How England Became Good At Penalties
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Before Gareth Southgate was appointed England manager in 2016, England had the worst penalty record of any major national team in the world, having won just one of the seven penalty shootouts - 14.2% - they had been involved in at the UEFA Euros and the FIFA World Cup.
With victory against Switzerland via a shootout in the quarter finals of UEFA Euro 2024, England have now won three of their four penalty shootouts - 75% - since Southgate's appointment.
In this video, HITC Sevens takes a closer look at that radical transformation, the reasons behind it, and both the importance, psychology, and technique of penalties more broadly.
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If we lose on shootouts this tournament, I'm holding you personally responsible
they might win against Spain in a shootout, if they could survive that long😊
@@MrCaptaincupcakefulI've nowt to worry about then cos Spain won't give us the chance to go to penalties lol
I found it that every England player had a 'buddy' that walked with them to the spot and met them half way on the way back. Futhermore, for the first 2 England kicks, Pickford would also meet the player at the edge of the box before he was warned by the referee to stop interfering. In all of our other shootouts the penalty taker has been isolated to take the kick alone and walk back alone - something that was particularly clear when they missed. It's a small thing but I imagine that it is important for the players to ease that anxiety when taking the penalty.
“youll never walk alone”
While I don't like Southgate's in-game management that much, we can all agree he has done wonders for the team culture.
@@stevencooke6451 i really hope he still stays as some higher up in the team to keep that going, we just need a better tactician
@@sebastiangreen4995yeah, if he took on a director sort of role while someone else became head coach I’d be happy. I think he deserves to retire but he’s genuinely so important for the national setup and fixed what was a sinking ship
The idea of penalty buddies, someone assigned to celebrate with - or console - the penalty taker and idea of Pickford of walking into the box with the taker. These are subtle things but do so much for psychology and confidence in the players
SNOWFLAKES. No?
@@BOZ_11 maybe but it worked so I don’t care tbh. If it means they win the Euros they could do whatever they needed
@@BOZ_11 Rather a team full of winning snowflakes than one full of losing men.
@@brzt4256 Can't argue with that
@@BOZ_11”snowflakes” you will never do anything with half as much pressure on you in your life
This is exactly the sort of video the people need to see to understand the cultural shift and phenomenal job that Southgate has done. These subtleties drive success but people still attribute it to luck and don't give him enough credit that they're probably in the semi-final again because of him.
I think we've been carried by 1% individual moments of quality, in spite of 99% Southgate's system.
@@wolfmauler Aye so Rooney, Beckham, Lampard, Gerrard, Scholes, need I name more, all have nothing to do with the manager either? Look at Belgium. Great players, don't get on, failed. It's as simple as that
@@whatsahellhellthe Belgium golden generation ended when Hazard fell off.
It's definitely a major improvement from the 1990s and the early to mid 2000s when England were almost guaranteed to be knocked out if the game went to a penalty shootout.
"that England fans love but would despise if he played for any other nation" this is why your commentary is the best mate
You had to do it didn’t you Alfie. You couldn’t have just waited one week when the tournament was over before uploading this video.
If we do lose on pens vs the Netherlands, I am holding you solely responsible for the loss 🧐
He is a clown tbh.😂
We will be bloody lucky to get to penalties. Seriously think we will lose 4-1 against the Dutch
You might be ok Netherlands have a dodgy penalty record too
@@Tazza81Why?? They a have one decent win out of 5. They lost to Austria as well. Turkey got 15 shots away. 'Course, they've scored 9 goals in the tournament 🤔. I say England finally click and the floodgates open. 4-2 England 😄🍻🏴
(Yeah right 😅, but I hope)
@@Tazza81 Aye, they owe us for the battering in 1996 😉
Alfie matchday vlog for the 230 Euro cabaret in Paris when?
The video that was promised
Top drawer Alfie! 😄 Penalties: historically the England football DNA test lol ...This vid was brilliant, a trip down memory lane, including the good, the bad & the absolutely horrific 🙄, yet culminating in one of those paradoxical, yet accurate appraisals of life under Southgate, wherein the most successful tenure as England boss, since '66, is also the most maligned 🤔...Cheers Mr. Potts Harmer.
