Fewer left footed takers means keepers have less practice in training

@jaspreetsinghsuman

4 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly

@oliverhughes610

4 ай бұрын

That is covered in the video, yes.

@HouseTracksNL

4 ай бұрын

Tldr:

@uniquefreak13

4 ай бұрын

Did you remember that from the video 😂😂😂

@purpleyranger

4 ай бұрын

@@uniquefreak13pretty sure the lad just wanted to save us from wasting 10mins of our lives. I for one am grateful.

I’m surprised they don’t mention that most goalkeepers are right handed - it’s harder to dive down to the left with your weaker hand, and since left footers can find that corner more effectively, there’s an advantage there. Also, and especially with Kane leaving, the two top penalty takers are lefties - Haaland and Salah, who play for the two best teams. Saka is also Arsenals primary pen taker. So it’s a mixture of some baked-in advantage (the rarity of left feet vs the populous of right hands), and the circumstantial prevalence of left feet in the leagues current crop of designated pen takers at the top clubs (whom you’d expect to be more attacking and win more penalties)

@user-zu9by8fj1d

4 ай бұрын

I've never played football even at an amateur club, however, while diving in the slips (or on the field) in cricket, I (a right handed person), found diving and catching to my left easier. Just a personal anecdote.

@saucerar7615

4 ай бұрын

​@@user-zu9by8fj1dinteresting, but its harder to dive on the left and try to save shots which usually goes in the bottom left corner with your weaker arm. at least thats my anecdote as a goalkeeper

@andymerrett

4 ай бұрын

two OF the best teams. Bloody Klopp fanboy.

@harold6954

4 ай бұрын

Bruno

@AxeMinion

4 ай бұрын

@@andymerrett you don’t think Man City and Liverpool are the top two teams? Fair enough, I suspect most people do though (yes me included, and who said I was a Liverpool fan??). Maybe you are an Arsenal fan - I mentioned Saka for that reason, they are right up there. I think there’s a considerable gap after Arsenal though. Just my opinions.

I still remember Mourinho's comment on why he brought Matic to Chelsea which still puzzles me: "Having a left footed midfielder with his size is a great advantage for any team" Since then, he took Matic with him to United and Roma

@madeupstory9510

3 ай бұрын

The reason he wanted a left footed midfielder is the same reason Pep and ETH want left footed CBs. In order to build from the back, players will have to be able to take the ball on their comfortable foot. I can't really describe it but it's all about build up.

The same is true for tennis players. It is far more difficult for professional tennis players to play against left handed players because they play against them so infrequently. They often train and play against right handed players.

@0megalul309

3 ай бұрын

Badminton too. Lin Dan is the only back to back Olympic winner and he's lefty

@ShakirShariff

Ай бұрын

True. Even as a left-hander, I find playing with another lefty difficult too!

Salah is like 3 of those 4 misses this season 😭. Ironically enough, he's a lefty too

I know that the football lords want more goals, but not allowing goalkeepers to move while the penalty takers can jump, reduce/increase running speed, almost stop etc is just stupid. But they don't want to do anything about that, they just want more goals.

@wingedhussar1453

4 ай бұрын

Its not stupid.if goalie xan get in front and jump out of goal he can stop most all of them if he sees it going there

@CoconutJewce

4 ай бұрын

@@wingedhussar1453 It's not about coming off the line; it's about keepers not being able to intimidate the pen takers anymore.

@ChorizoFungis

4 ай бұрын

Stop crying about it and just watch the game

@wingedhussar1453

4 ай бұрын

@@CoconutJewce well it helps with that to.after world cup and Argentina u cam see why it was ridiculous. But stil the refs don't even keep track of it half the time right

@MrWhitmen1981

4 ай бұрын

Should be able to do what you want behind the line. Move any direction.

It’s the same thing for swordsmen. They are used to fighting right handed fighters so that gives left ganders a natural advantage.

Similarly in baseball, left handed pitchers are put at a premium because many players learn to bat lefty even if they are right handed, meaning that there is a higher percentage of lefty batters to righty batters than lefty pitchers to righty pitchers. Since there is this discrepancy, and with pitchers having an advantage against like-handed batters, left handed pitchers are highly sought after.

