Where does this stem from?
At this moment in the Premier League, quite a few matches are decided by an incidental handball, a miniscule offside decision, a lucky screamer from 35 yards, a coincidental drop or a deflection after a moment of chaos in the penalty area.
Why would a penalty shootout, a measure of players' abilities to kick a football and manage their nerves in a high-pressure environment undisturbed by VAR or random incidents, be any more arbitrary or unfair?
Seems to me like a just as reasonable way to decide a football match than a freak incident provoked by fatigue in the 119th minute.
This notion that penalty shootouts are unfair is, I believe, one of the reasons why we're sticking with the nonsense of the away goals rule, which is inherently more unfair. Scrapping the away goals rule would lead to more penalty shootouts, seems to be the argument. I'd say bring them.
What's the CAF consensus?
At this moment in the Premier League, quite a few matches are decided by an incidental handball, a miniscule offside decision, a lucky screamer from 35 yards, a coincidental drop or a deflection after a moment of chaos in the penalty area.
Why would a penalty shootout, a measure of players' abilities to kick a football and manage their nerves in a high-pressure environment undisturbed by VAR or random incidents, be any more arbitrary or unfair?
Seems to me like a just as reasonable way to decide a football match than a freak incident provoked by fatigue in the 119th minute.
This notion that penalty shootouts are unfair is, I believe, one of the reasons why we're sticking with the nonsense of the away goals rule, which is inherently more unfair. Scrapping the away goals rule would lead to more penalty shootouts, seems to be the argument. I'd say bring them.
What's the CAF consensus?