The most exciting situationafter a draw in the knockout stage of a World Cup event is the penalty shootout. After the golden goalrule didn’t work, the best methodintroduced by FIFA to decide a winner of an elimination gamewas a series of penalty shots. It won’t be different for the 2022 Qatar World Cup, as the knockout stage begins with exciting matchups.
Usually takes 120 minutes of play to get to the penalty shootout. After an elimination game in which there isn’t a winner yet. There will be a series of penalty shots that will determine which team winsthegame. However, the score will remain as a drawfor the statistics’ team sheet.
So,the penalty shootouts’ purpose is to be the tiebreaker for a football game, there are rules to follow. For example, only players who were on the field at the end of the match may participate in theshootout. Also, theplayers that make the shotsare chosen by the coach of each team who will also decide the order.
How many penalties does each team take in a penalty shootoutin the FIFA World Cup?
Each shot is taken as a penalty kick is normally taken. This means the shot will befrom thewhite spot in the penalty area, with the goal defended only by the opposing goalkeeper, who must stayin between the goalline until the ball is set in motion, but may jump in place, move his arms and move along the line andtry to distract the kicker.
The teams take turnstryingto score until each team has taken five shots in a first round. If a team no longer has a chance to tie up the number of goals the other team has scored with the remaining kicks, it is not necessary to continue with the remaining kicks and the shootout is ended. This means the winning teamwill have more goals than thelosingteam.
If after the first ten kicks are all tiedup, the teams will take one penalty kick each until the tiebreaker occurs, known as ‘sudden death’. No player may take two kicks unless all his teammates, including the goalkeeper, have taken them first. However, typically a penalty shootout has up to five shots taken by each side for a total of 10 penalty shots.
