u/anodai

It seems like quite often a player take a hurried shot on goal and it soars waaaay over the net, like the whole height of the goal and then some. I understand they are taking shots at very high speed under a lot of pressure from the defense, but it seems like there are never such wide misses in the horizontal dimension as compared to the vertical.

What is it about the mechanics of kicking that make misses that are wildly high like this more prevalent ? Or is there something else going on?

In some of the games that I have watched, including the USA's matches against both Paraguay and Australia, the commenters have said something along the lines of, "this team is comfortable conceding control of the ball/time of possession to their opponent" (referring to Paraguay and Australia in those two examples). This strikes me as a terrible strategy as time of possession seems like it should correlate with opportunities to score in most sports, but hey, I don't know anything about the game. And yet sure enough, in every match where this has been said, the team who the announcers are talking about ends up controlling the ball for a small portion of the game, taking less shots on goal, and losing.

So what the hell is going on? Is this a real strategy and if so how is it supposed to work? Or is just announcers spouting cope?

I ask this in the spirit of non-judgemental curiosity: what are you doing and/or how are you using Anki so that this is happening? Do you see it as a problem or a feature?

I've commonly seen this over peoples' shoulders in class and it seems incomprehensible to me. I want to understand because I signed up to help tutor pre-clinical students. I know that Anki use is a common subject for questions & I want to be able to provide appropriate advice.

Really seems like there's a "how the other half lives" type of phenomenon going on re: how people use Anki in medical school.