Kit Yates<p>With penalties grabbing the headlines in the later stages of the women’s Euros I ask<br>“Can mathematics help players determine how they should take their penalties and what can they do to make it more likely that they hit the back of the net?”</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Lionesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lionesses</span></a><br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250718-the-mathematics-of-the-perfect-penalty-shootout" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2025071</span><span class="invisible">8-the-mathematics-of-the-perfect-penalty-shootout</span></a></p>