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Javier:
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click, literally. on July 18, 2011, 09:50:52 AM ---lol @ the Soccer defense. LOL @ comparing them to NBA free throws. They've never determined the outcome of a game after the 4th quarter ever & those aren't luck at all considering some players shoot 90+% & some less.
Let's not act like all you have to do is kick it right & hope the goalie goes left. It's pure luck. The goalie before the shot guesses where the kicker (who knows where he's kicking it) & makes a blind dive hoping they guessed right.
& like someone said above, alright true 120+ minutes of Soccer "ain't no joke". That's why they shouldn't end it on some bullshit game of chance.
I mean they might as well made the game eleven minutes long & just straight up went to penalty kicks.
Don't blindly defend your sport, looks bad. I'm pretty sure if I had ten kicks against the greatest goalie in the World, I'd score 3-4 goals & most of my misses would just be me completely missing because I suck.
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Different goalkeepers have varying styles when defending a penalty kick. Some react to the shot, others try to analyze body language. Others memorize each kicker's history of penalty shots. Luck is involved, in the same fashion that luck is involved in all sports where centimeters is the difference between winning and losing. The percentages of it isn't the same as a coin toss. And speaking of a coin toss, in the NFL playoffs when they go to Overtime possession is decided on an actual coin toss.
K.Dub:
--- Quote from: Javier on July 18, 2011, 11:10:48 AM --- And speaking of a coin toss, in the NFL playoffs when they go to Overtime possession is decided on an actual coin toss.
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lmao
Lunatic:
Some of these bitches sexy nowadays lol. France & Sweden had bomb teams :P
DJ SUGAFREE QUIK:
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click, literally. on July 10, 2011, 03:34:04 PM ---Isn't there twice as many flops?
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Maybe they learned from David 'the hayemaker' I mean 'the flopmaker' Haye from his last boxing match vs. Klitschko :D
And congrats to Japan. After what happened to that country this year they deserved it. Another reason I wanted them to win I cause I like asian women. I don't watch soccer, I did glance to espnnews when the penalty kicks happened.
Chamillitary Click:
C'mon, son. They showed the slow motion replay of those penalty kicks four times after each one. The goalie is in a straight up all out dive before contact with the ball is even made. How is that not pure luck? You can study all you want. Bottom line, you have NO idea.
& how does the NFL coin flip determine the game? It just says who gets the ball. Plus they changed the rules of that, where you need to score a touchdown. If you kick a FG, the other team gets the ball back to match or score a winning touchdown. They just installed it last postseason, so I'm not sure of the exact rule. But regardless, it's not in the same league. All the coin flip does is give a team the ball. Then from there they play the same game they played for four quarters. They don't call out both kickers & say, make as many kicks as you can in a row.
"If both are elite players and know their crafts, the one who is kicking the ball is going to win just about every time," Gustavson says. "Basically, if you kick the ball into either corner, you are going to score. The keeper would just not be able to react fast enough to a ball kicked anywhere over 55 miles per hourif it is kicked within a yard of either goalpost."
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2003-02-18-ten-hardest-penalty-kick_x.htm
If you stop something that is going to win "just about EVERY time", I'd say that's luck. & this is what determines the "Super Bowl/World Series/Finals" of Soccer, which all you Soccer fans cry about is the "greatest, most popular game ever". There is less luck in Black Jack.
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