The lack of scoring in soccer is frustrating both for fans and players; yet, it results in games of great tension. Allowing more scoring would drastically change the nature of the game. And who knows whether for the better. I don’t think the game will go beyond having a rooting interest in America’ team in the foreseeable future.
RE: The lack of scoring in soccer is frustrating both for fans and players
OK, so do away with the goal keeper...
Exactly, you have to keep focus because that big moment can happen anytime.
In a 56-49 football game, so what if somebody scores a touchdown, you know the other team is going to take it down and score as well. Like basketball, you might as well just skip everything except for the final two minutes.
It depends on the type of lack of scoring. Yesterday you had good examples of both types of lack of scoring. In the US-Belgium game it was tense as both teams got chances, especially in the second half when Belgium was getting chance after chance, and it was tense and exciting. But before then was the Argentina-Switzerland game where the lack of scoring mostly seemed to stem from lack of effort, there was nothing tense about it. That’s really what they need to get rid of. America can do low scoring if there’s high chances, you see it in baseball all the time. What they won’t put up with is low effort.
Like Solitaire?
But I should talk; love to watch PGA golf, have been known to leap up and cheer in front of the TV when someone makes a birdie. But the thing is, many players make birdies and the cameras are always there, keeping the tension of the game.
Maybe soccer needs "stars." Or holes in the field.