"I've done this a few times in training," Hornkamp told ESPN NL afterwards. "Because I delay my hop so late, the keeper probably thinks I'm going to shoot, so he dives very early, which means you don't even have to shoot hard, and just calmly pass it into the other corner."
"I practiced this a lot in training, and at some point you're just waiting for a penalty in a match," he said. "And now I thought: now I can actually pull it off."
"I've never seen this before. He limps. You have to have a lot of confidence to pull this off. "We've had the 'hop,' we've seen [Bilal] Ould-Chikh without a run-up, and now we have the"
Heracles received a first-half penalty late in stoppage time during a 4-3 defeat at PSV Eindhoven, and Jizz Hornkamp took the kick. Hornkamp used a delayed two-hop technique practiced in training to draw the goalkeeper into an early dive and then calmly place the ball into the opposite corner. PSV players protested because feinting during a spot kick is against the rules, but Hornkamp said he had refined the move in training and picked the moment to attempt it. PSV's backup keeper questioned the technique at half-time, and an analyst called it novel and confident. Its recurrence remains uncertain.
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