The purpose of the current article is to review findings from the visual anticipation literature with a particular focus on penalty kick goalkeeping in Association football. We give a brief introduction to the area of research before providing reviews of two recent studies. First, we focus on the applied implications of a study that examined the effect of deception and non-deception penalty kick strategies on goalkeeping performance. Second, we consider further limiting factors on the accuracy of goalkeeper visual anticipation through examination of the relationship between goalkeeper action capabilities and the timing and accuracy of goalkeeper responses. Finally, the implications of the results are considered with recommendations for coaching practices aimed at improving visual anticipation skills.
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