How to bend it like Beckham: Scientists 明らかにする／漏らす the 決まり文句／製法 for a winning football match - and why players should NEVER 目的（とする） for the centre in 刑罰，罰則s

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Science and football aren't two things you would 普通は associate with one another.?

But in 最近の years, several clubs have brought boffins on board in the hopes of 上げるing their chances of success.??

Liverpool has partnered with Google's AI?会社／堅い DeepMind to?advise coaches on corner kicks, while other clubs have 雇うd astrophysicists to analyse data and are even?using ミサイル-跡をつけるing 科学（工学）技術?to 陰謀（を企てる） the move of every player.?

So, can science really tell us how to bend it like Beckham?

MailOnline spoke to 専門家s to 暴露する the 決まり文句／製法 for the winning football match ahead of Manchester 部隊d's match against Liverpool this Sunday.

Can science really tell us how to bend it like Beckham? MailOnline spoke to 専門家s to 暴露する the 決まり文句／製法 for the winning football match ahead of Manchester 部隊d's match against Liverpool this Sunday

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Keepers 公式文書，認めるd for quick reaction times 含む David 船員, pictured here during Euro 1996 in London

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PENALTIES?

Taking a 刑罰，罰則 is surely the most 神経-wracking experience for any player ? a 選び出す／独身 moment that can decide the result of an entire tournament.?

The question of how a 刑罰，罰則 should be taken has been so hotly 審議d, but an 専門家 at the University of Bath （人命などを）奪う，主張するs to have a 解答.?

Dr Ken Bray, a theoretical physicist and former?science 顧問 to Southampton FC, said takers?should always 目的（とする） for outside of the '飛び込み envelope'.?

This is an area that a goalkeeper is reasonably 推定する／予想するd to be able to reach, while the area outside the 飛び込み envelope is known as 'the unsaveable zone'.

If players kick the ball に向かって the?飛び込み envelope they have a 50 per cent of 得点する／非難する／２０ing and a 50 per cent chance of the ball 存在 saved.?

But if the 攻撃者 kicks it at the unsaveable zone there's an 80 per cent chance of 得点する／非難する／２０ing.

によれば an 専門家 at the University of Bath, when taking a 刑罰，罰則 players should always 目的（とする） for outside of the '飛び込み envelope'?

The 普通は reliable Harry Kane 行方不明になるs his 刑罰，罰則 for England against フラン in the World Cup in Qatar, December 2022?

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'Why take the 危険 of a 50/50 発射 when there's such an attractive and 平易な-to-reach placement for a reasonably-技術d performer,' said Dr Bray.?

'You might just 同様に duck out of taking the 刑罰，罰則 altogether and ask the ref to spin a coin instead.'?

Dr Bray also argues that coaches must be in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of selecting players for the shoot-out, instead of waiting for the players to decide between them.?

'Too often in the past we've seen England coaches wandering around at the end of extra time asking, 'Who's up for a 刑罰，罰則?' he said.?

'Coaches should know the success 率s of 刑罰，罰則 takers in their squad.'??

FREE KICKS

Some of the greatest 解放する／自由な kicks ever seem to 反抗する the 法律s of science.?

England's David Beckham and Brazil's Roberto Carlos were?purveyors of the いわゆる '白人指導者べったりの東洋人 kick' ? where the ball curves outrageously to deceive the goalkeeper.?

存在 able to 'bend it like Beckham' is a 事例／患者 of 追加するing rotation to the ball as it moves, which can be done by kicking it off-centre.?

David Beckham, playing here for Los Angeles 星雲 in 2008, was renowned for curving the ball in the 空気／公表する from 解放する／自由な kicks - coining the phrase 'bend it like Beckham'?

Footballs curve in the 空気／公表する like this 予定 to an 影響 known by physicists as the 'Magnus 影響',?指名するd for the German physicist who 調査／捜査するd it.?

予定 to the spin on the ball, the 空気／公表する on one 味方する is moving in the opposite direction to the direction the ball is 長，率いるing.?

This difference in airflow creates a 圧力 difference ? and this?押し進めるs the ball sideways.?

Alternatively, if the ball is kicked straight in the middle, it will move without any rotation and hence in more-or-いっそう少なく a straight line.?

In 2012, physics students at the?University of Leicester?published a paper setting out the optimum way of kicking a football so it bends into the goal.?

They said the distance a ball bends is 関係のある to several factors 含むing the 濃度／密度 of the 空気／公表する and the distance travelled by the ball in the direction it was kicked.?

For instance, if a player standing 50 feet (15 metres) from the byline kicked the ball so that it was travelling at 78 miles per hour (35 metres per second), the ball would bend 16 feet (5 metres), compared to a 発射 without any spin.?

