Left footed penalty takers

[Beardsley]

I have absolutely no rationale to think so, but for some reason I'm always skeptical towards left footed players taking a penalty. I've tried to understand why I think so, but there's just not one thing I can put my finger on. It's like I think they're easier to read for the goalie or something. Anyway, I'm rambling...

 

Anybody else having the same feeling, or do I walk alone?

[Flasher]

You never hear anybody say "wand of a right foot"

 

Maybe it's just because you don't see many left footers. When a team does have a decent left footer, they often take penalties. A lot of left backs have been penalty takers, but not right backs.

[StevieC]

I have absolutely no rationale to think so, but for some reason I'm always skeptical towards left footed players taking a penalty. I've tried to understand why I think so, but there's just not one thing I can put my finger on. It's like I think they're easier to read for the goalie or something. Anyway, I'm rambling...

 

Anybody else having the same feeling, or do I walk alone?

 

 

Seek help.

[Mike]

It's one of the oldest memes in football. Sorry to break it to you Beardsley lad.

[Beardsley]

It's one of the oldest memes in football. Sorry to break it to you Beardsley lad.

 

 

He, he. Didn't know that. For one thing it proves I'm not the only one thinking it.

[BG]

I think Andreas Brehme tool penalties with either foot...

 

I'm pretty sure I remember being surprised in 1990 when he took the pen in the World Cup final with his right.

[Swipe]

My dad insists the opposite is true. That left-footed penalty takers are much better.

 

He hasn't provided any stats to back this up.

[kop205]

Berger took some for us I think, did ok from what I remember.

 

Didn't Ziege take a good one v Birmingham in Cardiff?

[downunder]

julian dicks? Stuart Pearce (usually)

[John am Rhein]

this goes back to when Martin Luther nailed his 95 faeces to the door of Wittenberg church in 1517

 

before that, pretty much all of europe was left-footed

[Nerik]

There is a school of thought amongst many pundits that left-footed penalty takers are more predictable. Never saw any stats to back that assertion.

[John am Rhein]

was it the ian harte (leeds united and eire) would threaten to take the pen with his left and dispatch it with his right (or vice versa)?

 

- no calvinist that one, obviously

shankly, they say, was prejudiced against left-footed goalkeepers...

 

i'm sure He wouldn't of had one of them taking a penalty - even if it was sudden death at 13-13 in the second leg of a protracted fairs cup tie after extra time and numerous indecisive tosses of the coin

[stonty]

Genius that he is, Messi sometimes changes foot to take a pen

[Nerik]

Here is a study. Similar % success for left-footers it seems:

 

http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~shazir/Analysis%20of%20penalties%20taken%20in%20shoot-outs.pdf

[Beardsley]

Here is a study. Similar % success for left-footers it seems:

 

http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~shazir/Analysis%20of%20penalties%20taken%20in%20shoot-outs.pdf

 

 

Excellent Thanks.

[Mick_G]

Kennedy '84 wasn't bad like

[Cobs]

Genius that he is, Messi sometimes changes foot to take a pen

That prick missed the most important one of his life

Kennedy '84 wasn't bad like

For every Kennedy '84 there's a Riise '05

Here is a study. Similar % success for left-footers it seems:

 

http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~shazir/Analysis%20of%20penalties%20taken%20in%20shoot-outs.pdf

Well, whaddyaknow?

[surf]

molby wasn't bad

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

Weird thing with Riise 05 was it was probably the one pen that was put exactly where the taker wanted it to go - bang in the corner. Fair play Dida, it was a good save

[Earl Hafler]

You think Didi meant to hit it somewhere else ?

 

 

Dida was worse going to his left. It was a stupid pen from Riise

[Ibby]

I think dida dived the same way for every pen if I remember

[Bologna]

Diego Armando Maradona

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

I think dida dived the same way for every pen if I remember

he did

 

And I remember - or I'm making this up - that the players were briefed about that

[New York Red]

Why are so many goalie's left footed then? Answer me that.

[John am Rhein]

Why are so many goalie's left footed then? Answer me that.

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