Although it's not formally stated in the rules, the common thing refs are told is 6 seconds from when the keeper recovers from the save/stands up to give them an appropriate amount of time. But even then, I'd guess that every game you see one of the keepers hold the ball for 10+ seconds after grabbing it at some point, especially if one team is in time wasting mode.
What I loved the most about the World Cup is that they always gave significant extra time. Like 7+ minutes. Even that is still very low in an average football game.
I don’t like it personally. There’s already way too much football in the calendar in terms of actual scheduled matches, making the games themselves longer to me seems like a recipe for more frequent unnecessary injuries caused by over-wear. Maybe it’s mitigated by five subs, so maybe I’m wrong! But making games functionally 20 minutes longer, to me, rings similar to adding umpteen new competitions such that players are basically never resting.
They did just that in the WC and people went bananas. Honestly thought really showed people will complain regardless.
I think it was to send a message. I bet you if the refs did this constantly a lot of players falling because of cramps won't happen as much. It would essentially fix itself.
Good thing you didn't watch the rest then... I thought only Lallana (who seems done every time I see him) and March (who I really like usually) looked worse. He tried to do a lot, played a lot of balls, but isn't good/strong enough defensively and he lost a lot of balls in attack.
It's not really that, it's just Arsenal's bench being ridiculously weak. I love El Neny, but he can't provide the same level of class that Partey is capable of. Then you take Odegaard off with his ball possession and distribution for Holding who is a bottom-half club CB.