COME ON ENGLAND! ⚽🏴🍻
The penalty partner idea is kinda cool. Makes sense as usually at freekicks they have at least 2 chatting about it.
0:24 Alfie said look but didn't show Luke Shaw's image- bro fell off.
It's because he didn't say "look, sure..."
Probably traumas they had from the last time
Sounds like the fa have gone to southgate and the two of them have come up with a great plan. Doesnt help having some class penalty takers as well
Now watch England get to the final, play out a 0-0 draw and then lose on penalities with 1 shot saved and another into the stratosphere Baggio-style
Still closer to the trophy than some of our performances have deserved tbh
Ain't gonna happen 😂
Maybe Beckham & Kane style too once or twice 😏
Top 7 English penalty taker's of all time.
It's not even close mate: Harry's got 21, then Lampard with 9, Rooney with 7, Shearer with 6 and 🤔...I have no idea after that. A ton of players with 3 or so, Gazza, Lineker. Maybe Becks with 5-6.
HITC you may have just given England the kiss of death 💋💋💋
Insightful stuff 👏🏿
I was not nervous watching the penalties until Trent. It was weird
The Athletic has a couple really excellent articles about this subject. Highly recommend reading.
Alfie, you are the best CZcams Football Journalist hands down. Also, please pardon me if CZcams Football Journalist is not the preferred nomenclature.
Oblak saved a penalty to win us the league in 2021, he was quite poor at penalties early in his career which brings his stats down a lot but last five years he’s been sublime
That semi in 96 was unfortunate; buried all 5 before it went to sudden death
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 654)
I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Bro, you should made this video it by yourself!. You Will got more benefit.
Yes, yes, we're all aware of your persistent demands, but how about showing some appreciation for the video at hand⁉️😳
Do you even watch them? 🤔
1. Bert Trautmann. Not EPL but he has to be number 1 who ever played in England.
2. Jurgen Klinsmann
3. Jens Lehmann
4. Mesut Ozil
5. Markus Babbel
6. Robert Huth (maybe he should be higher given his trophy cabinet)
7. Dietmar Hamann
8. Per Mertesacker
9. Michael Ballack
10. Christian Ziege
Think I would change some of the rankings, but I can’t be arsed as it is really difficult on my iPhone.
Maybe now you can go and petition someone else for something else.
@@wolfmaulerasking the reeeal questions
@@Sparkypark Lol, I did the same thing about 18 mos ago 😆
Cold Palmer
These narratives are crazy. The sample sizes of shootouts are tiny and span decades. You get different takers, keepers, contexts, fans. Yet still nations need to talk about whether they're good or bad. Some country was always going to get a complex after losing a few important ones.
You'd think France would have the biggest complex given they've lost two world cup finals on pens. Christ imagine if that were England. But there seems to be more acceptance of how random it is. Good takers often miss. Sometimes keepers make great saves. Huge amounts come down to which way they guess. England took 5 good pens, but on another day one of those is saved. Or the opposition also score 5 and then there's added pressure for the 6th and 7th. When a team loses 6-5 it's never praising the penalties they scored. I remember man utd losing 11-10 and then people saying they're rubbish at pens. Literally scoring every one except for the keepers.
So often a team wins a shootout in a tournament then loses their next shootout. You go insane working out who is GOOD at them. Portugal were good at then v Slovenia and then not good at then a few days later v France. Last Euros Switzerland beat France on pens and then lose to Spain on pens who then lose to Italy on pens who then beat England on pens. So are Italy good at pens? Well they won, but the quality of that final shootout was pretty low.
The real trick, and sign of a quality side is to not get yourself in loads of penalty shootouts! England have terrific attackers. Yet for 6 years of it, they've gone out scoring 1 goal. It will lead to a lot of draws when you're that cautious. Other teams are doing it too. Its happening in the Copa now. At what point will people get bored of each tournament just being endless pens and people trying to retrospectively add narrative to it?
Italy's pens in the 2006 final were absolutely perfect ...ditto Germany in 90 and 96 against england....can your technique hold under the pressure... it's a mental game as much as anything else
Yep. Look at Becks slipping over because the ground was cutting up (2006?)
How do you practice for that?