@user-dr3qh6pd6n

4 ай бұрын

Not true actually there’s far more right handed hitters compared to left handed and switch combined. It’s down to curveball/ slider break. It’s harder to hit a breaking pitch breaking in on you than away from you so left handed pitches are at an advantage when facing right handed hitters

@SKa-tt9nm

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, no.

@gangstalker5461

2 ай бұрын

@@user-dr3qh6pd6n hitters do better against pitchers of the opposite hand. Because the pitchers release point is further away, you have more time. And if youre early on a ball breaking in, you can still drive it. But if youre early on a ball breaking away youre probably gonna roll over. There are exceptions of course like mariano rivera a righty who was lethal against lefties with his cutter

The change in rules brought by fifa on penalty taking have drastically influenced the conversion rate. Mind games are gone, goalkeepers cant even put pressure on a scoring player or trying to confuse or decieve him, and most of all they cant even celebrate anymore or 'boohoo the attackers will feel bad'; Emi Martinez's prime shithousery Is a great example of how gks can influence shootouts, and indirect cause of this new rule, but this honestly just feels like a greedy move to have as many goals as possible to guarantee more 'show'

@danielprice6762

4 ай бұрын

Good! It's supposed to be punishment for committing a foul after all

@anirbankar4941

4 ай бұрын

🙌

@kkpw12

4 ай бұрын

Can’t be more Accurate!

@frostyamii

4 ай бұрын

Totally agree mate , W pfp too

@akashyadav8513

4 ай бұрын

Exactly

Makes sense. You also see it in fighting. Most fighters are orthodox (left side forward) and facing a Southpaw opponent (right side forward) causes problems as everything they've learned in training is now reversed, not just their own offense, but anticipating the opponent and reacting properly, as described for keepers on this video. Many fighters learn to fight in both stances to be trickier opponents. EA sports UFC 3, 4 and 5 really do a good job of mimicking this: If your front leg is damaged, you'll switch stance so it's now at the rear and harder to hit, but now all of your techniques are reversed which is so awkward, that you're even tempted to switch back because it's what you're familiar with, even with the danger of continual damage to your compromised leg might cost you the fight.

This is true for most sports, being left footed means the opposition has less practice against you, while you have more practice against them , one of the major advantages for example that messi has over cr7 is the fact that he is left footed, being able to torment defenders more effectivity, in fact , the best dribblers we know are left footed- messi maradona overall and players like bernardo silva, mo salah currently

@eX1st4132

4 ай бұрын

tryna sneak bernardo silva in there

@abhikalpshekhar

4 ай бұрын

@@eX1st4132 i hate man city to their core but in the prem it is hard to think of better dribblers , especially in tight spaces

@brother44444

4 ай бұрын

palah cant dribble to save his life 😂😂😂

@brother44444

4 ай бұрын

@@eX1st4132bro tried to sneak salah 😂

If they looked at more than just the premier league, the video could be taken seriously. Now the sample size is just too small

Problem with this statistic is that its skewed by which team gets penalties and just a handful of their players. Salah, Haaland, Ødegaard, Saka, Palmer. All top pen takers for their team with a left foot. That also skewes the statistic. We are just in a period where some of the best players are left footed..

@glimpsepandey3174

4 ай бұрын

Yeah Salah, Haaland, Palmer, Saka being left-footed impacts the statistical narrative a lot. Chelsea have been awarded the most penalties in the league this season, and among the two Palmer didn't take, one was taken by Madueke, another left-footer. Three of Arsenal's top four penalty-taker options, Saka, Odegaard and Havertz are all left-footers. Or maybe coaches are actively preferring left-footed takers for the same reason. Palmer and Madueke did not have any record with penalties prior. Same for Saka before the Euro final. Havertz also became Chelsea's designated penalty taker second to Jorginho without having a lot of career penalties prior.

Won tickets to a local game in the fancy box when I won a penalty shootout at my local youth club some years back, I thought I was good but it might just be that i'm left footed! Would be interesting to see more videos on left footed biases in football

Gary Speed was one of the penalty GOATs. Guess he was ahead of his time.

Also, after Martinez's antics at the Copa America & the WC, sh*thousery from the GK has also been minimized during penalties.

As a left-footed person, I'm just waiting for my chance now.

