There’s a lot of talk of the best strategy for penalty shootouts, and I’m wondering what top teams in international football now employ.
The reason I ask is that after the England-Swiss game, there was talk about how now you put the best penalty takers up first and FOURTH, as apparently fourth is the most important one, but I never knew this.
And also there is an ‘optimum’ pause between when the whistle goes and when you take the penalty, but what is it?!
Any information would be appreciated.
Ty
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I’m going to talk as my experience from when I was a football player.
The penalty shootout doesn’t have deep tactics, there isn’t an obvious advantage of big teams against small teams. In my country it’s even called the penalties lottery because of it.
What we can observe is how the players can handle the pressure after being playing for over 120 minutes, when everyone is mentally and physically exhausted. Here the experience from the players of big teams may be more used and prepared for it.
However, it’s not just luck, some goalkeepers do their homework and study how the opponents usually do on such occasions, if ever. As for the strikers, the best ones are very unpredictable and mislead the goalkeeper with subtle body movements before kicking the ball.
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