Special Abilities For Goalkeepers And Strikers

[Gert Funck]

Penalties either way, is the worst SA's ever IMO

You could also ask:

Freekick => corner => penalty = Freekick kinda represents them all?

But if it is as I think D&D build dice toss scenarios the logic doesn't matter

[Tactician]

Penalties either way, is the worst SA's ever IMO

Just in case the penalty special ability does do something positive, the one-on-one ability should cover penalties as penalties are one-on-one situations. So, the special ability for penalties has even less value than the one-on one ability. The one-on-one ability can be said to be a two-in-one ability. But still, it all depends on how they programmed it.

[Tactician]

Penalties either way, is the worst SA's ever IMO

You could also ask:

Freekick => corner => penalty = Freekick kinda represents them all?

But if it is as I think D&D build dice toss scenarios the logic doesn't matter

By definition, we can say that corners and penalties are free kicks. But, the qualities requires to take different free kicks are different. Someone good at crossing the ball can take free kicks and corners, but he can still have difficulty taking some free kicks because of the wall, the distance and the power of the shot needed and so on. A corner specialist will definitely have good crossing ability, while a free kick specialist will need good shooting ability as well.

But for a penalty, the main qualities that you need here is decision, calmness, shooting power and accuracy, which all are needed for one-on-ones. What one-on-ones need in extra is acceleration and control (which both can be put as one - dribbling) so that the player can round the goalkeeper to score if needed.

Speaking of abilities, I think that a player should not be limited to only one ability. There are so many players in real life that had more than 1. For e.g, Thierry Henry and Andrea Pirlo had 4, Lionel Messi And C. Ronaldo have at least 2, D. Beckham and Ryan Giggs had 2.