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Penalty shoot-outs might not be the best way to resolve a 120-minute stalemate but short of replays, there is no genuine alternative.

Penalties create heroes and villains, sort the wheat from the chaff: Agony, ecstasy and unbearable tension.

Going into 2014 there had been 22 shoot-outs in the World Cup since the first one in 1982 - when West Germany beat France in an epic semi-final - and there were only two at the 2010 finals in South Africa.

Few will forget Ghana losing to Uruguay after missing a penalty with the last kick of the match to win it following Luis Suarez’s deliberate handball to prevent a goal.

However, few will remember Paraguay beating Japan 5-4 in the tournament’s other shoot-out so they are not all back-page news.

Germany have never lost a World Cup match on penalties - four wins - with Argentina’s only defeat in four being against the Germans.

Both of them have beaten England who have failed on all three occasions they have faced 12-yard trials. At least England fans won’t have

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3 HOW TO BE A PENALTY KING

It’s always wise to be prepared in case your team has to take part in a shoot-out. Whether it’s goalkeepers or penalty takers, practice is most definitely the key.

4 SAVE IN SHOOT OUTS

A goalkeeper has nothing to lose in a penalty shoot-out but by working on movement and reaction saves he stands more chance of winning.

5 SCORE IN SHOOT-OUTS

Use this knockout game to improve the ability of your young players to score from the spot and cope with the pressure of a penalty shoot-out.

6 GET YOUR KEEPER IN SAVING MODE

Brentford keeper Richard Lee - a man who knows about winning shoot-outs - offers six tips to get your stopper saving more penalties.

7 DEBATE: ARE PENALTY SHOOT-OUTS FAIR?

At the top level, the drama of a penalty shoot-out can provide a gripping and exciting finale to a match but is it right that youth soccer matches should be concluded this way?

8 THE PERFECT PENALTY - A FRANK PERSPECTIVE

Should England’s World Cup end in penalties, Frank Lampard will be asked to step up. Here he explains how your players can keep their cool from the spot.

In this issue... 12-YARD TIPS

Give your keeper an edge

1. Young players often look at the corner they are going to hit the ball. 2. A wide approach often indicates the shooter is going to the opposite corner. 3. The ball often goes where the plant foot and hips point.4. A drop of the head = cross-body shot. Head up = opposite corner.

that misery to go through this time round - small mercies...

Italy have also lost three but won when it mattered in the 2006 final against France.

Realistically, you may never have to coach a team in the World Cup or any international tournament but there is a good chance you will have at least one shoot-out to contend with so you need to give your players a head start.

This guide contains tips and advice from top professionals like Frank

Lampard about scoring penalties as well as how best to prepare your keeper to become the hero by reading the kicker’s body language and making saves.

These great sessions will stand players in good stead for “regulation” spot-kicks as well and give everyone a chance to have a big impact on the team in fun, yet realistic, training exercises. I hope you enjoy using the games as much as we enjoyed putting them together.

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Agony: Ghana went out of the 2010 World Cup on penalties to Uruguay after Asamoah Gyan missed a last-minute spot-kick to claim a place in the semi-finals

how to win penalty shoot-outs

FOR THE RECORD...WORLD CUP MOST WINS ON PENALTIESGermany 4 (from 4)Argentina 3 (4)Brazil 2 (3)France 2 (4)MOST DEFEATS ON PENALTIES England 3 (from 3)Italy 3 (4)Mexico 2 (2)Romania 2 (2)France 2 (4)

Penalty shoot-outs are now such a regular feature of football at all levels, it’s highly likely that this

summer your team will find themselves in a match at a tournament that will be settled by spot kicks.

Frank Lampard is among the Premier League’s finest penalty takers and he knows the importance of working on this skill in training, having won and lost shoot-outs with both Chelsea and England. “I think the regular penalty takers, or pretty regular ones, will practise regularly to keep them at a level,” he says.

Lampard is an expert, having scored in the shoot-outs at two Champions League finals. But even an old hand like Frank can miss, most notably when he dragged one wide in the 2010 FA Cup Final against Portsmouth and when he saw his attempt saved in England’s 2006 World Cup shoot-out against Portugal.

Other notable penalty takers in the Premier League include West Ham’s Mark Noble and Southampton’s Rickie Lambert, but it’s not for everyone – Wayne Rooney, such a good striker of a ball, actually gave up taking them. Each player has a different technique too: Noble is a blaster, Lambert is a placer, while Lampard has a habit of sending the keeper the wrong way.

