![]() ![]() Joshua Kimmich broke free on the left, and blasted a strong shot straight at Navas inside post. The ability to trust in your training and rely on the muscle memory you’ve developed over years of competition is key to maintaining confidence as an athlete in high pressure situations.įast forward to the first leg of the semifinals against Bayern Munich in Germany. But elite competitors develop rituals and techniques for letting mistakes go and refocusing on the present. If you are not fully present in the moment, you risk making more mistakes and becoming frustrated.Įven the best athletes make mistakes. When you have a split focus, half of your mental energy on the past, this is no different than giving half the amount of physical effort in a competition. The memory of mistakes creates a split focus where it divides your focus. ![]() If you dwell on the last play, poor routine, error or bad performance and let it to fester in your mind, this leads to more mistakes and a downward spiral. Patrick Cohn from the Sports Psychology Coach blog explains that focusing on mistakes can create a mental split, where a player fixates more on the past than on the present, resulting in a vicious downward spiral: Sports psychologists have long recognized the effect that dwelling on mistakes can have on a player’s performance. With all that pressure, and under all that scrutiny, you could expect Navas’ high profile mistake to have a compounding effect on his performances the rest of the season. Man Utd fans when they see Keylor Navas make a mistake… /UidrPEaeiC Every little mistake that Keylor makes is seen as an invitation for Florentino Perez to go out and purchase David de Gea from Manchester United. With Real Madrid in particular, the banter about the goalkeeper tends to always have an ominous tone. Navas’ big howler in the Champions League quarter-finals was no different. It’s a hard knock life for the goalkeeper. Frequently, goalkeeper mistakes are turned into blooper clips on YouTube and played in endless loops by armchair warriors on football Twitter. When they do make mistakes, those mistakes almost always end in a goal. But if things go wrong, goalkeepers can easily find themselves under the microscope. If things are going right, goalkeepers aren’t supposed to be the focus of the crowd’s attention. For the majority of the 90 minutes, they are expected to sit back and wait. ![]() But for some reason, the moment got the best of him, and Navas lost control of the ball, allowing it to slip away into the feet of Blaise Matuidi, who tapped away an easy goal.įor goalkeepers, that kind of high profile mistake can derail an entire career. This should have been a totally routine catch for Keylor Navas. Matuidi pounces on Keylor Navas' mistake to put Juventus up 3-0 on the night and pull them level at 3 on aggregate! /5lO1U28miKĭouglas Costa found space on the flank and whipped in a cross. ![]()
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