A game shall be won by the team scoring the greater number of goals. If no goals have been scored, or the scores are equal at the end of the game, the game shall be drawn. The problem was that that didn't specify what would happen in games that needed a definitive result.
In some instances, such as the European Championship semi-final, a random method like tossing a coin or drawing lots was used.
This was obviously seen as unfair by the losing team, which is why extra-time became the more standardised deciding method. Despite extra-time having been written into the Laws Of The Game in , it took until for it to be accepted worldwide as the norm.
It was a necessary decision, given a match between Doncaster Rovers and Stockport County in Match lasted for 3 hours and 23 minutes , which remains the record length of time for a game. The simple truth is that it's never really been explained why 30 minutes was decided upon as a suitable amount of extra-time. It's likely that it was just felt to be 'right' by the authorities, remaining shorter than a full-half of football but long enough for a likely result to be found.
Half-time had already been settled on as 15 minutes, so the number was already in the game. The rule states that extra-time can have a 1 minute break between both halves, but that it will only be long enough for players to get a drink and change ends. Footballing authorities have long wanted the game to be as neatly encapsulated as possible, meaning that one and a half hours of play plus another half hour will likely have just felt 'neat'. The notion of having a half-time at all dates back to the early days of the game.
One of the suspected reasons for its introduction was to allow two teams from different Associations to play against each other and use one set of rules for the first-half and a different set of rules for the second period of play.
One such example was when Eton and Rugby school played each other. It's likely that the duration of this half-time period as being 15 minutes stems from those early games between Eton and Rugby.
FootballStuff Twitter. Connor Fleming April 28, Why is there halftime in soccer? We reveal all. Alexis Sanchez Goal vs Manchester United. Connor Fleming fleming the Trending On The By David Moore. A much shorter break from play happens between extra time periods that last around one minute. In the World Cup, halftime lasts as long as 15 minutes in the Group Stage. In the Knockout Stages of the World Cup, there are additional breaks from play in between periods of extra time that last five minutes each.
Previous Next. In this way, a team losing at halftime might hope to draw, or better still, win the match. If they are only one goal behind at halftime, that task is somewhat easier than if they were more goals down. In the history of soccer , there have been some incredible turnarounds between the first and second halves.
To make matters worse they were down to 10 men, having had a player sent off. They fought back to win the game and proceeded to the next round. Newcastle were down at halftime to Arsenal in a Premier League match in and given little hope by anyone. Even more so when was still the score with 19 minutes left for play.
An amazing four goals in those remaining minutes saw Newcastle level the game at The most famous second-half turnaround came in the European Champions League final of Trailing at halftime, Liverpool looked dead and buried to a dominant AC Milan side, and in fact, they were lucky it was not 4 or 5.
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