terms related to football match: spot kick, penalty kick, shoot-out?
hey I came across these sentences in Time's weekly:-
In the run-up to a World Cup, every English football fan has the same fear: please don’t let an England game go to a penalty shoot-out. That’s because the English have the worst record in shoot-outs—a series of spot kicks in front of goal that takes place when .........
Choose to kick first.
The only “lottery” element of the shoot-out is the coin toss to determine which team chooses to kick first. The team kicking first is 60% more likely to win the shoot-out, in part because the conversion rates for penalties “to stay in the shoot-out” drops to 62% in major tournaments, while the rate “to win the shoot-out” rises to 92%. In other words, if a player is thinking that he’s about to become a hero, he’s more likely to be that hero.
Q1: are the same: penalty shoot-out, shoot-out, spot kick?
Q2: what does conversion rate mean here and to "stay" in the shoot-out? thanks