There has been plenty of time added at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar; would you like to see the same in Serie A?
There have been 64 minutes of added time in the opening four games in Qatar, a scenario that took many by surprise, although former Italian referee Pierluigi Collina, now chairman of the FIFA referees committee, had announced it in an interview last week.
“If you want more active time, we need to be ready to see this kind of additional time given. Think of a match with three goals scored. A celebration normally takes one, one and a half minutes, so with three goals scored, you lose five or six minutes,” he said.
“What we want to do is accurately calculate the added time at the end of each half. It can be the fourth official to do that, we were successful in Russia and we expect the same in Qatar.”
It’s been one of the biggest football-related talking points at the World Cup and is expected to cause even more controversy when big games are played later in the competition.
It remains to be seen if the amount of added time calculated at the World Cup and the new FIFA guidelines will impact domestic and European competitions, including Serie A and Champions League.
Would you like to see more of the same in Italy when the season resumes in January? Vote in the poll and let us know in the comments section.
Football needs a hockey-style stop clock and to reduce the length of each half. It would eliminate time wasting completely and be the only accurate solution, which eliminates the discussion on stoppage time entirely. It’s a histotical remnant and most teams sports have evolved past it ages ago.
ABSOLUTELY.
This will either force teams to abandon shameless time wasting shenanigans or I can see some matches in Serie A having more than 20 minutes of extra time, and rightly so.
No, it’s not viable that matches would last longer than 2 hours. It would run into the next matches. There is NO way broadcasters would ever agree to that
Deffinetly yes, I like that we not lose any playing time, its fair.
Both last season and this season, it has become customary for goal kicks vs Milan to take 30 seconds, thrown ins 15 seconds plus, free kicks taking 1-2 minutes to take and players falling over to waste time. Go back and watch Milan vs Udinese last season – infamous game of the udogie handball goal. They literally wasted the entire second half.
I haven’t and won’t watch a second of the world cup, but I hope this rule is introduced in serie a.
Definitely
Absolutey. It’s more fair play.
Milan get more than enough extra-time added on when theyre not winning so no, we dont need even more…
I think it’s a great way to cut out time wasting or ” game management” as they say. You see it at youth levels now. Not right!
@Inter… are you suggesting that Milan are the only team to see extra time added? Really?