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Secret to scoring penalties: ignore the goalkeeper – Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/7809248/Secret-to-scoring-penalties-ignore-the-goalkeeper.html

Secret to scoring penalties: ignore the goalkeeper.

Psychologists have found that under extreme anxiety players become fixated on the keeper and tend to kick the ball directly at him.

This is exacerbated by the current trend for keepers to jump around on their goal line to distract the player.