Penalty Shootout - Rationale

Rationale

A penalty shootout is normally used only in situations where a winner is needed (for example, a round where one team must be eliminated) and where other methods such as extra time and sudden death have failed to determine a winner. It avoids the delays involved in staging a replayed match in order to produce a result. A common complaint about penalty shootouts is that they only determine the better team in the one, rather narrow, discipline of taking penalty shots, rather than fairly determining the better team in overall play.