This is a fairer and more accurate way of determining who goes through and stops players avoiding taking one in pressure situations.
Teams often decide who will take a penalty after the conclusion of regular time with some opting out due to fatigue, nerves, and a host of other reasons.
The team is 11 vs 11 and all players should take a kick.
In the event a team has a player(s) sent off resulting in 11 vs 10, it will be reduced to a 10 vs 10 with the team of 11 deciding which player does not need to take one.
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I don’t watch much soccer but I think that is a good idea.
Why should the game be decided by how well the people who’s job it is to defend the goal can score a goal?
A really poorly thought out opinion. It’s the final of the World Cup and I suck at taking penalties…all I need to do is commit a horrific foul and get sent off!! Beautiful.
That would make them even more boring to watch.
becayse if the last sentence you wrote this becomes a really really easy thing to exploit, and here would be so many rules that would be implemented for those loopholes that it would eventually just rewind back to some form of 5v5
Upvoted because this is just not a good idea
Agreed, and all 11 shots made at once. Still only one goalie.
That is a bad idea.
Why would you need this? If its tied after 5 each, it continues on indefinitely, so theres always potential for 22 pens
I understand the idea but what would it change? While all players having to participate sounds nice and help balance the stress and the responsibility, it would also give goalkeepers maybe too much. With 5v5, you have more chances to get away with a goalkeeper that is bad at penalty kicks, but 11v11 I guess it’s completely over
This doesn’t really change anything in the grand scheme. If anything it adds worse penalty takers into the process which would create more variability on goals vs misses. But that already occurs during the sudden death process that occurs after the initial 5 takes and new players are introduced.
The only real impact i can see is the change in strategy on where you may place your best kick takers. But overall just adds more time to the game with likely little change or impact to the ending results.
Bravo son this is unpopular as fuck
I have a take on penalty shootouts. Hear me out…. Get rid of sudden deaths. If it’s tied after 5 attempts each, have another set of 5 each. Continue with sets of 5 until result achieved
Goalie will be knackered.
upvote because bad idea
Nobody wants to watch 11 penalties. Its exciting because you miss one or two and you’re pretty much done. Selecting who will take them is also part of the romance, either they’re going to be a hero or be remembered as the guy who missed that penalty.
Numerically speaking, once a team has scored 6 kicks, the shootout is effectively over. So I mean, I guess you could say all 11 have to kick, but in order to get the game over quickly, the teams will just line up their top 6 kickers first anyway in hopes of winning a majority quickly. And now you’re back to the original rule of best of 5.
Isn’t the premise flawed? Penalty shootouts are absolutely known to use all 11 players from a side. In the 2014 league cup, which ended 14-13 on penalties, every player, including goalkeepers, took a penalty – with some players taking a second penalty!
While we are at it, why only the 1 goalie? All 11 players should shoot against the other 11. 121 shots a side. That way we know who the most well rounded team really is.
I’m not sure why this is any less arbitrary than where you drew the line