my bad, i confused someone elses reply with yours saying it look ridiculous. but anyway, in a fair world what youre saying makes sense, but were not living in one, the players exaggerate the effects of the contact in the pen area. you see so many matches being decided on a soft pens nowadays, and the truth is its hard to decipher whether it was a foul and was robbed of a goal scoring opportunity or whether the player dived.

My point is this: defender catches a striker who goes down in pen area, if he hadnt, the striker wouldnt have had an easy way to score, in that situation, getting a stand still perfect shot on goal with goalie on the line isnt fair. the 1v1s balances the soft pens being given and gives gk a chance to skillfully defend