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Lafiel on 10 July 2014
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vivster said:
Lafiel said:
Dark_Lord_2008 said:

Penalty shoot outs are best and fairest way to decide winner and loser from drawn match. Penalty shoot out should be used to decide drawn matches, shoot out adds to the drama and excitement of the match.

in a league/group set up it's unfair to the teams that actually manage to win within the 90 minutes to have a pen shoot out to decide drawn matches

Really?

Do you really think the other teams are jealous that they couldn't play 120 minutes and have an easy penalty shootout instead of ending a game on time without luck deciding over their fate?

Winners of a penalty shootout are as much deserved as any other victorious team.

I very specifically said "in a league/group set up", because it seemed to me that Dark_Lord wanted penalties for normal games, which I think is bad, because in football it's an achivement to win over your opponent in 90 minutes and that should be rewarded - if all games were decided by penalties the game would probably become even more defensive, especially in the lower regions of the table, as you get a pretty much 50% chance to win by just putting all your men in the back.

By the way, officially teams that won penalty shoot outs didn't win the football match, it's a draw.