People love the World Cup in Qatar, but what baffles them a little is the long duration of the matches. Don’t you believe us? Let’s remember the England-Iran match. It lasted up to 117 minutes.
According to Opta football statistics, since 1966, the longest injury time recorded occurred on the second day of the tournament.
4 – The four halves with the longest recorded stoppage time (since 1966) in a single #World Cup All the games were today:#ENGIRN 1st half (14:08)#ENGIRN 2nd half (13:08)#USAWAL 2nd half (10:34)#SENNED 2nd half (10:03)
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November 21, 2022
By the time the tournament entered the second half, approximately 20 of the initial 25 matches lasted a minimum of 100 minutes.
These long game durations didn’t take so long by chance; The FIFA design makes them last a long time. Because? Well, the reason behind such a long duration of matches is that FIFA wanted to address the issue of lost playing time as a result of multiple breaks. The governing body wanted fans to enjoy it for as long as possible.
If this is the case, why does soccer include the practice of injury time? How is downtime calculated? How effective is the practice? Let’s delve into the answers, one by one.
The need for injury time in football!
Soccer is slightly different from other sports such as hockey and basketball in terms of timing. Football makes us run the clock. The twist is that the clock does not stop even in cases where the sport is interrupted for multiple reasons such as player injuries, substitutions and more.
According to the Laws of the Game conferred by the International Football Association, referees add time to the evaluation or removal of injured athletes, substitutions, disciplinary sanctions, medical stoppages, delays and other causes.
The calculation of injury time is carried out taking into account all delays and interruptions of the game during the half and the fourth referee sets up an electronic board. The electronic scoreboard shows the added time at the end of each half.
Despite this, it is possible for a work to last longer than the extended time added. As? This may happen if the on-field referee considers that there have been additional interruptions during injury time that justify its extension.
According to the law, the referee must not compensate for a timing error during the first half by altering the duration of the second half. However, the second half injury time has traditionally been recorded to be longer compared to the first half.
Where did the concept of page time come from?
It was in 1891 when the match between the English clubs Aston Villa and Stoke City acted as a trigger to welcome injury time into the match.
Does injury time compensate for lost playing time?
Never. In 2017, the IFAB observed that 90-minute football matches last only 60 minutes.
According to Soccermetrics Research, the average effective playing time in the 2018 World Cup in Russia was between 52 and 58 minutes. This duration represented a considerable reduction compared to the range of 60 to 67 minutes of effective playing time at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
An elaborate study emerged after the 2018 World Cup that tracked and categorized every stoppage during the tournament’s opening 32 games.
The study noted that the average injury time added to each game was 6:59, which included both thieves.
Based on the number, duration of interruptions and categories, the average time that should have been added to each game should have been 13:10, he said.
FIFA’s efforts to add more playing time in Qatar
Before the start of the World Cup in Qatar, Pierluigi Collina, president of the FIFA referees committee, stated that additional time of more than 8 or 9 minutes would be considered the norm in this edition.
The man stated that any type of interruption during the play would be compensated in injury time.
this year #FIFA World CupAny type of interruption during the game, whether due to injuries, loss of time or goal celebration, will be compensated in injury time.
The president of the FIFA Referees Commission, Pierluigi Collina, explains more: pic.twitter.com/eHMhhgfkM3
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November 22, 2022
“We advise our referees to be very precise in calculating the time that will be added at the end of each half to compensate for time lost due to a specific type of incident… What we want to avoid is having a game with 42, 43, 44 and 45 minutes of active play. “This is not acceptable,” Collina said.
Not only this, Collina also expressed how teams celebrating goals for a long time can affect the opponent. “So, imagine that in a time there are two or three goals scored (by a team) and it is easy to lose five or six minutes and this team (the rival) must be compensated in the end,” he said.
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Source: sef.edu.vn