[Official] World Cup 2022 - Qatar

PK day

 

Allright. The stage is set for a Hero role for Noppert....

We have some bad memories with pks. But I believe. Lets go Orange....

 

Yes. He is terrible. He is partly to blame for the aggression.. these teams do not like each other..

 

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

 

Argentina controlled the game so it is deserved.

Viva Conmebol!

 

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

 

15 yellow cards?

 

True.
I do hope they get crushed by Croatia...

 

Glad to still have a team from the americas in. tough pill to swallow for the dutch but it be like that sometimes

 

Crazy day. Wow.

 

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.

 

The ref was Enrico Colantoni from "Just Shoot me."

 

I think it's another penalty event.

 

pks are a necessity. lets just be glad the golden goal rule is not around anymore

 

I agree with this, but shootouts should be exceptionally rare instead of 40% of matches. Find ways to make that happen.

 

Tomorrow tho

 

Golden goal is better
Forces teams to play to score rather than negative anti football

 

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