Anything more is normally an outlier and due to an injury that required a great deal of time to deal with it. Outside of the World Cup, it is typical to see stoppage time amount to less than five minutes in either half. SB Nation has devised a quiz based on your style of sports fandom that will *scientifically decide which team you really should be rooting for. We know that most of you already have a rooting interest in the World Cup. So with three goals to scored, basically you lose five, six minutes. “The celebration normally takes a one, one-and-a-half minutes. “Think of a match where in a half there are three goals scored,” Collina added. Goal celebrations are also part of the stoppage time calculus. We told everybody, don’t be surprised as you will see the fourth official raising the electronic board with a big number on it: six, seven, eight minutes.” ( ESPN) “What we already did in Russia, you may remember, is to more accurately calculate the time compensated at the end of each half. The largest part is the time wasted because of the match,” Collina said. “When we speak about wasted time in a match, we should make a difference between the time wasted because of the game, and the time wasted deliberately by players. If you think there has been an abnormal amount of stoppage time at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, your gut feeling is correct.įIFA Referee Committee chairman Pierluigi Collina revealed the reason to ESPN for the seemingly exorbitant amount of time that is being added on at the end of the halves:

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