You don't have to do it for every call. Measurement calls would be easy to do with sensors. Tennis for a long time just had a sensor on the net to detect 'lets'. They still used line judges though for out/in calls. Football could easily implement technology for first down, goal line and out of bounds calls.
***Official 2022 World Cup Thread***
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Wow, South Korea scores in extra time to beat Portugal and will advance out of the group due to a tie-breaker over Uruguay.
Wasn’t the tie breaker by South Korea won by having more total goals? The next tie breaker would have been yellow cards.
Edit: nevermind, see what you mean. Honestly was surprised Suarez was subbed later on.
OK. We need this group from the studio show more than every 4 years. They're so much better than anything we get for CFB.
Pulisic cleared to play for US vs. Netherlands
Christian Pulisic has been cleared to play in the USMNT's World Cup round-of-16 match against the Netherlands on Saturday, US Soccer confirmed.
Pulisic is a go, Sargent is questionable, and some quotes about Reyna. Hopefully Sargent can go too, I think he's given them the best minutes up top.
How often is it no teams get 9 points in group stage? Only 3 got 7. Seems less than usual but maybe just my perception.
There were several teams that coasted in their final game sitting on 6 points. If Brazil wanted 9 points, they would have gotten 9 points.
Fortunately, when Brazil and France coasted it did not impact the group outcome. I did not watch the Portugal match but even if they played it safer vs. coasting their loss did impact the group outcome.
If somehow when they go to 48 if they figure out a way to seed based upon group outcome that keeps teams playing their best throughout group play.
I mean anyone with an iota of athletic ability plays football. Anyone identified as a talent is promptly thrust into an academy where football is first and they can learn to read from 4-5 in the afternoon. It’s a little different overseas.
Interesting stat from the group play: only one team didn't give up a "regular" goal - the United States, whose lone goal they gave up was on a PK - and if they hadn't played stupid at the end of the Wales game wouldn't have given that up, either.
The offense and tactics (passivity) have been much criticized, and rightfully so, but we've been playing incredibly good defense and goaltending in this WC so far.
The offense and tactics (passivity) have been much criticized, and rightfully so, but we've been playing incredibly good defense and goaltending in this WC so far.
