| Gerken on penalties 10:05 - Jan 20 with 4620 views | Keaneish |
I've never understood why any keeper would guess which way the ball is going. As a keeper you're immediately putting yourself at 50% disadvantage. If he waits until the ball is kicked he's at least got a chance to go the right way and get his body somewhere near it. If it's a good pen then so be it but anything less and he's in with a sniff of a save.
Every time we conceed a pen now it's a guaranteed goal. Look at Pickford or Paul Cooper for that matter. Not the biggest keepers but you always fancy / fancied them to pull off a save because they wait for the ball to be kicked. No point reading the man. The man doesn't need saving!
Jimmy Walker, have a word. |  |
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| Gerken on penalties on 23:18 - Jan 20 with 363 views | JamestownPrince |
| Gerken on penalties on 22:57 - Jan 20 by ITFC_Forever |
That penalty yesterday was so poor, weak and near the centre that any half-decent goalkeeper should have stood a good chance of saving it. |
I wonder if he or the club look at the other teams penalty stats and where they may place them,
He also had no idea what to do for Dacks free kick... Motionless |  | | |
| Gerken on penalties on 01:22 - Jan 21 with 338 views | The_Last_Baron |
| Gerken on penalties on 14:26 - Jan 20 by Guthrum |
The speed of a football, kicked hard, is around 90mph. That works out as 44 yards per second.
From the penalty spot to the goal-line is 12 yards, which a 90mph ball would cover in 0.27 seconds.
The reaction times for an athlete are in the region of 0.16 seconds.
That would leave the goalie only 0.11 seconds to travel from the centre of the goalmouth to, potentially, the edge.
To cover the four yards from the centre of the goal to the post on either side in just 0.11 seconds would require a standing leap with an average speed of 74mph. I'm pretty sure that's not possible.
Anticipation (deciding which way to go) removes that reaction time and gives a far better chance of getting to the ball.
Also, as with a batsman in cricket (who gets almost twice the time to react and is allowed to move before the ball is released), the 'keeper will be able to use things about the run-up and shape of the kicker to work out which way the ball is likely to go. A clever penalty taker will try to disguise that. [Post edited 20 Jan 2019 14:35]
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It is not 90mph. What bolloxios.
Any shot over 60mph is considered extremely fast. There has never been a footballer who could hit a pen at 90mph. |  |
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