The key is technique first – a solid striking of the ball and finding the corners of the goal. Try getting players to aim for the inside of the side netting – 35 per cent of successful penalties are directed into the bottom corners. Firing high increases the likelihood of putting it over, while waiting for the keeper to move takes self-assurance. It’s important to make sure your players practise, that they keep it simple and they don’t change their minds.

For goalkeepers, there is no fear of penalties. In fact, they love them because it’s a great opportunity to be a hero. Notable spot kick stoppers in today’s game include Tim Howard, Gianlugi Buffon, Pepe Reina, Petr Cech and Manuel Neuer. But what’s their secret?

“When it comes to a penalty shoot-out, a lot is down to confidence, and I am a confident person – you want to do something special for your team,” says Neuer, who saved penalties from both Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaká last year to help Bayern Munich through to the Champions League final. He also admitted to studying Ronaldo’s penalty-taking style before the game.

Other than research and practice, teach your keepers to watch a kicker’s body language, observe how they

place the ball and angle their foot. A good keeper should stand up straight and follow the penalty taker’s run-up, watching carefully as right footers will favour the left side of goal because they have to open up their body, and left footers vice versa. In short, your keeper should make a decision and dive – the chances of it going down the middle are slim because it takes a lot of nerve on the part of the penalty taker.

On the following pages we have two activities to help you prepare your team for a shoot-out – one session to help the goalkeepers save and one to make penalty takers feel more confident.

“The likes of Frank Lampard will practise taking penalties every day, repeating the behaviour. The ones who generally miss are the ones who practise just the day before and then when asked will you take a penalty, they say okay, I’ll do it”– Former England keeper David James on the need to practise for a penalty shoot-out

Words by: Mike PattendenActivities by: David Clarke

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It’s always wise to be prepared in case your team has to take part in a penalty shoot-out. Whether it’s your goalkeepers or your penalty takers, practice is most definitely the key

How To Be A Penalty King

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HOW TO WIN PENALTY SHOOT-OUTS

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A goalkeeper may have nothing to lose in a penalty shoot-out but by working on his movement and his reaction saves he certainly stands more chance of winning

Save In Shoot-outsWHY USE ITTo win more penalty shoot-outs you need to get your keeper moving and working on reaction saves. This is the best way to get his brain in gear to react to the shot – it’s no good just standing him between the posts and shooting at him.

SET UPPut a red cone in the six-yard area in line with the post and a yellow cone on the other side of the goal on the six-yard line, placing a ball on the keeper’s side of each of the cones.

HOW TO PLAYWhen the server shouts “red”, the keeper must dive on the ball next to the red marker, immediately getting up to position himself ready to save the next shot. If the server shouts “penalty”, the next shot is immediately taken from the spot but hit down the centre of the goal. If the server calls “yellow”, the keeper dives on the ball next to the yellow cone, before getting up ready to save the next shot. The server should vary the order of the sequence.

TECHNIQUEThis activity gets keepers on their toes and gives them an athletic approach to both saving penalties and reacting to the shot. It is a great physical session to get keepers diving and reaching for the ball.


Set up so that the red cone and yellow cone are different distances away from the goalkeeper but in line with each post

When you call “penalty” the keeper must react to a shot hit straight at him and must immediately get ready for another call

Here the call of “yellow” means the keeper must dive further and must recover quickly over the greater distance to get back for the next call

Player movement Ball movement Run with ball Shot

If “penalty” is called the goalkeeper must

retreat to the goal line, so he has to recover quickly from diving

towards the cones

If you call a colour, the keeper must dive on the

ball next to that cone and then get straight back up waiting for the next shot



Use this knockout scoring game to improve the ability of your young players to score from the spot and cope with the pressure of a penalty shoot-out

Score In Shoot-outs

WHY USE ITIn this knockout game the penalty becomes just another aspect of scoring goals. The pressure is on the individual but there are three different shots to ensure that the pressure on young shoulders is not as great as it could be.

SET UPYou need a goal, a goalkeeper, two servers and plenty of balls for this session. You also need a number of players to make it a worthwhile competition.

