Should stutter penalties be allowed?

I always assume the player will miss when I see it.
 
No. Lewandowski farting about, then has the cheek to call out the goalkeeper for moving. It's like threatening to punch someone in the face, then having the moral high ground because the other person flinched.
 
Remember the geese said:
No. Lewandowski farting about, then has the cheek to call out the goalkeeper for moving. It's like threatening to punch someone in the face, then having the moral high ground because the other person flinched.
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That's the entire point of that circus. Goalkeeper not only has to predict where the penalty is going, but also needs to predict when exactly he will take the shot. It's insane that the rules still allow that.
 
I don’t mind them if they stutter once, but Lewandowski’s were ridiculous. The last time a penalty annoyed me was Pogbas
 
TheRedHearted said:
He missed a penalty then?
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Missed first time but was allowed to retake for the 'keeper being off his line.

For my money he didn't just stutter step, he stopped completely which I thought wasn't allowed anyway. Even if it is allowed I'm saying it shouldn't be, not to that degree.
 
Definitely not, he nearly missed it a second time as well. Think if keeper had saved it though it would’ve been retaken again as the keeper was faked into moving off his line
 
The holy trinity 68 said:
Why can't elite strikers just sprint at the ball and kick it as hard as they can into the top corner.
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Lewa had an amazing penalty technique before he switched into that. I'd guess that if he feels that this is even a tiny bit safer, then the stakes are too high to care about looking like a clown.
 
On its own I could accept it but when the goalkeeper can't leave his line while being dummied two thousand times, you know that the rule has nothing to do with fairness.
 
Best pen farce I've ever seen wasn't even a stutter... it was Henry and Pires the Pirate.
 
Those Lewa situations were ridiculous.

Cant they make the rules so that allows stutter penalties but then the keeper is also allowed to get off his line at the first stutter?
 
Chipper said:
Missed first time but was allowed to retake for the 'keeper being off his line.

For my money he didn't just stutter step, he stopped completely which I thought wasn't allowed anyway. Even if it is allowed I'm saying it shouldn't be, not to that degree.
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Agreed. All the keeper has is to guess a side for their defense, not much else they can do. This stutter step nonsense is crazy
 
Get rid.

Penalty takers already have the advantage, by a mile. If you can't just run up and take a free and unimpeded shot from 12 yards without farting about, then you shouldn't be taking them.
 
There's levels to the stuttering. In my eyes changing speeds or doing a skip or whatever during the run-up is fine as long as there's forward movement the whole way, but it seems like referees are either extremely lenient with their definition of what that is or terrified of actually calling the kicker out on it. I also don't mind the big Bruno-style jump immediately before hitting the ball. I don't think it unsettles the goalie any more than it disadvantages the kicker by making it harder to hit the ball with power and accuracy.

In my opinion Lewandowski was clearly in violation of the forward movement rule. He was planted with both feet right next to each other part-way through the run-ups for both his penalties. At no point does that happen during running or walking, no matter how slow or fast you're going. When that happens it's called 'standing still'. If the rulebook needs a clear-cut definition of forward movement it would be impossible to include some sort of maximum amount of time a player can be stationary before it's in violation. The easiest way to do it is to look at the mechanics of runnng and walking and for instance require that the legs have to be moving towards the ball at all times and that every step has to hit the ground ahead of the previous one. No matter how I look at it, in terms of running mechanics Lewandowski stopped running and started standing, even if it was only for a very short amount of time.
 
Brings back bad memories of Ronaldo missing his penalty in the CL final.

They are ugly to look at, and not that effective.
 
How about we make the taker run from the half way line non stop? Would be a proper spectacle then. Smash top bins or smash row z's faces.
 
They are ugly as sin and i automatically hate any player who does them. I’m not even sure they have a higher success rate.
 
I’m really not convinced it gives any advantage at all compared to just taking it properly. It looks fecking awful too.
 
Keepers movements are limited.

Taker should only be allowed a 1 step kick.
 
They should do something like introduce a 4-5 second timer from the moment a run up begins and after that time has elapsed, the keeper is free to come off his line.
 
It's so stupid. If they're going to allow penalty takers to do that, then they should do away with the rule that roots keepers to the line. You can't expect to stay rooted to the line while the taker pump fakes him 10 times. It's basically a cheat code. Lewa knows most likely he'll either score or if he misses there's a good chance he'll get to retake it because he got the keeper to bite on one of his pump fakes.
 
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