If the strategy has changed and success has drastically improved, then it’s definitely worth mentioning
Pickford is going to mess around and get a Major League Baseball style pitch count implemented if he keeps pysching people out.
He's been watching and learning from the master...Emi Martinez 💜💙
We have taken 4 shootouts with Southgate and we have won 3/4
I’ve just watched Saka’s pen v Italy, then his pen v Switzerland.
They’re almost the same. The difference is the Swiss goalkeeper choosing to dive right, instead of to his left.
Had he guessed the right way, he would likely have saved it, given the lack of power.
Probably not, it was definitely much better this time, and it was less obvious which way he was going to shoot
Thanks for the jinx Alfie
No, i wasnt thinking that Alfie, i was thinking, how is this going to be a half hour video? Very interesting though!
We Swiss should have buried our chances in extra time or defended the Saka goal better, because the truth is that the penalty lineup of England just is better.
You have the main penalty takers for Chelsea, Arsenal and Brentford, Liverpools main free kick taker and one of the biggest talents in the world against the main penalty taker of Chicago Fire, a guy who took 1 pen for Burnley and 2 defenders, who only take penalties during shootouts.
And we even got lucky that Bayerns main taker was subbed off
Plus we have won 1 penalty shootout in our history, where only Mbappe missed
That’s like England fans saying we should not have let the Swiss score that goal and should have won it in normal time. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It didn’t happen.
@@_Ali. But you can’t disagree with the second half of the comment. England has better takers
That being said, Sommer in goal for penalties is a scary scary prospect. Yes our takers might be better, but I'd argue Sommer in goal for them is also a massive factor in it.
If only Shaqiri scored 😢
@@ell1cs if you’re going to say that, then with all due respect we have the overall better squad and it was inevitable? It’s penalties and comes down to pot luck/mental readiness. If you can’t score from 12 yards out you really shouldn’t be playing international football.
Poker is a game of short-term luck and long-term skill.
When Lady Luck closes the door on you, climb through the window.
Just a question, in this video you say, like Kyle Walker, that beating teams by several goals isn't modern football, albeit you meant at least once penalties would likely feature, and he meant that it isn't the reality of football for that to happen at all. Is that actually true, though? Many teams have steamrolled others at recent tournaments, and whilst they may have a penalty shootout, it will more be in the fashion which you mentioned, rather than frequent slow and low-scoring performances being the norm. England scored 6 against Iran at just the last World Cup, where Spain scored 7 against Costa Rica, France 4 against Australia, Portugal 6 against Switzerland (who England struggled against), Germany scored 5 against Scotland at this tournament, so was Walker just trying to avoid being negative?
How are they a lottery? They are about composure and technical ability which both make up a good player. Kick a resting ball exact and strong enough and the goalie will have no chance.
Could you do a video on : why is Gareth Southgate so disliked in England? I mean based on results in tournaments he has been the most successful England manager since 1966. but every English football CZcamsr (except you) seems to want him sacked immediately basically since he was appointed. I just wondered why.
Hope your having a great day.
He has proven that he is isn't that good and hasn't beaten anyone significant during his tenure.
3 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses for WC 18. played every game at home for previous Euro's, beat nobody on the way to the final.
Loses to France at last world cup. He loses every time England plays a proper team.
He was worshipped a couple of years ago. Now everyone has turned on him
It’s not Southgate really. It’s social media. Without it he would be a national icon but social media is just creator and multiplier of negativity. I’m 40 and in the past all that really mattered was the result in tournaments. People would watch games in groups of friends or family at home or in pubs and would celebrate or commiserate and you would have to wait the next day for papers for national mood. Now people are watching alone online and commenting about the game in real time. People are posting and commenting who clearly haven’t even watched the game. It’s about chasing engagement and it’s a proven fact that negativity is the most efficient way of doing that and so on and so on. Plus I guess there has been a complete pushback and overcompensation for slightly deluded fandom in the 2000s so now everything England does is crap.
When I was younger England fans would be cheering the fortune of being in a slightly easier side of a draw but now England fans attack the manager for that!! That to me is perfect encapsulation of the insanity of England support these days.
@@vincelegs4870this is complete and utter bs. And it’s literally become parody in 2024.
