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> Smashing a ball into the top corner [without needing to think about it] is also unsaveable and popular with elite penalty takers, but the margin for error in
by allendoerfer 5y ago
> Smashing a ball into the top corner [without needing to think about it] is also unsaveable and popular with elite penalty takers, but the margin for error in how you actually kick the ball is smaller: a slight miscue and your penalty is off target (or a "nice height" for a keeper that reads where you're shooting).
I like the fact, that penalties on the sides of the goal above a height of about 1,5m are unsaveable (you do not even have to hit the corner), but still world-class players miss, because they get nervous, so they often do not dare to just do that. It should be a game like tic tac toe: Totally solved, the keeper should lose every round, but yet he does not. Makes the game human.