@nix8260

4 ай бұрын

I'm left-footed as well..except that my chance will never come 😂

Fantastic work 👏🏻

This was a master class in Education 👏🏾

It would be interesting to analyse the handedness/footedness of the keepers... intuitively it's easier for a right-handed/footed keeper to dive to his/her low-right compared to their low-left and vice versa (the movement is just easier to execute by first-hand experience...pun kinda intended). Therefore, I suspect that right-handed keepers have a slight advantage against right-footed pen-takers (since, usually for a right-footed player, it is easier to shoot with more power to the keeper's right) Does it make sense?!🤔

I miss Joe Devine. Still good content though

@edemehtawardhana5962

4 ай бұрын

Is he left Tifo? What happened?

@MrBLAAHHHHHHHHHHH

4 ай бұрын

@@edemehtawardhana5962He got promoted within The Athletic if I remember correctly.

@andymerrett

4 ай бұрын

@@edemehtawardhana5962 "Joe Devine gets tired acting as a clown every week." Shrug.

2:55 Wait, is the voice over right or the graphic?

3:09 It's the same phenomenon in tennis with left-handed players vs. right-handed players. It's a lot more pronounced there than in football penalties since penalties are such a small part of football.

“Why left footed penalties are best?” Fewer left footed players is the direct reason. Which side is the weak side for a GK? Based on a direct shot without a feint. 1.A goalkeeper's strong and weak side depends more on legs than hands; 2.Goalkeeper to dive further and faster, he should push the ground with his near foot; 3.The dominant foot of most goalkeepers is the right foot, which is consistent with the overall trend of players; 4.For a right-footed goalkeeper, his most feared position is his bottom left corner.

invasion sports is a funny term and kinda right. I'm a left footer but a right hander and apparently, that is close to the ultimate combo one can have in karate and other sports were both sets of limbs are allowed, the best is apparently left handed right footer. but both are fairly rare.

Depends on the keepers dominant leg. When diving in the dominant side its a bit easier and quicker than the weak foot side

Great video but please use more legible fonts in future

great video tifo team!

Same as being a lefty in tennis, or a southpaw on boxing... Not many train against it.

Nice video ❤

Are keepers more likely to be right footed so possibly be slightly better/more likely to dive to their right and players more often go across their body so a right footer to the keepers right and left footers to the keepers left so the left footer would send the keeper the wrong way more?

it’s like left arm bowlers in cricket are so important because batsmen aren’t used to facing them as much

@barrycarter7274

4 ай бұрын

Same with batsmen. Bowlers might not bowl against them as often depending on the country/team they're in. South Africa doesn't have that many left handers compared to the rest of the world I've noticed. Wouldn't know the exact stats

It's interesting how around 20% of professional footballers are naturally left-footed, whereas in equipment-based sports like golf, tennis, cricket etc there are far fewer. I heard that in golf only around 3% of the professional tour is left-handed.

My dominent foot is my right but because of a toe injury I started shooting with my left but still dribbled with right.After some time I realised that my dribbling with left has also increased even tho I never practiced it which makes my left and right foot almost the same and it gives me a great advantage in games❤

Does this also work in Football Manager?

Do more goals tend to be scored in the first half of matches or the second half? Instinctively I'd be inclined to think that it's probably the first half, because the players are starting off fresh, whereas by the second half they've obviously gone through the exertion of the first half and so won't be quite as sharp, though there probably isn't that big a difference - certainly not to the extent that I've ever noticed!

Being left footed & the fact there aren't too many of us on average I'd have to agree

Tbf top footballers are good enough that they all should be able to score a penalty with both feet, so should really be able to change it up and trick keepers

Please do a video on Valverde

Has nothing to do with new football but just the fact that the best 2 attacks in the prem are both left footed and take pens for their teams who get penalties awarded often.

This is a normal 'phenomenon' in every sport. Left-handed bowlers in cricket or baseball are better because batters usually practise against the more widely common right-handers. This obviously applies for football, and not to mention that Haaland is left footed, that also boosts the numbers.

0:45 - this wasn't a law change, this was always in the rules and has been since 1905. It just wasn't enforced as it should've been. The only law change pertaining to goalkeepers from penalties occurred in 1997 when they were allowed to move laterally along the goal line as opposed to standing still.

3:12 "Negative frequency-dependent hypothesis" Phew!

Leighton Baines, the OG left-footed Merseyside PK taker

No joke, it's a blessing to be left footed 👌

I always tremble when the team i am supporting has a left-footed penalty taker.