What happens is England play team x. Anyone who says England will beat team x before is called arrogant ignorant and deluded because team x is actually really well organized and hard to beat. Then England beat team x and it’s actually team x were always crap.
See Switzerland who were going to batter us like they did Italy. See Germany when we beat them. Italy, Belgium, Spain.
It completely ignores the context of how poor results were prior to southgate and the nature of international competition where most tournaments winners struggle at various points
This is the argument of a child
he’s so meek during interviews. never speaks with any conviction or passion.
Alfie is going to jinx us now😅
One spring doesn't make a summer
A game of rock paper scissors is a perfect example of a skill game driven by mentality and I think it can be comparable to a penalty shootout
All the penalties were fantastic. felt like a different country. Haha
ok that's cool and all but something way more interesting to talk about is the Welsh premier league.
I knew Ivan Toney's sister at school way back in the day, she mentioned how good her little brother was at Football a few times, cut to 20 odd years later and he is scoring penalties at the euros it's mad lol
Well done on the jinx Alfie, just watch England lose on penalties to the Dutch tonight.
Tomorrow.... it's France Spain tonight
I’d like to see you do a lengthy video about the Crazy Horse Nude Cabaret in Paris.
WRONG! At Euro 96 Platt, Shearer, Gascoigne, Sheringham and Pearce scored all 5 penalties. Southgate missed the 6th.
It's really nice seeing someone giving Southgate some of the credit he rightfully deserves. Maybe the lack of expectation did us better against Switzerland than the rest of the tournament, but come on. The England team I grew up with made it to the quarter finals if lucky. The England team I grew up with got knocked out in the group stage, constsitently. Some people have very very short memories
I remember listening to a Sky Sports interview or some other interview with Mark Noble, ex- West Ham captain who scored over 30 penalties in his career and converted about 90% of them, when he talked about the technique he said the main thing he did was have an idea of which corner he was going to strike the ball, but just before he hit it, he looked up and if he saw the keeper commit he'd just tap it in the other way, I thought this was interesting.
When you look at most Penalty shootouts, you see a lot of penalties hit like that, you see on the replay the keeper has gone early and the player has tapped it in middle or the other way and commentator says it was "calm and collected". Then you see them hit like Ekanji's (where he looked like he was trying to place it into the Corner) and it is called a "poor penalty" (it was) even though many successful Penalties I have watched have been hit the same just the Keeper is already diving the other way. Having played as a Goalkeeper, I know you stand no chance if you guess correctly but they can just plonk it in the bottom or top corner, why keepers go early so if it is off by an inch they can save it, but players notice that and when they see it they can just quickly knock the ball the other way or even down the middle, it was very evident on two of the successful Pens taken by Switzerland, also France's shootout win vs Portugal.
England were excellent but i still don't think we should be getting to high on ourselves... infact I'd rather not go to pens at all...we haven't come here for quarter final win on pens...we need to drastically improve if we want to get our hands on the trophy
Video idea
7 best walkouts in association football
There's definitely factors you can train - actually placing it well, hitting it with enough power, not being nervous and not giving it away. But it's still heavily chance, especially from the keeper's side. I think it was Oliver Kahn who said, as a keeper, you can't really lose on a penalty. The taker has to put it in, the keeper just picks a corner and commits. It's not like you can grow 20 cm taller - as we saw with Sommer, who is a great keeper in a game, but way too small to be good on penalties.
Honestly, that's why I don't like penalties, it contains to much chance for a skill-based game. But football is massively resistant to change, so it's not going anywhere, even though exploring better options to decide games would do the game a big service.
they should do the old school MLS pk system … kicker gets ball 30yards out … dribble and shoot
@@thlee3 Same with hockey
giving Rio as an example for a football opinion only shows how inaccurate it is. Fantastic footballer, but his brain is not great
From what I've seen, Rio isn't often wrong, but, er, he's a bit blunt. I don't think his fellow pundits like him much. Even Roy Keane has learnt to dial it back a bit. Rio jumping in and interrupting his fellow pundits with something that is pretty much correct, but is so blindingly obvious you wonder why it was so important for him to say it. Not a fan.