研究員s at the?University of Leicester calculated the 科学の 決まり文句／製法 for bending it like Beckham

When a football spins in the 空気／公表する, it is 支配するd to a 軍隊 called the Magnus 軍隊, which 原因（となる）s it to curl sideways from the direction it was 初めは kicked.?予定 to the spin on the ball, the 空気／公表する on one 味方する is moving in the opposite direction to the direction the ball is headi ng. This difference in airflow creates a 圧力 difference - and this 押し進めるs the ball sideways

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However, a player would need to bring a tape 手段 and a 晴雨計 along with them if they 手配中の，お尋ね者 to put the theory into practice during a match.?

によれば another 熟考する／考慮する in 2020, goalkeepers are いっそう少なく likely to save a 解放する／自由な kick if they have a 塀で囲む in 前線 of them.?

When there's a 塀で囲む, the goalkeeper's sight is 封鎖するd for around 200 milliseconds and their reaction time is up to 90 milliseconds slower, it said.?

CORNERS?

When it comes to taking a corner, the big question is whether an 'outswinger' or an 'inswinger' is the better 選択.?

With an inswinger, the ball is curling inwards に向かって the goal, 反して with an outswinger, it's curling away from the goal.???

Scientists at Ulster University in Belfast may finally have an answer as to which one is more 効果的な.?

They analysed the position of all goals 得点する／非難する／２０d from corners in a 選び出す／独身 season of the Northern Ireland Football League (NIFL), the country's 最高の，を越す tier.?

によれば the findings, 8 per cent of the goals 得点する／非難する／２０d from corners (56 out of 70) （機の）カム from inswingers, while just 17 per cent were from outswingers and 3 per cent were from short corners.?

In particular, the highest 百分率 of goals 得点する／非難する／２０d (5.4 per cent) were inswinging corners 配達するd into the central area of the six-yard box.?

With an inswinger, the ball is curling inwards に向かって the goal, 反して with an outswinger, it's curling away from the goal

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'The finding 示唆するs that corner kicks are more 効果的な at producing goals in the NIFL 首相の職,' 熟考する／考慮する author?Dr Kyle Ferguson at?Ulster University told MailOnline.?

'Corners should be an important area for teams to 焦点（を合わせる） on offensively and defensively during the match 準備.'?

一方／合間, a 2023 熟考する／考慮する by 専門家s at the University of Thessaly in Greece 設立する?the 百分率 of outswinging corners ending in an 成果／努力 に向かって goal was 意味ありげに higher than the 百分率 of inswinging corners.?

However, there was no statistically 重要な difference in the 各々の 百分率s of corners that ended in actual goals.?

Dr Bray at the University of Bath, 一方／合間, believes that quickly-taken short corners are always the best 選択 when possible.?

'Taking a 従来の corner can 降伏する 所有／入手, while a short corner 保持するs the ball and may 許す an 攻撃者 to run it into the 刑罰，罰則 area ? 供給するing a better chance to 脅す the goal,' he said.?

THROW-INS?

It may seem like an unimportant part of the match ? throwing the ball 支援する の上に the pitch when it's gone out of play.

But 熟考する／考慮するs 示唆する the attacking 可能性のある of a throw-in is still 大部分は overlooked in the modern game.?

さもなければ known as '投げつけるing it', the 手段 of 開始する，打ち上げるing the ball from the sidelines into the 刑罰，罰則 box was a specialty of the likes of Stoke's?Rory Delap and?Cardiff's Andy Legg.?

Stoke City's Rory Delap is pictured here leaving the ground as he takes one of his trademark throws against?Manchester 部隊d in October 2010

によれば 分析 by The 運動競技の, a throw-in into the 刑罰，罰則 area is more likely to lead to a goal than a short throw ? not just 権利 away but in the next 30 seconds.

Over the course of four 首相 League seasons, 分析家s 設立する that short throw-ins were 価値（がある） an 普通の／平均（する） of 0.010 推定する／予想するd goals each.?

But throw-ins into the box were 価値（がある） more than 二塁打 that ??0.022 推定する／予想するd goals, which equates to 22 goals for every 1,000 throws.?

Clubs may 差し控える from long throw-ins out of 恐れるs of losing 所有／入手 quickly or not having the 権利 的 men to 得点する／非難する／２０ from them, it said.?

But even if a player doesn't 得点する／非難する／２０ 直接／まっすぐに from a throw, the 'real value' is in 回復するs and loose balls while the defending team is '動揺させるd'.?

The idea of 簡単に getting the ball into the 刑罰，罰則 box to 増加する the probability of a goal happening was 開拓するd by?British statistician Charles Reep in the 1950s.?

Today, Reep is credited for the 'long ball game' ? booting it?to a チーム仲間 through the 空気／公表する so the 対立 can't 迎撃する it ? which many English clubs still favour.?