Liverpool Vs Man City Capital One Cup Final - Match Thread

[Aidan O' Neill]

Maybe youtube will have all his penalties to show you.

 

[Hyena]

It's about margin for error isn't it?

The ideal shot would be to the extreme top corners just under the crossbar. 100% unsave-able. But there are so many ways that could go wrong. You have to get the angle right, as well as the elevation, run up, strength etc. Couple that with the honest truth that not everyone on the team is Gerrard.

So if you have to prepare a team for a penalty shootout, the best approach is to enforce a rule that everyone is going for the low corners. Hit them hard enough, and there's a 80% chance of scoring even if the keeper goes the right way.

Make it a RULE, then train train train train. Then you won't have players going up there with wild thoughts running through their heads like "should I run up, then pause, and hit a weak shot to the corner anyway?" or "I'll hit it somewhere randomly down the centre left and hope for the best." Because you've already decided, and your players have trained a 1000 times hitting the same shot they're going to take.

 

[Mamma Mia]

According to QI, penalties hit straight down the middle have the highest chance of success. Players rarely do it for fear of embarrassment on the occasions it is saved.

Of course if players did it more often, the chances of it succeeding would drop over time.

 

[Ryan]

What is Ryan's problem with the word "erstwhile"? He's now used it in several different contexts, but never the right one.

I did a quick search. The last time I used it on this forum was 7 years ago my erstwhile friend.

 

[gkmacca]

According to QI, penalties hit straight down the middle have the highest chance of success. Players rarely do it for fear of embarrassment on the occasions it is saved.

Of course if players did it more often, the chances of it succeeding would drop over time.

Yes. Keepers study where players usually put them. If more players did put them down the middle, more keepers would save them. One more reason why that bunch of bourgeois divs on QI are talking shite.

 

[manwithnoname]

I did a quick search. The last time I used it on this forum was 7 years ago my erstwhile friend.

You didn't go to all that trouble? I'm impressed. Although, in my defence I think I was absent for 6 of those years

 

[Comical Aly]

I did a quick search. The last time I used it on this forum was 7 years ago my erstwhile friend.

It won't show up in your searches because you usually spell it wrong.