maybe he's historically great at taking pens. no idea. but was surprised by this. any ideas why?

He took a FK against Saints that hit the base of the post, so he obviously knows his way around a dead ball. He said in his interview he's been practising them for a couple of weeks.

This plus when you think Arsenal keeper was about 3 foot off his line and dived the right way and it STILL found the corner suggests we have a master set-piece taker on our hands.

There was literally not an inch to spare with his pen when the Goalkeeper was stretched that much. It wasn't a matter of going one way and the keeper the other, he had get it right in the side-netting and looked like he did with ease.

Sam was pissed at how many we squandered and set a specific penalty taker who has to practice on the training ground. Mili looks the bizz and as long as he keeps scoring he will stay on as designated no.1 penalty kicker. It's basics of management having that sorted and the sh*tshow of Pardew having no proper kicker probably cost us about 6 points this season.

Because unlike every other penalty taken this season he actually looked like he really would score.

He didn't really have a clarified position though. When asked after Benteke missed who was going to take them he said along the lines of 'whoever wants to, but we will have to look at them'. For a while it was Yohan, and he missed a couple, if he played it was Jedi, or Wickham, and then when Benteke arrived it was sort of him. I think just sitting down and saying 'Luka, you have got bottle, you take pens' is a very important thing for Sam to have done. I knew Luka would score last night, I put him down as first goal scorer and should have really bet anytime goal scorer. The guy is just a monster.