It is difficult to find reasons and votes for extra time after the 90th minute equalizer. It is needed? Who benefits?
By Juan Manuel Lopez
Excuse my ignorance, but doubts arise by themselves. In times when matches are played almost every day of the week, Are extensions necessary in football? In times when there is an accumulation of tournaments (there was almost no space between the club competitions and the World Cup), What’s the point of accumulating more minutes in games? In times when football player injuries are more common, Should tension-filled encounters be stretched?
The simplest question is the following: What are extensions for? Today, there are almost no voices defending this part of the regulation. Or at least not widely known. If it is a commercial matter, it is not clarified or proven to represent an advantageous sum of capital. There are no sporting reasons. Even the fans are not happy with the move.
This season, for example, Osasuna-Sevilla, from the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey, which ended at almost 1 am (started on Wednesday and ended on Thursday) will be remembered for this extra time. In the World Cup, a competition in which there is usually little rest between matches, the extensions worked together to ruin the protagonists’ legs and consequently ruin part of the show (Modric, in the semi-final against Argentina, came in with just enough).
Perhaps there are enough reasons to keep this extra half hour and we don’t realize why, As we read in The Little Prince, “what is essential is invisible to the eye”. In any case, it would be good if the votes were cast in favour, or even better, if this part of the regulation were called into question.
Source: Goal
Gregory Robert is a sports aficionado and a writer for “Social Bites”. He provides in-depth coverage of the latest sporting events and trends, offering a unique and knowledgeable perspective on the world of sports.