Best way to take a penalty ?
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This + pick a corner and stick to it.
Keepers can dive but they can't fly, therefore they're always going towards the ground.
So about 3ft high and a foot inside the post gives you a reasonable margin of error...and the Blammo takes care of the rest.
LEONARD
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He would whack it as hard as he could, straight down the middle.
They usually went in, I seem to remember.
mmmmsnouts
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Smash it in the side netting and it doesn’t matter what the keeper does
gonetomorrow
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Pay someone to research every penalty that every goalie you're likely to encounter has faced.
Then just blast it.
Then just blast it.
I always used to aim for the post but put a bit of curl on it so it sneaked just inside.
summerisle
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Not this.
You've got to do a Razor Ruddock really.
Obviously postage stamp is virtually unstoppable, but it's easy to get wrong / mis-direct the ball and it goes over, etc. Panenka is gorgeous but so difficult to master, plus if the keeper stays still you look like a bell. Side-footed into a corner is imo safer than postage stamp, but goalkeepers with a big reach, if they guess the right way, can save these.
Absolutely belting it full force just off-centre is the best way!
Obviously postage stamp is virtually unstoppable, but it's easy to get wrong / mis-direct the ball and it goes over, etc. Panenka is gorgeous but so difficult to master, plus if the keeper stays still you look like a bell. Side-footed into a corner is imo safer than postage stamp, but goalkeepers with a big reach, if they guess the right way, can save these.
Absolutely belting it full force just off-centre is the best way!
4737carlin
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Ask Ross Barkley to take it for you
Mutzo Nutzo
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Here's the original - Ajax doing it in 82.
The binman chronicles
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My son is a goalkeeper and has played at a good level. He has been involved in nine penalty shoot outs and never lost. He always said that if you can get the penalty taken to make eye contact you can generally work out which way they will go. That and the way the taker shapes his body on the run up.
Recently I was watching him play in a GAA match, his team were a point up with only seconds to go when the opposition were awarded a penalty which he saved. Talking afterwards he said he knew he would save it because of the pressure the taker was under to score.
When I played I always volunteered to take the first penalty, I took the first in a cup final. When everyone was standing about looking at the ground I spoke up and said give me the ball, I'll go first. Luckily I scored and we won, In his speech after the match the manager waxed lyrical about me leading the way by example. I later explained my logic, I was depending on someone else missing if I missed, if you miss 4 or 5 then you are more to blame. I'd rather miss the first than the last.
Recently I was watching him play in a GAA match, his team were a point up with only seconds to go when the opposition were awarded a penalty which he saved. Talking afterwards he said he knew he would save it because of the pressure the taker was under to score.
When I played I always volunteered to take the first penalty, I took the first in a cup final. When everyone was standing about looking at the ground I spoke up and said give me the ball, I'll go first. Luckily I scored and we won, In his speech after the match the manager waxed lyrical about me leading the way by example. I later explained my logic, I was depending on someone else missing if I missed, if you miss 4 or 5 then you are more to blame. I'd rather miss the first than the last.
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