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Originally Posted by thehef
The shootout is definitely exciting, but IMO it's a terrible way to decide a game after players have gone 120+ minutes actually playing soccer. Shootouts are mostly luck. I mean, goalies and the shooters are definitely skilled, but it's merely a guessing game, combined with both the shooter and goalie hoping they don't screw up. But it's not really soccer.
My solution? I'm sure I'll skewered for this, but I'd like to see the following, using Italy/England as the example:
a) 30 minutes of OT, as per current rules
b) Italy gets five minutes to play with an 11-on-7 advantage
c) England gets five minutes to play with an 11-on-7 advantage
d) Italy gets another five minutes to play with an 11-on-7 advantage
e) England gets another five minutes to play with an 11-on-7 advantage
f) If still tied, each team gets 1 five-minute segment to play with an 11-on-5 advantage
g) If still tied, go to a shootout that is - rather than PK's - 3 offensive players vs 2 defenders and the goalkeeper...
Or maybe just skip b thru f, and go straight from a to go. Regardless, at least the game would be decided by actual soccer, rather the luck of a guessing game, where the only activity (PK's) is something that is a very small part - if one at all - of an actual game.
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I'm figuring you have a coin toss to decide that Italy go first, if so your deciding the game on the toss of a coin.
Italy passes the ball around runs the England players into the ground for there 5 minutes or you have the scenario of England putting 7 players behind the ball. When I played we even trained with 5 defenders against 8 attackers, bit like your idea, we used to stack the penalty box with a goalkeeper and 5 defenders trust me not easy to score.
Penalties aren't a great way but it's probably the best, as was stated 10 v 10 was mentioned years ago, I'd go 10 v 10 10 minutes, then go 9 v 9 with you being able to make a substitution in each 10 minutes. If no decision after 7 v 7 then penalties.