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So many keepers commit and make it easy for this type of penalty taker. If more acted like Pope, far more would be saved and this style would probably fade away.
So many keepers commit and make it easy for this type of penalty taker. If more acted like Pope, far more would be saved and this style would probably fade away.
I hate goalkeepers guessing. If it was a shot from there in open play they wouldn't fling themselves in the opposite direction, they would react and try and save the bloomin' thing.
I can confirm I know more about this than any top goalkeeper or coach, as I once saved a penalty in the playground when I was 9 with this technique.
Pen takers like to knock it down the middle, as the stats show they are more likely to score. But if you look at the top pen takers who score the most, they hit them properly and hard.
So, the states are skewed by lots of bad penalty takers (lower league players), whereas the elite takers (remember these are all supposed to be elite footballers) smack them hard.
And of course players like Shearer would smack 'em as well. If you hit them low and hard and the keeper fumbles it, it goes in anyway; if they save it, you have a great chance at the rebound as you are likly to be the first to that rebound.
But there is a catch: you have to be accurate when hitting it this hard, and not all players can do this, so you should only let the real pen takers take them.
How do we know? Our very own Kevin Gallen has done the science. Here are the results in this YouTube video:
Who should take QPR's pens in our current squad? Well, Madsen is supposed to be a master at these. The problem is he has to be on the pitch running about (please no more, my ribs).
Pen takers like to knock it down the middle, as the stats show they are more likely to score. But if you look at the top pen takers who score the most, they hit them properly and hard.
So, the states are skewed by lots of bad penalty takers (lower league players), whereas the elite takers (remember these are all supposed to be elite footballers) smack them hard.
And of course players like Shearer would smack 'em as well. If you hit them low and hard and the keeper fumbles it, it goes in anyway; if they save it, you have a great chance at the rebound as you are likly to be the first to that rebound.
But there is a catch: you have to be accurate when hitting it this hard, and not all players can do this, so you should only let the real pen takers take them.
How do we know? Our very own Kevin Gallen has done the science. Here are the results in this YouTube video:
Who should take QPR's pens in our current squad? Well, Madsen is supposed to be a master at these. The problem is he has to be on the pitch running about (please no more, my ribs).
The penalty Madsen took for us, was belted in.
Celars attempt went into orbit and this season, Frey took one like Eze and hit it at a velocity of 0.12mph, directly at the goalkeeper.
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