{"id":304437,"date":"2022-11-14T13:41:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=304437"},"modified":"2022-11-14T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:02:18","slug":"world-cup-2022-penalty-takers-who-takes-spot-kicks-for-each-team-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/world-cup-2022-penalty-takers-who-takes-spot-kicks-for-each-team-in-qatar","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2022 penalty-takers: Who takes spot-kicks for each team in Qatar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 Fifa World Cup will play out in Qatar between 20 November and 18 December and will involve the highest stakes in football. As with previous editions of the tournament, games are set to carry a distinct air of tension, thus many matches will probably be decided by narrow scorelines. As such, penalties in normal time and extra time often mark decisive moments at World Cups, while the shootouts that the knockout stages bring are designed for that very purpose. At the 2018 World Cup, 29 penalties were awarded, with 22 scored and seven missed or saved. All three figures were records (it is worth noting that the competition in Russia was the first world championship to involve VAR); at the previous World Cup, in Brazil in 2014, 13 penalties were awarded. Penalty shootouts of course involve multiple players taking spot-kicks, but most teams have a designated penalty-taker for in-game occasions. Sometimes there are two or three especially viable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 Fifa World Cup will play out in Qatar between 20 November and 18 December and will involve the highest stakes in football.As with previous editions of the tournament,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}