![]() "VAR may be a factor," Boykoff says about the first-time World Cup use of the Video Assistant Referee.īoykoff says the use of video reviews may be leading to more scoring. Former professional player Jules Boykoff says the lack of scoreless ties could be tied to technology. Which means Charlie Broad has been pretty happy during this World Cup of only one nil-nil draw. "Like, I liked England beating Panama 6-1 because I like Harry Kane. "I don't like scoreless draws because it's not very fun for me," Broad said at the end of his soccer day. Camp participant Charlie Broad, 10, isn't that harsh. It may be soccer-friendly Portland, but this is still the U.S., where the allure of high-scoring sports like basketball make a nil-nil draw seem, well, pathetic. "I like nil-nil scores because all the player's faces are like." he said, scrunching up his face, "all the players look really sad. Standing on a lush green field at the camp, Ju-ju Madden, who's the same age, offered a decidedly different 9-year-old take on scoreless draws. And if you have a good team normally you have a good goalie and the goalie's just saving all of the shots." "But I know a lot of the teams that get scoreless draws are both really good so they're going their hardest. " nobody scores, it's kind of sad," he said. On a sunny Tuesday at the city's Bernie Fagan Soccer Camp, 9-year-old Zeeshan Faruqi said scoreless draws both are fun, and not fun. In nearby Portland, a soccer hotbed, it's not surprising to hear similar sentiments, even from a next generation of soccer lovers. It's all about how you get there.Ĭhildren at the Bernie Fagan Soccer Camp in Portland, Ore., where soccer's next generation had their own opinions about Tuesday's double goose eggs at the World Cup. ![]() So the discontent really appeared less about the scoreboard, and more about the action - or lack thereof - on the pitch.īecause soccer fans, real soccer fans, will tell you there's absolutely nothing wrong with a nil-nil draw. Essentially, not much reason to play the kind of exciting football that's been a hallmark of this up-to-now successful and engaging World Cup. There was a lot of kicking the ball around midfield, and Danish players mostly hung back to play defense.ĭenmark needed only a tie, scoreless or otherwise, to stay alive in the tournament and qualify as one of the final 16 teams in the knockout stage. It was a sluggish match with minimal attacking and few if any scoring chances. Imagine spending your hard earned on getting one World Cup ticket and ending up with this rubbish- Daniel McDonnell June 26, 2018Īdded Stuart James of The Guardian, "Match 37, to give the fixture its official FIFA title, ended goalless and was played out to a soundtrack of whistles and rumbling of discontent, followed by loud boos at the final whistle." Danish fans trying and failing to sing over chorus of boos from angry Russians.
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