Chelsea’s new signing and German striker, Timo Werner has welcomed the opportunity to become the team’s first-choice penalty kick taker following his two successful penalty goals during the Blues’ 3-0 home victory against Rennes in the Champions League.
The German international was the one to step up for Chelsea when they got a penalty call after a long VAR intervention. Jorginho’s recent failure in converting penalties made the Chelsea coach, Frank Lampard to change his decision. The two goals from Penalties against Rennes helped Werner to increase his goal tally.
The 24 years old former RB Leipzig striker showed his clinical finishing during penalty kicks by making no mistake in scoring and cruising the Blues to their comfortable win in the UCL.
The Blues’ coach also confirmed in the post-match interview about Werner replacing the penalty kick taking responsibilities from Jorginho and the German attacker has happily accepted his responsibilities.
“Before the game, the manager told me I was on penalties,” Werner told BT Sport post-match. “I had two today, which is a little bit crazy, but I’ll take it. Good goals for a striker, and I hope I can go on like this.
“I think when you want to score 20 or more goals, then you have a to take a few penalties in the season. That’s the thing that gives strikers the goals, when you are at the high levels.
“I’m happy Jorgi is cool with that and I think it’s another point that speaks for our team, we have no selfish players, and we want to go in one direction.”
Werner even said that if a striker targets to score 20 or more goals in a season, he should take it and also increases the confidence sometimes in a match.
Lampard’s side could only score one goal from the open play in the whole match despite a Rennes player, Dalbert was sent controversially from the match, making them a man down.
Tammy Abraham was the one to score the other goal for Chelsea early in the second half and it Werner admitted that his team should have taken more advantage of their numerical strength in matches like this when the opposition is down to one man short.
