Goalkeeper's strategies for penalty kicks

Football is a worldwide cultural phenomenon due to the massification process that includes not only the practicing public, but also the people who only consume the sport. Match analysis has been a tool widely used to evaluate the performance of teams and thus explore the positive and negative points...

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Authors: Souza, César Filippini de; Amaral, Rodrigo Andrade; Góes, Giovanni Henrique Teixeira dos Santos; Morato, Márcio Pereira
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2023
Country:Brasil
Institution:IBPEFEX
Repository:Revista Brasileira de Futsal e Futebol
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.rbff.com.br:article/1288
Online Access:https://www.rbff.com.br/index.php/rbff/article/view/1288
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Football
Goalkepper
Penalty kicks
Fútbol
Porteros
Penalfallado
Calcio
Portieri
Calcio di rigore
Futebol
Goleiros
Pênaltis
Guarda-redes
Penáltis
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Summary:Football is a worldwide cultural phenomenon due to the massification process that includes not only the practicing public, but also the people who only consume the sport. Match analysis has been a tool widely used to evaluate the performance of teams and thus explore the positive and negative points, in addition to the factors that can influence the result of the match. The penalty is an especially important moment for football, as it has high goal rates and a high occurrence between games. Thus, this study analyzed penalty kicks from the UEFA Champions League (2016-2020) to analyze the strategies used by the goalkeeper in penalty kicks and their influence on the success of penalties. The analyzed data show that most goalkeepers use only one strategy in penalty kicks, with anticipation being the most used. Despite this, lateralization, which would be the positioning of the goalkeeper outside the center of the goal, was the strategy that proved to be more effective for the goalkeeper. In addition, goalkeepers have better rates when they use more strategies