The final of the European Football Championship is approaching – as are usually the penalty shootouts before it

Football Advance to the playoffs in the European Championships.

Now let’s play once. In each game, a winner must emerge.

If not otherwise, then in the penalty shootout after regular time and the follow-up match.

In value competitions many matches are decided in the final straight only in a hard-fought race. That will happen this time as well.

At the end of the match, both teams shoot the penalty kick five times in turn. If the game is still tied after five rounds, a solution is sought by a pair of shooters at a time, one from each team.

The penalty shootout was introduced at the European Championships in 1976 and at the World Championships in 1978.

With the help of the ranking competition, many games have been solved in the final stages of the European Championships.

Soon there will be only eight teams left. In the history of the European Championship, almost 40 percent of the games of these teams have been decided after playing time with penalty kicks, they say The pages of the European football association UEFA.

Player shoots hard from 11 meters.

It’s just the right distance from the goal. That distance means a lot in that the hard-fought race has kept its excitement.

This is what dedicated football researchers say – at least there are enough of them in England.

Mita has its island kingdom traditions. The place of 11 meters was already decided in 1891 by the body that decided on the rules of football at the time, which was only active in the United Kingdom.

The location of that chalk spot was actually blessed in a different measure, in yards. The place of the comma was then at 12 yards.

It turns into 10.97 meters in the measurement conversion table. The position of that comma has not been changed in over 130 years.

One day the probability is about 70 percent in the penalty kicks of value competitions.

In the World Cup 2022, for example, 29 fouls were sentenced in game situations. 22 of those shots scored. The certainty of the shooters was therefore around 76 percent.

In this year’s EC qualifiers, before the final tournament, 88 penalty kicks were whistled during the games. Of them, 62 or 70 percent went to the finish line.

Bring seven out of ten successes, it brings just the right mix to the tough race. The shots have great goals, posts, miracle saves, all with a lot of drama.

If move the dot closer or further from 11 meters, the probability of a goal quickly increases or decreases.

That’s what the researchers say

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according to the British edition. Three meters away from the goal line, a player would shoot a goal with almost one hundred percent certainty.

Football writer John Wesson describes in his book The Science of Soccer (The science of football) perfect tough.

The ball would leave the leg at a speed of about 130 kilometers per hour. It would fly into the top corner of the goal. Such a shot would always hit the goal from up to 30 meters away.

If the ball travels at about 80 kilometers per hour, the goalkeeper has about a third of a second to block the ball.

That time is so short that it is close to the general reaction time of a person. The best sprinters have a reaction time of 0.142 seconds. The goalkeeper is therefore in such a hurry that he is often almost forced to guess.

In the last World Cup 2022, the defenders were fought off a little better than usual, says the player of the university series and an astronomer (!) John Harrison on Goalkeeper.com.

From Pilku, more than usual were sent to the border. From there, according to statistics, it is easier than usual to repel them.

Exeterin of the university recently studied the eye movement of players during a penalty kick.

They fitted 14 college football players with glasses that allowed them to track the kicker’s eye movements.

First, subjects were asked to try their best. On the second occasion, they were told that the best shooter in the test would receive a prize of £50.

This immediately increased the pressure of the penalty kick. Soccer players looked at the goalkeeper earlier and longer before kicking.

Eye tracking shows that even small factors make a difference. Football players are not robots.

Under heavy pressure, thoughts easily escape.

According to researchers from Bangor University in Wales, players often think wrong in this important position. They subconsciously evaluate all the options of their shot.

In European Championship shootouts, the knowledge that you can hit the post can override a more likely result.

English one credit player Harry Kane has succeeded in 87 percent of the hard-hitting national matches.

When Kane goes to the spot, he already has clear plans on how he is going to take the penalty, kertoo Wired.