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penalty shootouts are after a 90 or 120 minute gameplay so the fitness is very important and also I have a superstition that if you watch the penalties you'll lose. Do not watch them , commentary is enough
I always like to keep a couple of good penalty takers on the bench & think about this when selecting my starting line-up. I.e. if I have two forwards, both equally as good but was has a higher penalty taking attribute, stick him on the bench & then bring him on later in the game rather than the other way round, that way you have better penalty takers on.
I've usually already lost or won by this point. Usually the former.
I choose my penalty takers by a simple formula - composure + penalty taking = awesome. Quite often, a player with high composure but poor penalty taking and finishing will do better than a decent taker with terrible nerves.
I give my key penalties to the best guys, but it's up to you which order you put them in. They are the first one (want to get off to a good start), the third one (which can win it or send you out) and the the fifth one (the pressure one). After that, it's a war of attrition, but I obviously put them in order of how good they are.
I've only had one shoot out in the past few months of playing, and I won it 4-2 against a part-time Czech side.
if you watch the penalties you'll lose. Do not watch them , commentary is enough
True. I have always lost penalty shootouts when I am watching. Because when I am watching, my keeper is so prone to going the wrong way or msot of the time, not even moving at all. I even change it to commentary mode and I then have a slightly higher chance of winning the shootout.
I give my key penalties to the best guys, but it's up to you which order you put them in. They are the first one (want to get off to a good start), the third one (which can win it or send you out) and the the fifth one (the pressure one). After that, it's a war of attrition, but I obviously put them in order of how good they are.
The third is highly unlikely to ever be decisive. It would mean one team would have to score all their penalties and the other should miss all of theirs.
Its the fourth one which is most of the time the key one. After that, they're all key...
Originally posted by Benoit2:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Millie:
I give my key penalties to the best guys, but it's up to you which order you put them in. They are the first one (want to get off to a good start), the third one (which can win it or send you out) and the the fifth one (the pressure one). After that, it's a war of attrition, but I obviously put them in order of how good they are.
The third is highly unlikely to ever be decisive. It would mean one team would have to score all their penalties and the other should miss all of theirs.
Its the fourth one which is most of the time the key one. After that, they're all key... </BLOCKQUOTE>
But the third one can make or break the shoot out. I agree, the fourth one is more likely to be the winning (or losing) kick, but scoring the third takes a little of the pressure off the fourth.
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