Scientists find secret of perfect penalty save to counter perfect penalty kick
Last week researchers at Liverpool John Moores University said that by analyzing hours of football footage, they have determined the formula for ensuring a goal. According to them, the player has should approach the ball at an angle of 20 to 30 degrees and hit it at a speed of at least 105kmph and aim for one of the top corners. Ideally the ball should pass exactly half a metre inside the crossbar and either one of the goalposts.
But now to the relief of goal-keepers, researchers at Sports Technology Research Group at Loughborough University have discovered an antidote to the perfect penalty kick - a perfect penalty save.
Professor Tom Wireless, director of Improved Sports Sciences at Loughborough University said that the perfect penalty kick can be easily countered and nullified by goalkeepers. "The goalkeeper should first observe closely the feet of the player and detect the angle at which he is approaching the ball while taking the penalty kick. If he approaches the ball at an angle of 20 to 30 degree, the goalkeeper should assume that the player is trying the perfect penalty kick."
"Since the perfect penalty kick is hundred percent likely to be hit in either of the two top corners and exactly half a meter inside the crossbar, the goalkeeper should leap exactly at 75 degree angle either side to ensure perfect interception of the ball. In order to ensure that he will jump towards the correct side, the goal keeper should observe intensely the eyes of the player. If the player's eyeballs are focused more on the right side than he is more likely to hit the ball towards his right corner and vice versa."
"Of course, the player taking the penalty kick would try to confuse the goalkeeper by alternately looking towards both sides of the goalpost. But after analyzing the eyes of hundreds of players taking penalty kick at the moment they were taking the kicks, from high-defination cameras installed at the back of goal nets, we found that most players tend to look 3 to 5 seconds longer towards the corner they intend to hit."
"So, the goalkeeper should try and count the number of seconds the player is looking towards each corner of the goalpost and leap accordingly." said Tom Wireless.
Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University reacted to this new research by scientists at Sports Technology Research Group by saying that they will soon come up with the perfect formula though which players can camouflage their eye and the foot moment while taking the penalty kick.
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