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sorry, because Iāve said this twenty times in these threads, but Iām saying it again! I think there is a better way to end a game than penalties. I do think penalties are better than infinite sudden death, and also that theyāre better than ADG threeways and NASL-era dribbly formats where attackers start from ~35 yards out and have x seconds to shootāI prefer penalties to these mostly because when you add dribbling then it gets weirdly muddled & pythagorean & dangerous and (above all) less watchable.
But in regular penalty shootouts almost all the pressure is on the shooters, and man, that canāt be right. I wish theyād experiment in shootouts by moving the distance of the penalty spot back however far it took for the conversion rates to settle around 50% (as opposed to current ~85%). And I wouldnāt limit it to one spot, Iād let the shooter pick their spot along a designated line or arc, and Iād be open to adjusting this distance as data kept coming in. In a perfect world theyād get to pick any point they wanted along the perimeter of the 18-yard box itself, but I donāt know if thatās the right distance.
Imo this change would turn the current variance carnival into something way more skillful for both shooter & keeper. Keepers would feel a zillion times more nervous and isolatedāthey would guess less and their dreams would be haunted by the potential for a historically humiliating flubābut they would also have better opportunities to make absurdly athletic saves that are more pleasing to the eye and mind than ātwo-hour game ends when keeper flips a coin and ball smashes him in the neck.ā
And while shooters might not feel the same soul-crumpling pressure to make every single penalty, theyāre also not gonna exactly relax at the prospect of a billion people watching them try to blast and/or knuckle and/or swerve a ball on goal from distance. The first time Fazio takes one of these heās going to shank it sideways for a throw-in and the gifs will be great and the idea will have instantly paid for itself
I donāt know what Iād do about regular penalties during the game. Yes it sucks when a fluky borderline handball yields a penalty kick thatās an almost certain goal, and maybe thereās a world out there where the referee is awarding two kinds of penaltiesāone for serious infractions inside the box that would be taken from the current 12-yard spot and another for more incidental stuff that would be taken from the farther 50% spotābut even just typing it out like that I can tell that such ideas are doomed because they just overcomplicate things and shift the argument to whether suchandsuch foul was worthy of the 12-yard spot. So I donāt really have an opinion about regular penalties, theyāre probably more or less fine as-is. But penalty shootouts are really unsatisfying!
PS any television production crew that films any kind of penalty whatsoever from the side as opposed to directly behind the shooter, I mean, I donāt even know what to do with these guys, I think the best I can say is that their entire worldview is just way different than mine.
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I bet heavily on man city but I feel strongly it will draw
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Seems to be the team for tonight, I hope they do it just because there playing Chelsea.
Draw seems the best bet but who wants to bet that shit. 
I donāt think keepers should take penalties in a penalty shootout and not because of the eufa final, Iāve alway hated it, seen it before and thought it sucked and really sucked for the keepers tbh, I mean wtf.
10-10 then thatās a replay guys 
But Neuer
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Larne1
Coleraine 0
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https://mobile.twitter.com/City_Xtra/status/1398697183935975426
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChelseaFC/status/1398697695619997696
Glentoran
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Crusaders
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64 mins
Larne
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Coleraine
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57 mins
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Saves me posting this for now
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OK Calling it as I never predict a correct result.
2-0 Man city
Chelsea 2-1
Pulisic comes on at 60 and scores the tying and winning goal
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Iāve got it up on YouTube BT Sport as itās a better picture & on time, unlike my box 
City is the best worst option I suppose
Definitely Chelsea
Because Pulisic
Decent game atm, end to end sort of pep style
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Kev need to drop back a bit and stretch those legs oot
Iām supporting Kev tonight, he deserves a win in a major championship 