Pep Guardiola has lamented “annoying” new refereeing directives designed to fight time losing throughout video games.
Manchester City and Arsenal’s Community Shield conflict on Sunday noticed the introduction of quite a lot of new refereeing directives, together with extending extra time and never permitting a participant who acquired therapy on the pitch once more for 30 seconds.
The former led to over 12 minutes of extra time being added on to the top of the sport at Wembley Stadium, with the initially slated eight minuted being prolonged after Thomas Partey and Kyle Walker suffered head accidents late on.
Along with the Community Shield lasting over 100 minutes, all however two this weekend’s EFL Championship video games went over the 100 minute barrier and the FIFA Women’s World Cup has additionally seen video games commonly have 10+ minutes added on.
Speaking concerning the rule changes, Guardiola expressed his annoying on the size of video games, saying: “It was annoying but we have to get used to it. I had the feeling, not because we were winning 1-0, but that not much happened to extend it for eight minutes.
“It’s a very good query for the worldwide board and other people as a result of they do not seek the advice of with managers and gamers and we’ve to just accept it with this quantity of video games. Now the video games will likely be 100 minutes. Nothing occurred immediately and there was eight minutes.
“They extend for goals. If you score 4-3 you put 45 seconds for seven goals, tomorrow morning at 9am I am [still] here playing.”
Man City kick off their Premier League marketing campaign on Friday night in opposition to not too long ago promoted Burnley at Turf Moor.
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