Proposals for a significant change in the law’s laws have been rejected by an important decision by football’s European governing bodies. UEFA has explored changes to the rash by Champions League and Europa League Given to facilitate the burden for players during the second half of the overloaded football season.
With large tournaments that now fill the calendar most summers, The best players are encouraged to perform in high -intensity matches without much time to restore And recover between seasons, increasing calls for the sport’s legislators to take action because of the player’s welfare.
According to reporting from Martyn Ziegler from The timesUEFA’s club competition committee discussed but ultimately “excluded” a possible cure that would have put a new twist on knock-out football and probably affected other governing bodies to follow.
The Committee chose not to recommend the abolition of extra time In UEFA club competitions, which currently act as a TEE-Breaker in the form of 30 additional minutes if the team is at the end of the second part of a knock-out tie.
“There would have been some pressure to scrape extra time To reduce the burden of players in an already overloaded fixed calendar, ” Reports Ziegler. “There is also an argument that it gives a Unfair advantage for the team playing at home in the second stage.“
Away target rule was abolished in 2021
UEFA moved to better balance two -legged bands 2021, when it called time on the distance rule. Since then, “37 Champions League matches have gone to extra time, with 15 of these ending in a penalty pot. In the Europa League and Conference League just over half of the bands that have gone to extra time have ended on penalties.”
Fear of negative football
Ziegler reports that fear of negative football from unclear teams aimed at the more balanced tie-breaks of a penalty shooter supported the Uefa Committee’s decision.
It felt that too “It’s better to Try to achieve a result by playing extra time instead of going directly to the penalties of the penalties.“ Extra time is often criticized as a tie-breaker and avoids increasingly at low levels in the game in favor of pulling cup bands that go directly to penalties.
