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The Interplay of Goalkeepers and Penalty Takers Affects Their Chances of Success
Research in penalty kicking has primarily focused on spatial decision making, while temporal decision making has largely been neglected, even though it is as critical for success. Temporal decision making concerns goalkeepers choosing when to initiate their jump to the ball during the penalty taker&...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985061/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33767653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645312 |
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author | Noël, Benjamin van der Kamp, John Klatt, Stefanie |
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description | Research in penalty kicking has primarily focused on spatial decision making, while temporal decision making has largely been neglected, even though it is as critical for success. Temporal decision making concerns goalkeepers choosing when to initiate their jump to the ball during the penalty taker's run-up (i.e., jump early or wait long), and penalty takers deciding where to kick the ball, either prior to the run-up or after the goalkeeper has committed to one side. We analyzed penalty takers' and goalkeepers' behavior during penalty shoot-outs at FIFA World Cups and UEFA European Championships to scrutinize if temporal aspects of decision making have an impact on penalty kick success. Results indicate that the likelihood of a penalty kick being scored depends on the combination of penalty takers' and goalkeepers' temporal decision-making strategies. Hence, moving early more often seems fruitful for goalkeepers, while penalty takers should consider varying penalty kick strategy between attempts. |
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spelling | pubmed-79850612021-03-24 The Interplay of Goalkeepers and Penalty Takers Affects Their Chances of Success Noël, Benjamin van der Kamp, John Klatt, Stefanie Front Psychol Psychology Research in penalty kicking has primarily focused on spatial decision making, while temporal decision making has largely been neglected, even though it is as critical for success. Temporal decision making concerns goalkeepers choosing when to initiate their jump to the ball during the penalty taker's run-up (i.e., jump early or wait long), and penalty takers deciding where to kick the ball, either prior to the run-up or after the goalkeeper has committed to one side. We analyzed penalty takers' and goalkeepers' behavior during penalty shoot-outs at FIFA World Cups and UEFA European Championships to scrutinize if temporal aspects of decision making have an impact on penalty kick success. Results indicate that the likelihood of a penalty kick being scored depends on the combination of penalty takers' and goalkeepers' temporal decision-making strategies. Hence, moving early more often seems fruitful for goalkeepers, while penalty takers should consider varying penalty kick strategy between attempts. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7985061/ /pubmed/33767653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645312 Text en Copyright © 2021 Noël, van der Kamp and Klatt. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Noël, Benjamin van der Kamp, John Klatt, Stefanie The Interplay of Goalkeepers and Penalty Takers Affects Their Chances of Success |
title | The Interplay of Goalkeepers and Penalty Takers Affects Their Chances of Success |
title_full | The Interplay of Goalkeepers and Penalty Takers Affects Their Chances of Success |
title_fullStr | The Interplay of Goalkeepers and Penalty Takers Affects Their Chances of Success |
title_full_unstemmed | The Interplay of Goalkeepers and Penalty Takers Affects Their Chances of Success |
title_short | The Interplay of Goalkeepers and Penalty Takers Affects Their Chances of Success |
title_sort | interplay of goalkeepers and penalty takers affects their chances of success |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985061/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33767653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645312 |
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