World Cup: 2022 FIFA World Cup

[Power Man]

What happened to Irianian football, a few years ago they had a promising U20 squad

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Iran look like they'd be hopeless vs MLS opposition, never mind a World Cup.

Aren’t they far and away the class of Asian qualifying too? Haven’t looked at the qualifiers, but it’s like a different sport.

 

[Very Stable Genius]

+10 mins. LOL just end it and put Iran out of its misery.

 

[Panteras]

Aren’t they far and away the class of Asian qualifying too? Haven’t looked at the qualifiers, but it’s like a different sport.

Could be that the current events has affected the team’s mentality and morale over all. I dunno. Just throwing a theory out there. Who knows what’s on their mind and with their families back home.

 

[LOGiK]

I'm just starting the Italy match.... I'm lost... how is it 4 degree's (c or f) in qatar in an open stadium? I check the weather maps and the entire country is 70-80f

wat am I missing?

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Aren’t they far and away the class of Asian qualifying too? Haven’t looked at the qualifiers, but it’s like a different sport.

I don't know if I'd say that necessarily. I think they were about on par with the other teams that qualified in Asia.

This does have echoes of Germany - Saudi Arabia 2002.

 

[Panteras]

Italy match huh

 

[cgf]

I'm just starting the Italy match.... I'm lost... how is it 4 degree's (c or f) in qatar in an open stadium? I check the weather maps and the entire country is 70-80f

wat am I missing?

...italy isn't in qatar...

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

The only Italy game on right now is a U20 friendly.

 

[LOGiK]

...italy isn't in qatar...

SON OF A..........

lol... just woke up and see 'friendlies'..
unreal =P

Thanking you!

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

How on earth did we end up with 10 minutes of added time for the 2nd half? I don't recall any major disruptions. FIFA are such jokesters with this shit.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Giving a penalty for that has to be some kind of consolation gesture for Iran. Otherwise that's a total joke.

 

[cgf]

How on earth did we end up with 10 minutes of added time for the 2nd half? I don't recall any major disruptions. FIFA are such jokesters with this shit.

The american commentators mentioned that FIFA told the refs to give a ton of stoppage time at this tourney. They're apparently very worried about only having 45-50 minutes of action with the extra subs and players showing up banged up.

 

[Incubajerks]

How on earth did we end up with 10 minutes of added time for the 2nd half? I don't recall any major disruptions. FIFA are such jokesters with this shit.

You didn't see the game then, because a player from Iran, the goalkeeper, was injured for 10 minutes before being substituted.

 

[cgf]

You didn't see the game then, because a player from Iran, the goalkeeper, was injured for 10 minutes before being substituted.

Wouldn't that have been added on at the end of the first half, rather than the second?

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Wouldn't that have been added on at the end of the first half, rather than the second?

It was. There were 14 minutes of added time in the 1st half. There was close to a full match plus ET in this game in spite of there not much going on other than that one injury treatment pause.

 

[cgf]

It was. There were 14 minutes of added time in the 1st half. There was close to a full match plus ET in this game in spite of there not much going on other than that one injury treatment pause.

There were 8 goals and even more subs

 

[QuietContrarian]

It's dumb. A yellow card isn't that big of a deal for someone like Kane and him getting a yellow card for it would be the story of the tournament. Just change who wears the armband each match so you don't have to deal with suspensions.

Agreed!

 

[Incubajerks]

Wouldn't that have been added on at the end of the first half, rather than the second?

14 in the first half and 10 in the second. The injury in the first and Var in the second.

 

[QuietContrarian]

There were 8 goals and even more subs

Still, 24 mins of added time in all is too much imo.

 

[cgf]

Still, 24 mins of added time in all is too much imo.

Eh. Most games should have at least 15min of stoppage time if stoppage time was accurately assessed. So with a 10min injury break that doesn't seem outrageous to me

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

There were 8 goals and even more subs

The rule of thumb has always been 30 seconds for a goal and a sub. There were 7 subs and 5 goals in the 2nd half (and the 5th one was scored when they were in like the 10th minute of added time so it obviously didn't go into the calculation). If my math isn't off there should have been 5 minutes 30 seconds of added time in the 2nd half.

 

[Incubajerks]

The rule of thumb has always been 30 seconds for a goal and a sub. There were 7 subs and 5 goals in the 2nd half (and the 5th one was scored when they were in like the 10th minute of added time so it obviously didn't go into the calculation). If my math isn't off there should have been 5 minutes 30 seconds of added time in the 2nd half.

And the Var on the penalty kick!

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

And the Var on the penalty kick!

That took place 10 minutes or more into added time. Even if none of that had happened, we'd have had 10 minutes of added time in spite of the fact that other than a few goals not much happened. It's even silly to add 30 seconds for each of England's 5 subs since they all occurred at the same time, and didn't take much time off the clock at all.

One of football's charms is that games take 90 minutes and aren't the kind of monstrosities that North American sports games have become due to TV commercials. FIFA's approach to added time in this tournament is likely going to be one of the biggest stories of the whole tournament, because we know it will happen in a K.O. match as well, and whoever is on the losing end of a goal scored in like the 100th minute will be absolutely furious. If that's England, oh boy, will there be recriminations.

 

[member 305909]

It is true that the group-stage of the euros is much better quality football than the group-stage of the world cup.