Should MLS bring its Goals Per Match in line with the NHL?

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Why not Basketball?

When the SPL makes the net bigger then maybe we should consider it.

For the time being I don't mind how the sport and league are growing.

 

Hell why not just make the goals bigger and play with a smaller ball. C'mon dude, really?

 

I think this is not a crazy idea, I have already though about it several times, and I think it would make the game much more exiting

Is that actually true?

 

yellow card: 2 minutes in the box

 

I would go with 5 minutes, that would be awesome hahaha

 

Goal keepers with out arms! That will bring the scoring up!

 

In all honesty mate, I think the debate about goals = excitement in soccer are long gone. The game does not need goals to be exciting and tense. One goal games are often the best. It's a true commitment to attacking soccer that makes games exciting. If you can get more goals then great but 5-0 does not an entertaining game make.

I was at the Leafs Buffalo game last night and it was entertaining enough cause the game was close. Not because it was 4-3. Close hockey games, cause of the ability to remove the goalie in the dying seconds, makes for good drama. I've been to Hockey games that are 5 or 6 to nothing that are boring as hell.

i think the scoring debate is long gone. Bunkering is another topic.

 

One of the reasons I like soccer is the low-scoring aspect of it. Basketball is really boring. All they do is run from basket to basket making shots. I watched a basketball game recently and the baskets weren't at all exciting to see happen. Maybe how they were delivered, but the point of soccer is the excitement of actually getting a ball in the net.

The game would be more exciting if the play in between the goals scored was interesting and exciting, and that depends on the team. Watch an RSL game. It was just as fun to watch RSL playing LA in the midfield as it was for them to score.

 

And let the players use their hands!

 

Yeah, but whats more exiting a 1-0 close game or a 5-4 close game with teams answering the other teams goals?

And also, a 1-0 is not always exiting, and a 5-0 hockey game is probably less boring that a 0-0 draw with poor playing

 

NHL levels, no. 5.5 gpg would be way too high. It would take away from the passion of soccer by making goals too common. Remember, if 5.5 was the average, there'd be a number of 6-3 type games to make up for the 2-1s. And a 6-3 soccer game would kinda suck if they happened twice a month in a league instead of twice a season.

But for the rest of you clowns...soccer became the world's game almost a century ago when scoring was much higher than it is today. The level of scoring you think is normal is NOT, it's low by historical standards. I would prefer it if soccer went from, say, 2.5 gpg to 3.25-3.5 gpg. I'll bet you could do it just by getting rid of defensive refereeing. (That's refereeing that's biased toward the defense. Think about it...for every false negative offside call you see, you see, what, 3 or 4 false negatives? Getting those two numbers in line would boost scoring by a goal every 3 or 4 games. Then have referees less reluctant to give 2nd yellows and less reluctant to give PKs, and in my view you'd easily be over 3 gpg.)

 

Clue you in?
OK, Riddle me this batman;
If soccer is boring because it is low scoring and that has an impact on how popular it is, how is it that it is the most popular sport in the World?
Why was the last World cup watched by record numbers of Americans?
Most of all why was Donovan's last gasp goal so celebrated when it was the only goal after 90 minutes of scoreless play?

 

Adding another goal per game isn't going to increase the perceived "entertainment value" of soccer.

And to get the goals per game up to NHL levels, you'd have to do some potentially substantial tweaking of the rules. MLS already tried that, and received a less than enthusiastic response from fans.

 

You don't think there are other sports "soccer" has to compete with around the world? Granted "soccer" is the NFL of the sporting world but cricket, f1, rugby, basketball, hockey ect...have a share in the world market as well.

 

How do you do that?

I don't know about you, but MLS is a VERY entertaining league to me... one thing is to watch Manchester vs arsenal in EPL, but Wigan - Birmingham is another thing. I do find the average MLS more enjoyable than some games from more established leagues.

 

You're missing the point completely - the entertainment value and excitement in soccer is not built around how many goals are scored, it is built around how difficult it is to score a goal.
Ever heard the phrase, "Less is more"?

You either get it or you don't and if you don't then soccer is not the sport for you. Find a high scoring game that is more to your tastes.

 

If you like high goal scoring, watch indoor soccer.