HOW TO PLAYEach player has three goes to get through to the next round of the competition: a penalty, a turn and shoot technique, and a header. The first shot is the penalty – then the player must run to touch the goalpost before returning to a ball played in by a server and turning and shooting with one touch. He must then follow that shot in to place a header in the net. Start by saying players must score with one of the chances, then after round one make it two – and as players are knocked out, make it all three chances.

TECHNIQUEThere are three ways of scoring but because the player has to concentrate on what follows the penalty, the pressure is much less on the actual kick. Players should show good technique and a fearless attitude that they can carry with them into a penalty shoot-out.


Players must use good technique with the penalty to start off their three chances

After taking the penalty, the player must run to the post and touch it before turning to run back

After taking the second shot, the player must direct a simple header at the goal to try to catch the keeper out

Player movement Ball movement Run with ball Shot

The server times a pass into the penalty area

for the returning player to run on to and shoot

on the turn

The goalkeeper cannot move off his line for the

penalty and must stay in the six-yard box for the

other two chances



Get Your Keeper Saving Penalties

Brentford keeper Richard Lee is an expert penalty saver, having won more than his fair share of shoot-outs. He also runs training courses for young goalkeepers. Here he offers six tips that will help you to get your stopper saving more penalties


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01 MENTALLY PREPARE“As obvious as it sounds, you need to get your goalkeeper into the mindset that he is going to save penalties. Talk positively ahead of a match and reinforce the message that your keeper can and will save spot kicks. If he believes the odds are in the penalty taker’s favour, chances are he won’t make a save. The keeper should be thinking ‘if I go the right way, I am going to save this’.”

02 TIME THE DIVE“When practising penalties in training, try out some new things with your keeper. Get him to move a split second earlier than he usually would do when facing a penalty. Timing the dive is crucial in this situation and you can easily go too early or too late. By going ever so slightly earlier with the dive, your keeper may well find his success rate in stopping the ball is increased.”

03 GAIN CRUCIAL YARDS“Emphasise to your goalkeeper that there is an advantage to be had by angling your dive slightly forward when attempting to save a penalty. Show your keeper some clips of Liverpool and Spain goalkeeper Pepe Reina facing penalties, as he is a master at angling his dives when saving spot kicks. He will end up two or three yards off his line after the penalty has been taken and will narrow the striker’s angle.”

04 JUDGE THE TAKER“Talk through with your goalkeeper what certain opposition players might be likely to do with their penalty kicks. It’s a generalisation I know, but a centre back might be more likely to hit the ball straight down the middle as hard as he can, rather than place the ball into a corner. If a player runs up to the ball at a narrow angle, it’s unlikely they will be able to open themselves up enough to get it in a corner.”

05 UNSETTLE OPPONENTS“You should be supportive of techniques your goalkeeper might use to unsettle the penalty taker, such as movement on the line or ‘spaghetti legs’, so long as he is in a good position to dive and make a save when the kick is taken. As you would advise a penalty kicker to not change their mind when taking a penalty, tell your goalkeeper to trust his instincts and fully commit to going where he thinks the ball is going.”

06 TRUST THE KEEPER“If you are going into a penalty shootout, it’s no time for you to be giving your keeper technical instruction. Instead give him massive encouragement, tell him to enjoy the shootout and tell him this is his time to make himself a hero. Don’t underestimate the importance of your goalkeeper being fit and agile in saving penalties. Work on his physical training as much as you would do with an outfield player.”

Richard Lee saves to beat Everton in a penalty shootout



Are Penalty Shoot-outs A Fair Way To End A Game?THE BIG DEBATE: At the top level, the drama of a penalty shoot-out can provide a gripping and exciting finale to a match, but is it right that youth soccer matches should be concluded this way?

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I think there’s enough debate about the merits

of penalty shoot-outs concluding matches at the top level to suggest that we shouldn’t be thrusting this on our youth players. We have a responsibility as coaches to decide what’s best for our players – and I’m not sure an arduous penalty shoot-out is for the best.

One of the problems with shoot-outs is that they’re not inclusive. If it’s ‘best of five kicks’ then some players won’t have any bearing on the outcome – they’re having to put the responsibility solely in the hands of others. I’m not sure that’s what youth soccer is about… it should be everyone participating.

As much as kids are said to be resilient in many ways, I’ve seen failure from the spot in normal

time have a definite effect on confidence. Very often a player will ‘go missing’. At least a miss in normal time can allow a player to redeem himself later in the game. A penalty shoot-out miss doesn’t even allow that.

