasn’t even aware he was doing that. I was totally focused on the penalty.

The last few I have taken I haven’t even looked at the goalkeeper before hitting it. It’s been head-down.

With this one, I stepped up and just hit it the way that I have done with the others I have scored previously.

My bet, since I don’t think Ash is someone who admits defeat easily, is that he will step up with a point to prove when the next penalty comes along. I’d put money on him scoring it too. I wonder wonder the odds would be.