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"Deciding a football match by penalty shootout is akin to deciding the Master's Golf tournament by a round of mini golf"
"A penatly shootout is comparable to a pubic flogging in the market square".
I'm not one of those types of people who want to see changes for the sake of change, but I think we can all agree that while penalty shootouts are great "drama" they are not really a fair way of deciding a football match. Even more so it's heartbreaking for the players that happen to miss, a lot of the times for the only reason that the keeper has guessed the right way. There a several instances of this causing players significant mental health issues later in life.
I didn't come down in the last shower either. I've been and avid follower of the WC since the seventies. If fact penalty shootouts were only introduced in 1982 were the first one robbed a great France side of participating in the World Cup final.
A better way to decide a match would be, IMHO, if the match is still drawn after extra time the team that have scored the most goals in the tournament progress.
Sure we may see one team "park the bus" so to speak. But it's better than both teams being risk adverse like we have seen time and time again. In fact they only time extra time becomes really entertaining is when one team scores first early on and they other team has to play catch up.
Going on goals scored would also see teams be more attacking minded early on in the competition (although it's not really been an issue in this world cup).
If the amount of goals scored is equalled in can then go on who got the most points in the group stage, goal difference etc.
Any other ideas?
"A penatly shootout is comparable to a pubic flogging in the market square".
I'm not one of those types of people who want to see changes for the sake of change, but I think we can all agree that while penalty shootouts are great "drama" they are not really a fair way of deciding a football match. Even more so it's heartbreaking for the players that happen to miss, a lot of the times for the only reason that the keeper has guessed the right way. There a several instances of this causing players significant mental health issues later in life.
I didn't come down in the last shower either. I've been and avid follower of the WC since the seventies. If fact penalty shootouts were only introduced in 1982 were the first one robbed a great France side of participating in the World Cup final.
A better way to decide a match would be, IMHO, if the match is still drawn after extra time the team that have scored the most goals in the tournament progress.
Sure we may see one team "park the bus" so to speak. But it's better than both teams being risk adverse like we have seen time and time again. In fact they only time extra time becomes really entertaining is when one team scores first early on and they other team has to play catch up.
Going on goals scored would also see teams be more attacking minded early on in the competition (although it's not really been an issue in this world cup).
If the amount of goals scored is equalled in can then go on who got the most points in the group stage, goal difference etc.
Any other ideas?
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