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To be honest, the first time I played, I thought it was just a matter of clicking to shoot, but it turned out to be nothing of the sort. The core of this game is drawing the ball’s trajectory with your mouse, rather than simply pressing a button. You can draw a curving shot, chip a delicate lob, or even pull off a wild S-shaped curve—as long as you can fool the goalkeeper, anything goes. To take a shot, you need to hold down the mouse and drag to control the direction and power, then release to strike the ball. That goalkeeper gets increasingly cunning; if you score in the bottom-left corner the first time, do you think you can use the same trick the second time? He’ll dive straight at it and save it. So you have to think on your feet with every shot, observing and deceiving just like a real penalty taker. Many similar games only let you take the shots, but this one lets you take turns—one round you’re the taker, the next you’re the keeper. When you’re in goal, you have to watch the opponent’s run-up and the moment they shoot, judge whether they’re going left or right, and then click the mouse to make the save. To be honest, the thrill of saving a penalty is even better than scoring one.