But they aren’t marathon runners so they aren’t going to keep going like they do. They are soccer players and you could see how some of them were physically exhausted even during the final at one point one French player basically kicked the ball out and crashed out of bounds and was subsequently replaced.. I’m sure he wasn’t faking being tired to exit one of the most important games in his career.
I disagree with the correlation between the two things, just like a basketball player is taken out all the time for being tired and no one is going to say oh marathoners run much longer than he does and with more intensity.
Each game has its own niche and since you mentioned that you are a soccer player ( at least I think you did, sorry if I misread it or misremember ) you know that not many people in the world play at the level these guys play at (probably less than the percent of people that play golf at a professional level anyway)
When you say continue playing, well, is it really going to be fair when they aren’t at their very best after 120 minutes? As mentioned before the golden goal was tested and it sucked, so it was sidelined, plus the idea of taking a player out every what ever in my opinion is a non starter and at that point stops being soccer. Same way 3 v 3 Basket Ball isn’t “Basket Ball”.
PKs have been and most likely will continue being the way to break a tie after exhausting the alternative, although I may be all for adding another 5 minutes to each additional half but probably wouldn’t want to go further than that.
However, everyone is free to have their opinion and I choose PKs 🙂
oh and I disagree that it’s luck.. Average is a little over 72% conversion I think but I have a hard time believing that any normal guys like us could convert anything near it against these level of goalies. Someone better be able to hit it hard and accurate.
You would have a better argument if the conversion was 50 / 50 no? Discounting what they do imo is a bit unfair.