Rio and Rooney, both clueless
@@robertwilloughby8050 my issue with Rio is he is 100% tribalistic. He's honest I'll give him that but his opinions are influenced by narratives rather than observation
his podcast really bad. he’s not well spoken enough to carry a podcast.
all he does it talk about some sort of best-11
I remember how England had terrible penalties, so this is needed video.
Ice Cold Palmer quietly insisting he took the first kick. Get good, people. Ivan Toney, I double dare you to do that move again.
Alfie, I never heard Matt Le Tissier discuss 'abstruse detail', more's the pity.
Statistically the most important penalties are the 1st and the 4th. So I would say that Ivan and Cole are on the same pedestal
Toney always does it. One step, bang. Different gravy on pens
Pickford is usually excellent in shootouts but against the Swiss he was crap. Needs to stop overthinking it.
Good work done since Euro 2020
Actually poker is notorious for the fact that its rarely the same guys in the final; some guys have a streak, are sitting at finals table for 18 months, and never again.
Imagine if a player called Tony Cole gets called up one day. He'll never miss
PK’s should the old school MLS style …
run up from 30 yards out, dribble and score
It’s are god given right to get carried away only to be humiliated when we ultimately fail.
Answer: because they can't win in 90minutes.
England actually played well today against The Netherlands. I couldn't believe it
Yeah goes against the nihilistic theme of this channel aye?
Come on England!
One of the highlights of this tournament has been the hater 'fans' who said we'd get knocked out by Slovakia then said we'd knocked out by Switzerland scrambling to still get taken seriously 😂
true but England won those games by the skin of their teeth against far weaker teams.
@@collapsiblechair9112 Would England have won a trophy by now if Southgate wasn't in charge?
He has proven that he is isn't that good and hasn't beaten anyone significant during his tenure.
3 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses for WC 18. played every game at home for previous Euro's, beat nobody on the way to the final.
Loses to France at last world cup. He loses every time England plays a proper team.
Would England have won a trophy by now if Southgate wasn't in charge?
He has proven that he is isn't that good and hasn't beaten anyone significant during his tenure.
3 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses for WC 18. played every game at home for previous Euro's, beat nobody on the way to the final.
Loses to France at last world cup. He loses every time England plays a proper team.
@@vincelegs4870 yep, you're one of the people my comment was alluding to... And I'm taking you as seriously as I said 😂😂
But mate... you almost lost against both of them. Its not hate to predict the English Team playing shitty and might even get knocked out by small Nations.
Easy manager reaction guide: when you lose a penalty shootout its a lottery; when you win it's a triumph of character, nerve, skill and preparation.
By putting the ball in the back of the net.
Gareth Southgate, on competition progression in Euros/WC's, is the best England Manager of all time.
Wobbly knees Grobelaar
Yeah Alfie, that’s it, Jinx us
bro jinxed it
Just need to drop that mind set that England have won the game after 1-0 up
What are the 4 shootouts under Southgate??? Columbia, Italy, Switzerland and who???
Switzerland twice (in 2019 and 2024)
@@jimmyyue238oh we’re counting the nations league lol. Fair enough I guess.
France better though
Must work on the fans; that was the first shootout I wasn't covering my eyes and/or away in another room! 🤣
19:10 Just a note, England converted all 6 of their penalties against the Swiss in the Nations League 3rd Place match. Another note, the US easily scored all 5 penalties in the QF against Brazil in the 2011 Women's World Cup and then absolutely botched 3 of 4 in the Final against Japan.
Of course managers will say penalty shootouts are luck, can't be practiced, etc to deflect having to take any responsibility for losing or even getting to penalties in the first place. And believe me, England players don't all of a sudden relish going to penalty shootouts, no player does. They might be more comfortable than the teams of decades ago but won't relish it.
I‘m still salty that y‘all won. It really wasn’t deserved, even if you are a bit better at penalties
Penalty shootouts are a matter of luck for those who lose them, and a matter of determination and accuracy for those who win them.
Even when you go through the whole squad at the Euro's you even have the likes of Lewis Dunk who has scored 4 out of 4 penalties in shootouts. We could bring on almost anyone and you would feel semi confident they would score.
