They required at least four super heroic saves from the constant Brazilian presence in their box. Their "attack" consisted of milling about the midfield then throwing in hopeful crosses.
In a typical 3 pt contest, you also take 25 shots as opposed to 1. So it's less of a small sample. This is deciding a match off a tiny sample of a specialty skill. You could probably pull a 50-year old Cuauhtemoc out of the stands to beat the keeper more times than prime Messi. But an actual game, a team of prime Messis vs. 50-yr old Cuauhtemoc's would win by 30. So it's not a reflection of much when it comes to which team is better.
I agree for the most part, just saying how a 3pt contest vs shootout isn't really apples to oranges comparison. I've been in many shootouts like many on here. It definitely feels unjust, even if you feel you're the better team.
There are unlimited possible options - we could add an additional ball on the field every five minutes after 120', or replace each team's keeper with a field player, or something. The question is whether they'd be better than the current system, and that requires experimentation. So, they should experiment - there's no shortage of tournaments to try new things in.
The main approach would be more extra time with more subs. Given them 10 subs, and let their respective benches sort it out. That wouldn't mean anyone necessarily playing the whole game. But that doesn't work for TV. It is what it is.
I really like the idea of removing a player every five minutes. Of course it's revolutionary and seen as such a major change in things, but so were foreign concepts like substitutes.
Its exceptionally depressing. The entertainment value of the WC Final just dropped by a good 75%. Your Final (in terms of entertainment) is now likely this weekend in England vs France. It absolutely sucks. Eventually you do need the great teams to advance or the entertainment of value of the cup suffers for it (oddly didnt happen last time, that was a fun final). Really depressed. This totally sucks. Now one side of the bracket is a middling Dutch side, an underwhelming Argentina, and a crap Croatia who now have only beaten Canada in regulation. Seriously. Croatia's now advanced to the semifinals of the WC and the only team they've actually beaten is Canada.
Shrug. Yugoslavia and then Croatia have a long history of advancing deep in the World Cup. They know what to do from a practical point of view. None of this should really surprise anybody. Some generations they have great attacking players, and this one they don't. They do what's necessary. I think the World already knows that Luka Modric might be the 3rd best player of this generation. That guy's accomplishments are insane.
just watch: we're going to get Morocco v Croatia final, the first world cup final in history with 0 shots in 120 minutes.
Yep, the SF is going to be absolute horse ----. Only interest is in one side of the bracket. Man Brazil, good lord, how the hell did they lose this?
They pummeled Croatia for 120 minutes and got stymied by an extremely lucky goal keeper saving shots he had no idea where they were.
The player removal thing has a lot of potential, I think. The old MLS shootouts were also underrated. I also don't hate the idea of doing a shootout or mini-shootout BEFORE extra time, and awarding a half-goal to the winner, making the extra time one team desperately searching for a goal that's a winner if they get it. It's a little chintzy but would be dramatic and end the game with real soccer.
There isn't an opponent in front of you with the intent of denying your shot in a 3 PT contest. You don't have to change up your stroke in a 3 PT contest like you may well want to consider in a PK.. Good luck with your PK if you don't add some disguise in your run up, hips, etc. Add in that thd GK can just get lucky with their guess, it isn't anything like a 3 PT contest.
The way that major rule changes normally take place is that IFAB normally "recommends" them in youth competitions / grassroots leagues (like the semi-pro or amateur leagues in the FA pyramid) before reporting on the results to FIFA who then tries them out in bigger youth / Women's competitions. Obviously other leagues / federations can mandate those changes without FIFA's permissions (example: the spray that refs use to mark deadballs / where the wall can go during FKs was first used in MLS and then CONMEBOL leagues before FIFA adopted it). I wonder if FIFA has data that makes them think that audiences like watching penalty shoot-outs... it is kinda of a signature of international soccer competitions. Personally, I hate them. I think penalties are a good form of punishment for infractions committed by defenders in the box during the run of play, but they're a terrible way to decide who continues in a tournament when the score is even after 120'.
Happens when you can't transition. There's a higher chance your punches will simply land on shoulders and arms. Croatia also had a gilt-edge chance in regular time.
Croatia and Belgium had talent. The question is did either team get old. The latter seemed to; the former looks fine.
Have you caught Argentina's games? They were far, far, far better in the Copa in '21. They've been garbage in this tournament. They were in a cake group with 3 sides that sucked, and then got the worst team to make the knockouts in the round of 16 and that was actually a game. Seriously, 2-1, and Australia wasn't really scared. Saudi's beat them, THE SAUDI'S, granted it was against the run of play, and xG says that game is more likely like 3.5-0 for Argentina but still, a great Argenting, heck an above average one, bad luck or not, still escorts the Saudi's back to their locker room w/a 2 or 3 goal loss. They gave up 2, TWO, to them. Crazy. That Copa America Argentina won 5, drew 2, lost zero, and outscored their opponents 12-3. These guys struggled with Mexico, Poland and Australia, and lost to the Saudi's. The most depressing part of all of this? We haven't had a side of the bracket this friendly to our chances since 2002 and 2010. Good Lord man, all we had to do to make a final was advance past Netherlands, beat an underperforming Argentina, and then beat a crap Croatia side that other than against Canada, hasn't been able to score in regulation against anybody. We literally had it all in our hands, and fumbled it away by driving our Central Midfield into the ground and running what was it, 38 more miles collectively in the group stage than the Netherlands did. We could have legit made a run at this cup. This side of the bracket is WIDE open, but like 2010 where we had to chase the game from behind in every single game (even Algeria since we had to win) by the time we made the wide open bracket, we were too tired to put Ghana away. Same thing happened here.