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BURGE HAPPY WITH PENALTY SAVE

Updated: Jul 17, 2023



Lee Burge reckons he has Sunderland's goalkeeping coach, Lee Butler, to thank for his penalty save against Gillingham. "We always study the penalty takers," he said. "We've got Butts [Butler] who put them down on a sheet for me before every game. We've got try and guess which way they're going to go and try and make them go the way we want them to go. We looked them up at where they go, we've analysed them and we worked on thinking about where they were going to go. You have to try and have a good memory because sometimes there's about eight people that could come up and take a penalty. But thankfully today one of the people that we analysed took it. I always try and analyse it, but it's how you feel in the game as well. You have to try and make them go the way you want them to go, and stuff like that. Thankfully, we got it right and I saved a penalty for the team. It gave the team a boost that we're still at 0-0 and we know we can go and win it now. It made a massive difference for us."

Surprisingly, Jordan Graham's spot-kick was Gillingham’s only shot on target on Saturday. "It was a quiet afternoon, obviously until the penalty and a few other bits. But that's