Everton's wait for a penalty finally came to an end on Saturday.
It had gone on so long - Everton became the only Premier League team not to have been awarded a spot kick months ago - there was almost a cruel inevitably it would be missed.
Sean Dyche later backed Beto's penalty prowess but there has been a lot of talk since the match about who should have stepped up with regular taker Dominic Calvert-Lewin on the bench.
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Everton could perhaps be forgiven for being a bit rusty when it comes to penalty-taking given that until Saturday’s game against West Ham United, it had been over 10 months since they were awarded one but for all Beto’s confidence in grabbing the ball before the spot-kick had even been given, I wouldn’t let him take the next one.
Sean Dyche says Everton’s players practice penalties in training and he and his staff monitor who is doing well yet slotting them away when up against your mates at Finch Farm cannot truly replicate game situations, especially when 73 spot-kicks are dished out to every other Premier League club this season before your team got one. To his credit, Beto kept on plugging away and got his goal against the Hammers with a second half header and he was one of the Blues players who slotted in from 12 yards out in the penalty shoot-out against Fulham in December.
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