Team-mates can also target a player who missed, particularly if the kick has come at the end of a big cup match. Some of these lads have long memories and they can be cruel at times. It’s unfair to pile all that perceived ‘blame’ on one player.

Like it or not, the youth game is really about enjoyment before results. If both teams can play a game and then shake hands on a draw at the end rather than having a result forced through penalties, then surely everyone leaves in a positive frame of mind?

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“Failure from the spot can have a definite effect on confidence. At least in normal time a player can redeem himself later in the game. A penalty shoot-out miss doesn’t even allow that”

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“What’s the alternative? Let kids go through a full game, plus extra-time, and then tell them that neither has won? Kids want to see a meaningful end product in everything they do”

I think every feature of the adult game

should be replicated in youth soccer, otherwise what are we teaching? Kids get into soccer because of what they see in stadiums and on TV screens, and we should be giving them the opportunity to sample that in all its excitement and glory.

I think everyone finds penalty shoot-outs a thrilling part of the game, players included. As long as each outfield player knows that it’s no crime to miss, and providing both keepers know that every save they make is a bonus, this can be a fantastic way to end a match.

What’s the alternative? Let kids go through a full game, plus extra-time, and then tell them at the end that neither has won? Kids want to see

a meaningful end product in everything they do – it’s crucial for their development.

I appreciate ending with a penalty shoot-out can trouble some people because it can be a bitter way for a match to be concluded, in particular for the player who misses the vital kick. But kids are pretty resilient about setbacks such as these – and it’s not only through penalty kicks that individual errors determine matches.

Losing the ability for a team to win the game only serves to make it sterile. I know some coaches who will finish each training session with a penalty shoot-out. As a quick activity, it rehearses players in a number of key specialisms, not least dead ball ability, decision-making and confidence.

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Scoring From The Penalty Spot

Should England’s World Cup end in penalties, Frank Lampard will surely be asked to step up. Here he explains how your players can keep their cool from the spot

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KEEP COMPOSED Coaches should only put forward those

players who they feel can cope with the pressure of converting a spot-kick – they must be able to clear their minds of any distractions when walking up to take a kick. Missing a penalty, even in training, can have an adverse effect on a young player’s confidence, so it’s not something I’d want to rush a lad into. Composure and a cool head was always a must for me, and you could see the players who didn’t have that. Sometimes you just knew they were going to miss.

VARY YOUR SPOT-KICKSI know young players can struggle with

accuracy, but getting them to vary where spot-kicks go is vital, and it has always been a feature of my penalty-taking. I never want a keeper to be able to guess where I’ll put the ball, and I am usually comfortable kicking it in any part of the goal. As a kid, a practice I loved was to fire shots clockwise around the angles of the goal. I’d recommend getting your players to try that one.

FOLLOW THROUGHFollowing through on the ball is really

important when you take a penalty because it keeps a kick true and ensures that it retains its power. I push my foot through every shot and was taught to focus on the area behind the ball, and not let my foot stop moving until it was there. There’s no better feeling in the world than scoring when you are really striking through the ball.

ALWAYS BE ACCURATEAs a kid, I spent many years staying

behind after training to improve my accuracy. At times I would be teased about it, particularly because I was always with my dad [Frank Lampard Snr], and other players didn’t like the fact I did the extra stuff. But there’s still a lot of lumping it in youth soccer, and finding that accuracy is a good reaction to that. It also means building the confidence of your players, and if you can get a group to stay voluntarily, that’s really encouraging.

RESPECT THE KEEPERIt seems a strange thing to say this

but you always need to have respect for an opponent. However good you are, there is absolutely no guarantee that you’ll score from a penalty and I was always brought up with the idea that success has to be earned. My dad was always telling me not to get carried away and to keep a level head. Football emotions can sometimes run away with us, and penalty kicks are almost a concentration of that.

DON’T CHANGE YOUR MIND It’s the oldest adage when stepping up to

take a penalty, but tell players to never change their minds. From the moment I ground the ball, I know which way it’s going and whether I’m going to put it along the ground or in the air. Your run-up is conditioned to the direction you want the ball to go, so changing your mind means you’re not approaching the ball the right way, physically or mentally, and that’s often when things go wrong.

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Roy Hodgson and Gordon Strachan prepare for battleFrank Lampard has the perfect temperament to take penalties at key moments at international level



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