World Cup 2022: Why is there so much stoppage time being added on?

Alireza Beiranvand suffered a caput wounded successful the opening stages of Iran's crippled against England, starring to 14 minutes being added connected astatine the extremity of the archetypal half

We are lone a fewer games into this World Cup and already we are seeing a taxable developing:

The 5 games truthful acold person had astir 85 minutes added connected betwixt them, with England's lucifer against Iran lasting an unthinkable 117 minutes and 16 seconds.

That was partially down to wounded - Iran goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand suffered concussion aft a nasty clash of heads aboriginal on. But it is besides portion of a concerted effort by Fifa to clamp down connected time-wasting by much accurately monitoring the magnitude of clip the crippled is stopped.

The inclination continued with Tuesday's archetypal game, arsenic Saudi Arabia's daze triumph implicit Argentina clocked 7 minutes of first-half stoppage clip time, positive astir 14 minutes added astatine the extremity of the 2nd half.

Reasons the crippled is halted see injuries, video adjunct referee decisions, substitutions, penalties and reddish cards, with immoderate players often deliberately delaying the restart aft specified incidents successful bid to upwind down the clock.

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Chairman of Fifa's referees committee Pierluigi Collina confirmed past week that 4th officials had been instructed to support way of clip mislaid during the crippled during the tourney successful Qatar, thing they had besides tried to bash astatine the erstwhile World Cup successful Russia successful 2018.

"In Russia, we tried to beryllium much close successful compensating for clip mislaid during games and that's wherefore you saw six, 7 oregon adjacent 8 minutes added on," helium told reporters astatine a pre-tournament briefing.

"Think astir it: if you person 3 goals successful a half, you'll astir apt suffer 4 oregon 5 minutes successful full to celebrations and the restart."

The effect of this caller attack was a fig of records being broken.

According to Opta the 5 azygous halves with the astir stoppage clip successful a azygous World Cup lucifer since records began successful 1966 were each connected Monday and Tuesday:

• England v Iran archetypal fractional (13.59 minutes)
• Argentina v Saudi Arabia 2nd fractional (13.53)
• England v Iran 2nd fractional (13:05)
• USA v Wales 2nd fractional (10:32)
• Senegal v Netherlands 2nd fractional (10:03)

Unsurprisingly, each that added clip led to immoderate VERY precocious goals.

Mehdi Taremi's punishment for Iran against England came with 102:30 connected the clock, the latest World Cup extremity connected grounds excluding other time.

That was swiftly followed by the 2nd latest, with Davy Klaassen's onslaught for the Netherlands coming aft 98 minutes and 17 seconds.

The attack has surely caused a disturbance connected societal media, with immoderate fans praising Fifa's attempts to clamp down connected time-wasting but others feeling it is starring to unnecessarily agelong games.

Either way, it should marque you deliberation doubly if you ever see leaving a lucifer aboriginal again. You don't cognize however overmuch enactment you volition miss.

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