and then approached him and hit that ball into the spot ok now the problem
that I have with that is I've missed too many penalty kicks doing that sort of thing
I've either had the ball or hit the post about 11 in but sometimes you hit the
post and goes out and sometimes you miss the neck and you try to hit it too hard
and I just wanted to get a strategy that would work a lot more were much higher
percentage so at least 90 to 100 percent of the penalty shots so what I started to do is
a little different and what I was actually watching was players like
Eden Hazard Thomas Mueller even Mario Balotelli went through a period
where he scored like 20 penalty kicks in a row and they were doing this one thing
and what it is they're not actually worried about the spot that they're
hitting there worried about where the goalkeeper is they're looking at the
goalkeeper so instead I'm setting up like I normally would like I'm gonna
pound the ball in the corner I start my run up even like a nice quick run-up
to make him think im gonna blast the ball because the goalkeeper's
trying to predict which side you're gonna shoot based on the way that
you approach the ball and we'll talk about that a little bit but I'll come to that
so I run at the ball and then actually pick my head up and look at the goalkeeper
and when he guesses to one side you can see he favors right or left and
i can see you want to go there and then I'll just pass it into the corner and
again it doesn't have to be super hard shot because I've taken the
goalkeeper
out of the equation so I'll show you a couple of penalties but that's basically the
idea put the ball down on the spot here take a couple of
steps back you can make your own routine this is what I do when I come off to the
side like this and then I approach the ball I really make a
strong run-up then at the last second I saw that ok he gambled that side he
thought I was going to shoot it there and then I just passed the ball into the corner and
as you can see because I'm making that run up it's really hard for the
goalkeeper not to guess to one side because that's what he's been trained to do so
let's take a little look at exactly what it looks like from a goalkeeper's
perspective and how they wanna stop you in a penalty shootout
here's the perspective of the goalkeeper and basically what I want to show you is
what you're telling the goalkeeper as you're approaching the ball you're
taking your penalty kick in the penalty shootout and
because if we're doing what we said putting the ball down just picking one
spot and going there no matter what your gonna tell the keeper lot of things with
your body position ok so first of all if I approached him more like this and I'm
very open to the ball where does that look like I'm going obviously I'm going
over to this corner now I know you may be opening up at the last second but
goal keepers are trained to react at the last second so just by showing them that
you may be offering them too much they may be stopping your penalty kick if I'm
very closed to the ball like this
the goalkeeper can see that I want to go that way let me hit a couple ok so again
I approached them all and I'm very open shows that I'm going there the whole
time again if I approached him on I'm very closed I'm not opening my body I'm
closing it ok two posts
you can see you as the goalkeeper can see where you want to go so that may be
telling him too much so if you are going to put the ball down and you're just
gonna hit that spot you and you're not going to look at the goalkeeper like I suggest you're
just gonna hit that spot then think about trying to sell the goalkeeper one
way or fake one way ok so maybe I'm going to open like this and then at
the last second I'm going to close and I'll go the other way they are trying to show him
one way with my body language and then I'll go to the other side at the last
second to again put the ball now I approached the ball I'm really open here
and then I can close it if I'm really open i'm looking that way he's probably
gonna guess that way and I can go the other way so even when I'm doing my
penalty when I talked about putting the ball down I'm faking like I'm gonna blast
and then I look at where the keepers going before that point I might actually be
selling him I might want to go that way and then I'll see that he went that way
and I just passed in the corner nice and gently ok that's what I want you think
about