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You realize how many people still get it wrong after all the research? Of course it's not always right, in fact often wrong if you look at the PK success rate.
Very true. Both teams would have studied the other players for this reason. Guaranteed Argentina would inform their players about Pickford’s tendencies. At this level it’s expected that this level of research is done.
I meant it more about mocking the level of a football world cup game preparation, but yes, I'll admit baseball allows for very detailed research and data analysis.
Researching penalty kick tendencies is important, but even if the game goes to penalty kicks to win, you're unlikely to face a single kicker in a penalty kick in a single game more than 2 or 3 times. And the most you might see one team in the tournament is twice (if you played them before the knockout rounds, and then hit them again).
In the MLB, each batter is likely to come up 4 times a game, and you'll play them 3 (or maybe even 4) times in a row. If they're in your division you'll play them a total of 12, 13 games.
So that's each batter, 40-50 times.
The statistical tendencies of each batter matters more if you will face them a statistically significant number of times.
Messi shoots lower right unless the keeper commits early and then he shoots middle or left. The note on the bottle says fake that direction and then dive the other way. Basically try to get Messi to go off script from his usual spot to mess him up and then save it when he shoots to the left. You could either do that, or stand still and attempt to react and dive hard to where he normally shoots and just make an athletic save.
Yes, they all do similar. Nothing new. There is a famous penalty shootout where the goalie actually took time to review his notes on a piece of paper prior to each kick while the kicker was waiting. It is part helpfully to the goalie and part of how they psychologically get into the head of the kicker.
If you ever watch baseball, College or Pro, you can see the players look at a sheet, which I assume has info on the batter, where is balls teams to drop, etc, so they know to be ready for this guy or that
Now he can do the opposite. Except now they know he's going to do the opposite, so they'll adjust for that. But he knows they know he's going to do the opposite, so he'll...
Earlier in the tournament we saw one of the teams (was it Egypt?) huddled reviewing opponent's PK footage on a laptop after the second overtime ended in a tie. Makes sense to have a cheat sheet. Detail on there is impressive.
Messi: Right translates to derecho in Spanish
Gonzalez: So you’re saying derecho translates to straight in English?
Messi: Yes, but derecho also translates to right
Gonzalez: So right means straight on the bottle?
Messi: 😶
I played D1 football, and against one of our rivals we purposely left a fake call sheet on their field during warmups the day before. I wonder if that's what happened here.
This is very common in football it became a thing in the 90s and then gained more popularity in the 2000s. But it's cool to see players reacting to what the keeper had put.
Why are they shocked? I would be shocked if their keeper was dumb enough to not research trends for the penalty takers before hand. This has been a thing for many years now.
Maybe the only difference is it looks like Pickford planned out his exact routine for each taker. That's about it.
I was an amateur athlete into my mid thirties and we had sheets for all the teams we played going into tournament weekends. Most of the time we had enough connections and history we had practices designated to each team we'd likely face going into the weekend.
We knew the cutting patterns, dump routines, handler weaves, throwing preferences (forehand backhand), the thrower/receiver connections (which throwers liked to go deep with certain receivers). The end zone plays they had and how to defend them.
We'd call defenses depending on who had the disc and who was on the field. It's pretty average stuff honestly.
I wonder how aware they are of their own tendencies? Like maybe some of the actually learned something about what they were doing. Like Messi is "wait everybody knows i do that?"
God how can you play at the top level of scientists and not know there is countless researchers and data scientists who study this shit for exactlythese moments?
A friend of mine does it for a league one club. Provides key stats on every opponent player in every squad.. down to the likelihood of each winger cutting inside versus going on the outside.
Utterly mad that Messi would be shocked that Pickford had accurate information on penalty taking for some of the highest profile players in the world.
Nono it is clearly legal, all the teams do it. This time was "funny" the fact Pickford left the water bottle on the field at the end of the game and nothing much
I assume this is like what tom Brady’s wristband looked like - not his own plays bc those were burned on his brain, but all the defensive tendencies of the Chiefs
This is why the stutter steps are such a thing now. They wait for the keeper to commit to something then change, cause they know the research that has gone into everything. Having said that, there is only a few players that actually can change things well.
I feel like people who are surprised at Pickford having this on his water bottle are new football fans. This is done by nearly all keepers in very important matches, for a long time, too.
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