When you plant your non shooting foot near the ball as you’re about to strike it you want to make maximum contact with minimal movement from the ball. When players scuff up the spot and stomp around on it the ground becomes softer/broken up which as a result can cause the ball to shift when you put the weight on that non shooting foot.
A great example of this you can see the keeper roughing the edge of the spot - https://youtu.be/yZN_2D5nlRg?si=7oK2yL71U2RGmKlp - resulting in a poor pen and the striker slipping over as the ground shifted when his non shooting foot is planted.
If you’re striking the ball with power and it shifts an inch before you make contact the ball is going to be spooned, sometimes it still goes in but often you see it fly wide/over.
It’s dirty AF though and any team remotely experienced should have a player standing on the spot the moment their team is given a penalty to prevent this.
They’re partially right though, you can do it at any point in the second half. What’s stopping a keeper from messing with the penalty spot when the ball is in the other team’s half and nobody is looking at them?
I’m sorry, but does that really affect the kick?
It does massively.
When you plant your non shooting foot near the ball as you’re about to strike it you want to make maximum contact with minimal movement from the ball. When players scuff up the spot and stomp around on it the ground becomes softer/broken up which as a result can cause the ball to shift when you put the weight on that non shooting foot.
A great example of this you can see the keeper roughing the edge of the spot - https://youtu.be/yZN_2D5nlRg?si=7oK2yL71U2RGmKlp - resulting in a poor pen and the striker slipping over as the ground shifted when his non shooting foot is planted.
If you’re striking the ball with power and it shifts an inch before you make contact the ball is going to be spooned, sometimes it still goes in but often you see it fly wide/over.
It’s dirty AF though and any team remotely experienced should have a player standing on the spot the moment their team is given a penalty to prevent this.
Yes
Could you mess the spot up at the start of each half or does it have to be done right before the penalty is taken? Is it less effective?
You swap sides, you might fuck yourself.
They’re partially right though, you can do it at any point in the second half. What’s stopping a keeper from messing with the penalty spot when the ball is in the other team’s half and nobody is looking at them?
You’re basically creating a bobbled, uneven ground.
When you plant your foot as you kick, it might make the ball move a bit, or it might even catch the ball as it’s kicked and essentially nudge it.