It would have been cool to see Japan pull that off.
Something that always cracks me up is when a player has an uncontested shot on goal and sails the ball 50 feet too high or when someone sends the ball directly at the goalie for a PK.
The unwritten rules of penalty kicks start by "if you aren't really comfortable with precision kicks, just hit the ball as hard as you can and aim for the center of the goal", or as we say down here, "pegale fuerte y al medio".
Yep. And if the goalie decides to just stand his ground the shooter looks kinda like a buffoon.
That almost never happens. You can easily fool a goalkeeper by just starting your run before the kick slightly angled, so he thinks you'll aim for the corners.Yep. And if the goalie decides to just stand his ground the shooter looks kinda like a buffoon.
But in essence, the penalties stage is a lottery. From the goalkeeper's view the goal measures half a kilometer across, and from the kicker's, it's smaller than an ice hockey one.
yeah. But even so I don't really get your point.
95% of the French team were born in France.
In order to qualify to play for your country you only need to have one parent of that nationality or be born in the country. Same as citizenship /passport
I agree Messi deserves a WC.
And that he's one of the best players ever.
I've been arguing for a while that they could just move the penalty spot back so it's less of a ridiculous guessing game and would better emphasize player skill.
How about from the centre spot and having basketball net placed on the crossbar taking the poor keepers out of the equation completely?
I have no idea what you're on about.
I'm just suggesting increasing the range from the spot to the goal so that the keeper has a chance of saving a shot not purely based on guessing correctly or the player taking the penalty screwing up.
Not going well for South Korea.
Keeper pysch'd him on the penalty and then didn't dive to the side he'd wanted him to shoot...
Keeper pysch'd him on the penalty and then didn't dive to the side he'd wanted him to shoot...
It was pretty much from the start if you ask me...
Allegedly...
I don't know much but I know that was pretty sweet.
Totally bizarre, this match... I keep waiting for Morocco to run out of gas, but whatever they are doing seems to be working?
They've had the better chances when I've been able to watch, like the one they just missed.
It's really quite impressive.
I smell another penalty lottery definition...
and again Morocco had a chance to shoot and he failed...
If Ingerlund loose to France, I'm all in for Morocco
This is still nuts. As a keeper who has had to do a shoot out, this is textbook. Not sure if it was luck or intuition, but he was on.