Penalty corner
The so-called penalty corner or short corner is a particularly dangerous standard situation in hockey .
background
In hockey , an unintentional violation of the rules by the defending team in the shooting circle or gross violations of the rules outside the shooting circle will result in a penalty corner. Seven meters , on the other hand, are only imposed in the case of deliberate rule violations in a circle or those who have very likely prevented a goal.
Penalty corners are usually very good scoring chances and are more dangerous than a corner kick or a direct free kick in football . It is not uncommon for half of all goals in a game to fall after a short corner. For this reason, situations from which a corner could arise are particularly sought after by the attackers, for example by making a targeted attempt to play the ball in a circle at the foot of the opponent. If the referee can see that the defender's violation of the rules was intentionally caused by the striker (e.g. pulling the ball onto the defender's foot for no apparent reason for this movement), a tee shot can be given.
procedure
In the case of a penalty corner, up to five players, in field hockey exactly four, players of the defending team go to the level of the goal line next to or in the goal. You have to be with your feet behind the line, just like the goalkeeper. The remaining defenders have to go back behind the center line. One player of the attacking team ( thrower ) is with the ball at the height of the goal line, any number of other attackers are outside the firing circle. After the referee has released the corner by lowering his arm, the purseer will play against one of the attackers; the defending players may only enter the shooting circle after this has been passed. The attacker has to accept the ball outside of the shooting circle or at least leave the shooting circle for a short time after accepting the ball. Once this has happened, several options are open to him.
In contrast to the current game, a shot on goal (ie the stick hits the ball after a backward movement) in a penalty corner in field hockey must not rise higher than 45 cm. This rule was introduced in 1992 to address defender violations such as B. Stefan Blöcher (was life-threateningly injured in the head by a ball hit high). This maximum height is also known as the board height , since a field hockey goal contains a 45 cm high box structure. It is sometimes difficult for the referee to judge whether the struck ball exceeded 45 cm during the flight and then fell back onto the board .
In indoor hockey penalty corners, as is generally the case there, it is not allowed to hit.
On account of the 1992 rule change the familiar from the indoor hockey technique was the Schlenzens adapted for the field hockey. Due to long-term optimization of the sequence of movements, the progressive shift of the game to artificial turf and further development of the rackets (e.g. through composite plastics and the introduction of leader ), Schlenzballs now also reach speeds of approx. 100 km / h.
Roles of the players and variants
attacker
The attacking team needs a publisher. The number of other attackers is not specified, theoretically the entire team can move up. After the ball has been handed over to a teammate, the ball must briefly leave the shooting circle before the shot on goal can be taken.
There are already a multitude of options at the time of the handover, which also result from the fact that a penalty corner can be executed from the right or left, as the attacking team chooses. The pass can either take place briefly on a teammate standing close to the outer edge of the circle ( lazy corner ) or, the most common variant, on a teammate on the middle edge of the circle. Here a player can take the ball and then continue playing or shooting it. But there is also the possibility of a player specifically as a stopper, whose only task is to stop the ball. The ball is then used by another player. This is one of the most common methods.
In principle, the number of possible corner variants cannot be quantified. The ball can be directly shot or geschlenzt, stored on a neighbor, played back to the clean encoder or played into the circle where another teammate a Stecher tried. Complicated, but if successful, combinations such as B. a one-two. Speed and precision are generally important in a penalty corner in order to give the defense as little chance to defend as possible.
defender
In contrast to the attack options, only a few different types of defense are practiced. Usually one or two players stay in the goal, one as a head protection for high balls, the other (if you opt for the variant with two defenders on the line) as a foot protection for flat shots . Another player (the runner ) usually storms out and towards the potential shooter to block his shot with the stick. The roles of the other off-baseline defender (s) may vary. A defender running out tries to intercept a possibly discarded ball (ie after the attacking team has stopped the ball at right angles to the offshoot ). Depending on the agreement of the defending team, a defender will also cover the purveyor if this is played.
A fifth defender is available in the hall, who can be used as a counter-attacker or an additional defender. Since the indoor season 2009/10, not all players of the defending team have to be behind the goal line in a penalty corner; any number of players may be in the opposing half of the field. Players of the defending team are still not allowed to stand in their own half when executing a penalty corner.
goalkeeper
In field hockey, the goalkeeper usually does not run out of the goal ( running off the corner ), but expects the ball just before the baseline. Formerly the standard in goalkeeping training in this situation was the assumption of a position bent slightly to the right, from which the goalkeeper stands up if a flick or a play can be recognized from the shooter's movement. With a shot, however, the goalkeeper throws himself flat on the ground and tries to shield the allowed shot height of 45 cm with his body. As a countermeasure, penalty corners are nowadays often performed as a flat flick, so that the goalkeeper has to stand still (as it is not possible to tell whether the flick is flat or high).
In indoor hockey, on the other hand, many goalkeepers run out immediately after the ball has been passed, as the radius of the shooting circle is much smaller at 9 m compared to around 15 m in field hockey. This gives the goalkeeper the opportunity to shorten the angle while running out and to catch the slouched or flattened ball with his body or protective equipment. The disadvantage of this variant is the susceptibility to corner designs in which the ball is passed across, since the pass recipient then has the empty goal in front of him. That is why we recommend running out of the goalkeeper only for teams with a very well-rehearsed defense that reliably covers the free attackers.
Others
Due to the high speed of the kick balls in field hockey, the defenders who are the last man on the line (usually a defender on the goalkeeper's glove side) often protect themselves with protective masks and jockstraps that are put on for the corner and then removed again.