Can you do a video about Willem van Hanegem (imo maybe the most underrated player ever) (21th video)
There's several countries that don't have a regular penalty taker in their squad. England have often had players that were but never showed it for their country i.e. Gerrard, Lampard & Rooney. England had Beckham taking their penalties, even though he wasn't good at them.
Paris Cabaret show review, please.
Careful, you're almost making me like something about Southgate!
Don't hurry now. One win can't obliterate about 10 in a row previous loses. Just because it happened once doesn't mean they are changed. It was just a fluke.
The euros can do the funniest thing ever
Did definitely help, that Pickford had the preferd penalty style of every swiss player written on his waterbottle...
You think so? Lol. To be exact, it wasn't quite as comprehensive as that, it was more like "Dive Left", "Fake left, Dive Right" and so on. Everybody knows he does it, the opposition do, so it's very likely they'll do the opposite of what they typically do to counter. He only saved one, and it was the worst of the bunch.
@@wolfmauler Yes but it was exactly shot the way Akanji usually shoots his penalties and that was exactly what he did.
Can we please have a video about Maltese Football ⚽ Thank you
“The more I practise the luckier I get” Gary Player.
Carlisle united 5 - 4 Stockport county. League 2 play off final 2023.
Our manager Paul Simpson applied learning and research from his time with the England set up.
The nonsense that there’s no point practicing penalties as you can’t recreate the pressure!!!!!
It’s certainly not a lottery nor is it just luck/chance
Alfie, TikTok When?
You can in a way by putting something on the line that the players want to win or should I say not lose.
For example towards the end of a hard training session where the team has been drilled to almost exhaustion.
Have them do penalty practice with say those who don't score only getting half wages/none at all or a all expenses paid weekend.
That way the pressure will be on for them to perform knowing something of value is at stake.
Granted it won't be like a actual tournament with millions watching.
But the element of pressure to succeed will.
That way when they step up to the spot, they will be in a better head space have already practiced under pressure so will know how to centre themselves.
Let me put it this way. Toney wouldn't have missed the penalty that Kane did in the World Cup.
Southgate is certainly not above criticism, and tactically, much of it has been fully warranted.
He really has changed the squad's mentality, though. His England teams have been more tightly knit and psychologically strong than those of any of his predecessors I can remember.
This will be his last tournament, but English fans may miss him sooner than they expect.
Wait until they meet a better team😂😂
Surprised Ferdinand could speak after creaming himself over Saka. Pickford's record doesn't get recognised because he doesn't play for a 'top 6' scum club
It's a bit of a non issue really. We are good at penalties, we've won three out of the last 4 shootouts.
And that's simply a result of the professionalism of the modern England setup. It's not a lottery, there are a lot of variables that you can affect and a professional organisation will find ways of making marginal gains in every part of the process and maximising the chances of success.
I'm hoping earnestly that this is an organisational shift in the England set up and not just a result of Southgate's influence. He's not going to be around for ever.
Day 1 of asking for "Best Footballer From Every Major European City"
You could either do every city with a population over a million (there's 35) or every city with a population over 1.5 million (there's 18)
WEEN
Video Idea:- Best Dead 11
Morbid af
Easy, we repeatedly found ourselves in them due to not wrapping up games. Practice makes perfect.
Nowadays if you want to almost constantly win penalty shootout you need a great penalty shootout stopper like Dibu.
It is no longer a lottery, it is a mental battle between keepers and shooters.
In international football it is much better to use great penalty shootout stopper than great overall goalkeeping because more matches been settled in penalty shootout. Euro 2024 quarter final had 2 out of 4 matches settled in penalty shootout while Copa America 2024 quarter final had 3 out 4.
That is why Brazil keep on losing penalty shootout nowadays because they keep on using Alisson who could only save one penalty in the last 2 penalty shootouts compared to Dibu who saved 3 penalties (plus 1 penalty missed by opposition) in the last 2 penalty shootouts.
England face dark horses and win the penalties. They still lost to Italy in last Euro 2020. Italy is among the top 5 best national team when comes to penalty shootout.
Now this is niche
If there is any justice in football, England won't have to take on any other penalty shootout for the present EURO...
“justice” is bullshit.
This is going to age like month old milk