I thought 9 minutes was an awful lot of stoppage time, but then my sister said some match in this tournament had +18.
I read somewhere that when they analyzed the actual time of play in the last World Cup it averaged out at like 58 minutes a game. The long stoppage times are a result of FIFA trying to get actual play times closer to 90 minutes.I thought 9 minutes was an awful lot of stoppage time, but then my sister said some match in this tournament had +18.
I read somewhere that when they analyzed the actual time of play in the last World Cup it averaged out at like 58 minutes a game. The long stoppage times are a result of FIFA trying to get actual play times closer to 90 minutes.
100% goal scorer like Dempsey is exactly what this team needsMost impressed by Tyler Adams and Yunus Musa today. Like what Aaronson brought off the bench as well. If this team had more dependable forward play they would've put this one away much more easily. I commented to my dad before the game that if you could put prime Clint Dempsey on this team they'd be legit.
Still have to find goals and that has been a struggle. Yesterday was a closer call than it should've been simply because we couldn't find that 2nd goal. Iran got close to equalizing a few times. A higher quality opponent in the knockout stage will be more likely to punish us for that.The McKennie, Musah, Adams midfield has been incredible. With our defense this solid, we can go as far as anyone. Us and Brazil are the only 2 teams to not allow an open play goal, and of course Brazil hasn't played their 3rd game yet.
My proposal to solve flopping is to just implement Gaelic football's approach to injuries. Basically you just ignore the injured player and keep going as if nothing happened. If a player actually needs medical attention or a stretcher, you just play around it until there's a valid stop in play lol (i.e goal, out of bounds, rule violation, etc.). Not a perfect solution of course, as there can be genuine fouls, but it'd definitely deter flopping and encourage the fouled player to get right back up!IMO, it's a pretty easy problem to solve. They need to do post-match reviews and assign yellow cards for diving. These yellows would count towards suspensions, etc., just as if they were issued in-game.
The NHL does post-game reviews with fines and public announcements to shame the players for diving. Seems to work pretty well.
I tend to think that basketball has a worse flopping problem than soccer, so I don't believe flopping is why Americans can't get into it. Not that Europeans don't make fun of the floppers too, but imagine someone running 10 laps and then doing a 50 yard sprint. Then have someone push them over at the end of that running...that person just isn't going to pop back up like football wide receivers who play a few dozen plays over 4 hours.My proposal to solve flopping is to just implement Gaelic football's approach to injuries. Basically you just ignore the injured player and keep going as if nothing happened. If a player actually needs medical attention or a stretcher, you just play around it until there's a valid stop in play lol (i.e goal, out of bounds, rule violation, etc.). Not a perfect solution of course, as there can be genuine fouls, but it'd definitely deter flopping and encourage the fouled player to get right back up!
I tend to think that basketball has a worse flopping problem than soccer