Whenever I see a penalty collector hit the dug style, I think: is this really necessary?
Anyone who follows the sport knows what the cavadinha means on the penalty. I explain to those who do not accompany. It is the act in which the player, with a touch under the ball, makes her perform a parable, rising and then falling, usually in the center of the goal. It is a subtle kick, without strength.
As the goalkeeper usually chooses a corner and jumping to try to make the defense, he is fooled by this strategy. When it works, more than being deceived, the goalkeeper is humiliated.
For the intention of the kicker in daring is to humiliate the opponent, the inglorious position attributed to him in the matches: avoiding the goal is obligation; When it fails, it is fragrant, it becomes malicious, it is not just called Barbosa because most today do not know who is Barbosa-the goalkeeper of Brazil in the 1950 World Cup.
Now, when it does not work, the penalty scout is in bad sheets, especially if it wasted the charge in front of the fans itself.
This is what happened to striker Yuri Alberto, from Corinthians, in the match against Flamengo on Sunday (28), for the Brazilian Championship.
With the score 0-0 in Itaquera, Yuri wanted to do the grace against Argentine goalkeeper Rossi. He took very badly on the ball, and the dug fell into the hands of the red-black shirt 1, which had jumped to the right.
The dug was so weak that Rossi grabbed the ball even though he was sitting. As he got up, he even shouted toward the 9 Corinthian, who was close to him, I suppose, “Not with me!”
Yuri was still redeemed to, in the second half, make a beautiful goal and celebrate in the arms of the fans. He loved the anger of fans, but Flamengo became the match and won 2-1. In the end, Yuri’s mistake in the cavadinha was determinant for the alvinegro setback.
It was not the first time a Corinthian wasted a penalty while trying the cavadinha.
Also in this year’s Brazilian, Dutch Memphis Depay was wrong against Mirassol. Goalkeeper Walter was in the middle of the goal and defended. In the 2013 Brazil Cup, in penalty shootout against Grêmio in the quarterfinals, Alexandre Pato kicked like Yuri now, and Dida (the same, Brazil’s holder at the 2006 World Cup) took. Corinthians eliminated.
The difference is that Memphis and Pato tried the failed dug in games away from home, not in front of the faithful. Who went crazy, in the bad sense, with Yuri.
There were penalties that worked and became famous, such as Uruguayan “Loco” Abreu in the penalty shootout against Ghana in the quarterfinals of the 2010 World Cup and that of Zinédine Zidane in the 2006 World Cup final – the French star had the help of the crossbar.
Travession that was Messi’s enemy at last year’s Copa America, USA, Argentina x Ecuador. In the penalty shootout in the quarterfinals, the dug went wrong. Fortunately for Supercrows, Argentina advanced.
There are almost no comparative studies of penalty kicks. One of the rare, performed by Mikael Jamil, Perry Littman and Marco Beato of the University of Suffolk (England), analyzed 1,716 penalty kicks on four European leagues (Premier League, La League, Bundesliga and Serie A) from 2015 to 2019.
The result shows that the rate of hits of the cavadinha, according to the analysis of another researcher (Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, from the School of Economics and Political Science of London), is up to 5 percentage points below the penalties beaten with strong or placed kicks.
So, it doesn’t seem to be a good deal to opt for the penalty with cavadinha. Is it surprising? Yes. Is it an expeditable? Fully.
I am conservative at this point: penalty is serious, and the scout has to minimize the risk of waste as much as possible. As? Choosing a corner and beating with focus, strength and firmness. It will hardly make mistakes.
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