The Secret to Stopping a Penalty Kick



Landon Donovan hosts a trio of legendary MLS goalkeepers in Kasey Keller, Joe Cannon, and Kevin Hartman for a roundtable discussion during MLSsoccer.com’s inaugural Goalkeeper Week.

Part III pertains to the art of preparing for–and saving–penalty kicks. Also, the guys describe why Nick Rimando is so good at saving penalty kicks.

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14 thoughts on “The Secret to Stopping a Penalty Kick”

  1. My tactic to stop PK that works on me soooo effective
    How to stop it is: when the player try to shoot you have to look at the eyes if the player’s eye looked left then the ball goes to left if the eye look right then the ball goes right

  2. First, I agree with ravenrog, there’s no discussion of technique. Second, one technique that allowed me to save almost half the PKs I faced as a goalkeeper 20 years ago is to look at the feet of the striker. The striker has to set his plant foot to get a good strike on the ball. And that plant foot comes down just a split second before the actual strike. The overwhelming majority of the time, the direction of the plant foot gives away the direction of the kick. That split second know,edge is a huge advantage when trying to stop the PK. I recommend watching the plant foot on PKs and you’ll see the same thing.

  3. How to stop a PK
    1. Try not to panic
    2. Pray
    3. Cuss out your defender
    4. Pray
    5. Ask the stars, scream into the void, and summon Satan to figure out where they will kick
    6. Pray
    Hope this helps 😉

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