How do YOU take a Penalty?

Question

Just wondering what different peoples techniques are. Do you always go the same way? Do you think putting it to the right as a right footer is more difficult? Wait for the keeper to move? Give the keeper the eyes? Any goalies out there, what makes a pen more difficult to save?

Answer 1

just get two shots down that you can do over and over.  I do bottom right and top left.  I'm a leftie

Answer 2

dont hesitate on taking the shot

Answer 3

turn ur head the opposite direction of where you are shooting.  

Answer 4

I close my eyes and use as much toe as possible...

Answer 5

IDK? wish I could help ya but don't know what you need to know.

Answer 6

i dont always go the same way!the eyes most of the time!

Answer 7

I bend over and just brace myself, it hurts the first couple of slaps but...

Wait, we're talkign about different penalties here aren't we?

Answer 8

bottom corner, as close to the post as possible and as hard as you can hit it. a lot of practice and it'll become second nature.

Answer 9

i run up and it it hard in the V as i call it which is the top corner keepers can never save those no matter what. oh the side would depend on what mood i am in.

Answer 10

i put it down the bottom right corner every time as that's the way ive practiced and am now most confident doing and the one time i went left, i blazed it miles over! dont do anything with the eyes or watch the keeper as it just distracts me aswell!

Answer 11

I just look the goalkeeper straight in the eye and blast one where I want. I've hit the post once, but have been successful otherwise. Only one has been saved.

I'm left-footed. The thing that makes people like me such good penalty-takers is that nobody can predict where we're going to hit. Right-footers drag it to their left sides 95 times out of 100. Putting it to any side isn't difficult for me, or any left-footer. I've tried hard to be both like Gareth Barry and Zinedine Zidane.

Also, it helps not to have much of a run-up. Zidane was very effective without much of a run-up. Walk and blast is my technique too. It worked for him in the World Cup, and it works for me.

To make it difficult to save, don't look to where you want to hit it. Look straight and leave everything for the keeper to guess. Then, pick your spot. Bottom corners are unstopabble. It's easier to jump up and across to make a save than it is to get across and down. If you're right-footed, 95 times of 100 you hit to your right (no matter how bad you strike it), you will get a goal, as keepers are programmed to dive to their rights when facing a right-footer.

If you watched the Champions league final, you'll know what I'm talking about. If Terry had been on target with that weak shot, he'd have scored, as Van Der Sar was nowhere. Lampard scored against Liverpool in the semis much the same way.

You know where you want to hit it. Never change your mind at the last moment. Also, the walk and blast may not always work. If your run-up gives you power, run as much as you want. Blasting works for me, but it'll usually end up in Row Z if you don't aim. Power and precision are a deadly combination, both useless without the other.

If the keeper is right handed, put to his left, preferably bottom corner again. If the keeper is left-handed, put it to his right, bottom corner.

Last, but not least, concentrate. Don't let wannabe Dudeks put you off. Let them dance. Stare them in the eye, run and slot, as simple as that.

Answer 12

i always pass it in to the low right corner. and i'm right footed, so yeah i think kicking with your right foot and wanting it to go to the right is more difficult. and that's why i always kick right...because they're probably thinking there's a better chance the ball will go left. i don't really do anything tricky to the goalkeeper, i think it messes me up.