Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson says he will demand to take the potentially decisive fifth kick if Saturday’s Champions League final against Chelsea has to be decided by a penalty shootout.
The Brazil international has been among the players who have practising their penalties in the build-up to the showdown in Porto.
Asked about possibly stepping up in a penalty shootout, Ederson told TNT Sports in Brazil: ‘I am [on the list to take a penalty]. I don’t need to train that much, but the fifth one, I’m taking it.
‘The last one, the decisive, I’ll ask for it…’
Previously Ederson had joked that he is the best penalty taker at the club, but boss Pep Guardiola will not allow him to take them..
‘I don’t train much free-kicks. I trained penalties and when I played for Riberao I took some free-kicks but that is in the past now,’ Ederson said. ‘I am the best penalty taker but I am not chosen to take them!
Back-up keeper Scott Carson revealed Ederson had been among the players practising their penalties in the build-up to the clash.
Carson told the Manchester Evening News: ‘He has smashed a few at me and Zack [Steffen] and it’s one of them where you actually want him to score, you don’t want the ball to hit you because he smashes it that hard.
‘It does hurt! He takes a few every now and then and seems to find the side-netting every single time, and with the power. It’s incredible.’
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