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penalty kick
A kick awarded in soccer for a foul committed inside the penalty area, taken from the penalty spot with only the goalkeeper defending.
PK is the standard abbreviation for penalty kick (ペナルティキック) in Japanese soccer vocabulary.
Common collocations
- PKを決める: to score a penalty kick
- PKを外す: to miss a penalty kick
- PKを止める: to save a penalty kick
- PKを与える: to concede a penalty kick
- PK戦: penalty shootout
- PK合戦: penalty shootout (informal)
Japanese soccer context
PK戦 is used to decide knockout matches when the score is tied after extra time. Each team takes five kicks alternately, with sudden death if still tied.