After watching the Argentina-Colombia match, I'm still not sure how I feel about going straight to PKs after 90 minutes. Straight to PKs has some real benefits. Not worrying about extra time allows the starters to go all out during the 90. Both teams also know that penalties beckon and last night the last 30 minutes were insanely entertaining. No ET also puts extra emphasis on the XI and substitutions. From a spectator's perspective, no ET means 30-40 minutes shaved off from the entire event.
On the other hand, I would've loved 30 more minutes of that game last night. PKs often feel like a cheap and somewhat arbitrary way to resolve draws, so letting the teams go an extra 30 is a fairer way to proceed. Allowing more subs in ET (a good change IMO) on top of 5 possible changes during regulation means that the team might be comprised of a majority of subs by the end.
Even within ET, there's the question of Golden Goal or not. While it makes a lot of intuitive sense to me that a goal in ET should conclude the match, I think it makes the incentive to be defensive too strong, so if I was ranking the options I'd put ET No Golden over ET With Golden.
Complicating things even more, CONMEBOL/COPA America DO allow for ET in the finals. Not sure if it's GG or not. For purposes of this question though, let's assume the question applies to the knockout rounds of a tournament throughout.
What say you denizens of 'Gazza?
On the other hand, I would've loved 30 more minutes of that game last night. PKs often feel like a cheap and somewhat arbitrary way to resolve draws, so letting the teams go an extra 30 is a fairer way to proceed. Allowing more subs in ET (a good change IMO) on top of 5 possible changes during regulation means that the team might be comprised of a majority of subs by the end.
Even within ET, there's the question of Golden Goal or not. While it makes a lot of intuitive sense to me that a goal in ET should conclude the match, I think it makes the incentive to be defensive too strong, so if I was ranking the options I'd put ET No Golden over ET With Golden.
Complicating things even more, CONMEBOL/COPA America DO allow for ET in the finals. Not sure if it's GG or not. For purposes of this question though, let's assume the question applies to the knockout rounds of a tournament throughout.
What say you denizens of 'Gazza?
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