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.
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.