Rumors are that Wenger’s offsides rule will go into effect in the next year. The rule is basically that the offsides line will now be dependent on the last body part being in line with a defender rather than the first body part being past the defender. I personally think this will result in teams parking the bus so that they limit the speed aspect of the forwards. It will be so much more difficult to pull and offsides trap with this rule set. I also think VAR will butcher this for the next few seasons.

So anyways, what rule would you implement or remove if you had the options to? I have two:

Throws-ins: don’t require one foot to be on the ground or the ball to go cleanly behind the head. Two hands on the ball and throw it in, however. you want, that’s it. Granny style? Go for it.

PK’s: Have the players line up ten yards behind the 18 and once the whistle is blown they can go after the ball. This would illuminate the weird runs up to the ball or the final jump kick, which is almost a cheat code against goalies. I’m a united fan so this would of course impact Bruno but I think think it makes sense. The attacker still has the advantage being that it’s a PK but also adds a bit of extra pressure. Shootouts would be so much more involved.

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What rule changes can you think of?

  • Jelly4Michelin@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Should be a straightforward one that I think is absurd that it isn’t implemented. Current penalty shoot-out format gives a MASSIVE advantage to the team that kicks first. Historically, across many hundreds of shoot-outs the team that kicks first wins 60% of the time and the team that kicks second only wins 40% of the time. This is a huge discrepancy for deciding tournament champions based on a literal coin flip.

    In a penalty shoot-out, instead of alternating each kick, after the first kick each team should take two in a row similar to serving a tiebreak in tennis.

    So instead of: ABABABAB

    You use: ABBAABBAAB

    This would be a much fairer format. Both teams have the situation where you need to score to stay alive. These are higher pressure spots that lead to lower conversion rates, which currently team B solely has to face.