Allright. The stage is set for a Hero role for Noppert.... We have some bad memories with pks. But I believe. Lets go Orange....
how can soccer not find a better way to decide games than penalty kicks? it would be like deciding an american football game with field goals
What a great pair of games today. High drama to take it to PKs. Argentina deserved the win, but Netherlands played great when they were desperate. I wouldn't mind Messi getting his World Cup.
There's overtime and then pk. It's a lot of time to b on the field, any longer folks will b dropping down like flies
Glad to still have a team from the americas in. tough pill to swallow for the dutch but it be like that sometimes
What would be your idea? Can't just keep playing. I hate it when people say crap like this. "It would be like blah blah blah." No it wouldn't. The sports are so impossibly different in how you score. You can win an American football game by not even scoring a touchdown. Even in basketball, there's different point values based on where you take the shot. Baseball doesn't have the physical fitness requirements and they can play on forever. There are no other means in proper football. You have to score a goal. At some point, you have to stop playing and decide it somehow. The old MLS/American style is something that's been brought up but I can't imagine it will ever happen in world football. Spot kicks are the way to go.
I agree with this, but shootouts should be exceptionally rare instead of 40% of matches. Find ways to make that happen.
i'm not sure tbh if anything it makes mistakes that much more costly and makes teams take a more defensive/careful approach there is just no way around pks other than having 10 subs and putting in a fresh team in which is not realistic
Apperanlty there is some real bad blood between van gaal and messi/argentina allegedly thats messi essentially saying "what are you looking at stupid" to van gaal or davids
