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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Tell that to the American women. They missed two penalty shots. One was blocked but the other was poorly kicked. It knocked them out of contention for the first time in, well, forever.
I believe that goalies study the tendencies of the people who are most likely to take penalty kicks so that they can make an educated guess as to where the shot is going to go. But I hate penalty kicks. They should keep playing until one team scores a legit goal. I get that it is a long match and there is a lot of running but you can allow for an extra sub with each new over time period. Penalty shots suck and need to go away.
And yes, I played soccer. Not at the professional level but enough to know how badly it would suck to play longer but the penalty shots are a cheap way to end a good match. Basketball games don't go to free throws and football doesn't go to field goal kicks. Just keep playing until someone scores.
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Sudden death overtime has been experimented with (so called Golden Goal). I think that there were two major issues with it;
1. Play tended to get very negative, i.e. teams started to play very defensively, the fear of losing overcoming the desire to win
2. If the knockout match was during a competition that took place during the regular season (e.g. the FA Cup in the UK), the extended play could have a material effect on that regular season
I personally like the penalty shoot outs. For what it's worth, I played to junior professional level (a good number of years ago!).