Who agrees that penalty shoot-outs are an unsatisfactory way to decide a match if the score is still tied after extra time?
With any penalty, the advantage is 90% with the kicker and the goalkeeper can only guess and hope he dives the right way. Its all down to sheer luck,and who can keep their nerve under way too much pressure. There is no real football skill involved in it...almost anyone can blast a ball at the goal, and its just chance whether it goes in or is saved.
For important competitions, it is a big shame that the winner is decided with this lottery of a system. Italy are World Champions today, but it is certainly not the best way to win it in this manner.
It would be fairer, and much more exciting, to use the "golden goal" method,where the first goal scored in extra time wins the match.
2006-07-10
01:21:45
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