Le Tisser is the best penalty taker of the last 30 years.

Disagree. As a keeper I am more confident of knowing where a lefty is going rather than a righty. Easier to read. But these stats are top league i guess

Some of this is needlessly complicated. Left footers scoring multiple penalties this season: Haaland, Salah, Odegaard, Saka, Cole Palmer. Current left footers are just ballers. Goalies spend time every week researching their opponents and practicing for these things. It's just hard against decent takers, who by the way also play for the teams getting by far the most penalties...

such small samples sizes

Thank god I changed my prefer foot from right to left years ago😅

my brother tired fencing when he was in middle school and was told that he has a huge advantage because he's left-handed

TLDR: Its like playing a fighting game on the player 2 side. Nobody practices on that side so nobody is used to it

I've been watching football for long and left footers are predictable because they have to shift their body slightly when taking pens and they cannot stand straight while a right footer can stand either at an angle or straight

So thats why Thiery Henry so deadly in EPL

No music?

⚠️ Wait ! ⚠️ What about left handed goalkeepers❓

Left footed penalty takers in the PL this season (off the top of my head) - Salah, Saka, Palmer, Mbeumo, Haaland

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The penalty king Matt le Tissier will say different

As with so many footy stats, the data pool is too small to make anything but a guess.

Left footed players tend to be more one footed so it may be that they are more skilled with their better foot.

As a keeper I tend to read left footers better idk. Definitely saved more left footed penalties than right 🤷🏻‍♀️

mic needs a little more bass

Because the keeper has to be sat down facing the other way with their hands in their pocket and if they breathe in the wrong direction its retaken

I recall a stat that left footers are disadvantaged when taking penalties

@enigmatiks

2 ай бұрын

If you find it, please link it. I’d be interested in reading it

cole palmer, salah, haaland, odegard and saka are all left footed pen takers, chelsea and arsenal have had the most pens this season followed by city and liverpool so the discrepency makes sense

Just make pens 1 on 1 with the keeper, from the half circle outside the area

I feel like grammatically it should be 'why left footed penalties are better' - unless you can also hit them with your third leg.

James Milner strongly disagrees

Different voice ?

my friend has so much trouble and stress when trying to save my penalties. And yes, I am left footed

Well explain to me why Messi misses more PKs then cr7 🙃

No way I always think to myself that left footed players penalties are easy to guess 😂

Cole Palmer has entered the chat:

KZread recommend me this video 1 day after giroud and theo miss a penalty in the same game. Ty I guess

And yet we see Haaland, Messi and Salah miss quite a few penalties

I am right handed but somehow as a kid started playing football left footed lol.

To be accurate, it wasn’t a law change it was an enforcement change. The law already existed, it was just inconsistently enforced.

Because the keeper isn't even allowed to breathe whilst playing statue on the line allowing the ball to cross the line.

Anyone else think penalties are too easy? A 0.78xg chance for a soft hand ball is too much

@jamesduffy7549

4 ай бұрын

Way too easy. It's why Diogo Jota dived in front of an open goal, a pen is even more of a garauntee these days

I guess I’m lucky I’m left-footed..

Miss Joe’s voice

what about ronaldo ??

Purely down to Salah and Cole Palmer

Everything looks better with a left peg 🤷🏻

Cole palmer

who are the premier leagues left footed penalty takers?

@maxhanney4277

4 ай бұрын

Salah Saka Odegaard Haaland etc

Erling Haaland Mo Salah Cole Palmer.

How are penalties fair for goalkeepers?

nah no way, in shootouts the left footers always miss.

Tell that to Harry Kane

This is even true on FIFA

nice video as per usual, but isn't the reason why left footed pens are "better" common sense?

Imagine if a keeper fumbled a shot then chirped up somet about "I used me weak hand" And somet else about their right hand being the stronger. YOU SEE HOW STUPID I SOUND. 🤫🤔🙄🧐

I can’t believe salah is the example in the picture. He’s one of the most inconsistent players with penalties for someone who has his skill

@joejo4549

4 ай бұрын

To be fair it's only in the recent season or so he was elite for years

Where is Joe Devine ?

Makes you realise that Patrick Bamford is one of a kind.

Being left footed means that you are awesome, therefore, better at pens.

This is a w I am left footed