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Left footed players taking penalties

Scorer said:
I’m right footed but took penna’s left footed. Top left corner 9/10.
Sadly shit at other critical football related skills.
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Maybe you were actually left footed. Realizing it might have helped you out with the other critical football related skills. Except for heading, realizing it wouldnt have helped a great deal with heading.
 

Seems like they have more a tendency to hit the same corner but thats just based off Michel gray and being more aware of left footed players hitting that same corner
poolie said:
Someone needs to change that 0% if thats even possible :lol::lol:

Messi
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Messi only 78% success rate surprisingly
 
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joop said:
Maybe you were actually left footed. Realizing it might have helped you out with the other critical football related skills. Except for heading, realizing it wouldnt have helped a great deal with heading.
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Funnily enough you might be right, sort of. I’m dyspraxic and do some things left handed despite right being my dominant hand. My son is right handed but very definitely left footed.
I was great at heading. No feet involved to consider which to use!
 
I may be be wrong but Andreas Brehme scored his penalty in the World Cup Final with his right foot despite being left footed. Absolute bells of steel to do that in a World Cup Final.
 
If the OP's suggestion is correct, it may be because left-footed players taking penalties will naturally aim for the left side of the goal as they face it (the goalkeeper's right), rather than effectively playing it across the keeper into the other corner. But most keepers are likely to be right-footed and right-handed, so diving to the right will be their strength, meaning they have a better chance of saving a left-footed player's penalty.

Being left-footed myself (and it was a wand!), whenever I played in goal I felt more confident and more power pushing off my left and diving that way (despite being right-handed, which was a bit awkward!).
 
SAFC11 said:
Seems like they have more a tendency to hit the same corner but thats just based off Michel gray and being more aware of left footed players hitting that same corner

Messi only 78% success rate surprisingly
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85% success rate in shootouts, higher than his rate in general play.
 
johnlights said:
Seem to have a massive calamity rate...
Is there any data for it?
Or is it, as I suspect, just in my misfiring mind?
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If your talking about physical dynamics its more natural for a left footer to shoot to the right side of the goal (facing him)and a right footed goalie is more comfortable diving to the left(which is the right from the takers perspective)thus best conditions for a save? Obviously choice comes into it but thats the reality of it! Personally i would generalise that wingers and defenders statistically the worst at taking pens with strikers and midfielders being the best.....obvious exceptions to the above but as a general rule is decent enough.
 
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