One thing people don't know or forget is that the French goalie Hugo Lloris is Harry Kane's teammate at club level (Tottenham Hotspurs) so scoring penalties against a player you train with week in and week out brings a whole new dimension to his missed penalty.

The moment you start stopping the clock you open the door for TV breaks and advertisers. To hell with that.

You know what else flabbergasts me? Why a 60 minute game takes 3.5 - 4 hours to finish.

My wife was going nuts when she saw 10 minutes in the Argentina/Netherlands match. Considering that she's Argentinian, you can imagine how she felt until Lautaro buried his penalty in the back of the net (he's had such a bad tournament).

It's fascinating that FIFA can use this advanced VAR system to find that a guy is a millimeter offside, but can't seem to purchase a clock that can pause. I mean I get it when the game was played in the 1870s and teams couldn't afford to add a second hand to the stadium clock, but it's 2022. They have to have heard of the stopwatch by now.

There is a bit of an unwritten rule you grew up with when playing football, thatt the ref will allow a final push forward if the attack is promising in the final seconds of the game (such as a ball in the half of the opponent or a corner kick).

Any substitution is 30 seconds. Attending an injured player is at least 1 minute. That is the base of normal calculation of stoppage time. In any game in the second half is at least 3-4 minutes of stoppage time, but in this World Cup FIFA is trying to be more accurate in lost time inside a half.

I actually love the way they do it. They conduct the extra time according to the flow of the game. It’s brilliant

2:20 Hey T.J., Rich was very much like Skip Bayless where every single story devolves into a Dallas Cowboy comparison.

Even fans don't have a clue what makes up the calculations nowadays.

They just need to pause the clock for injuries.

One thing: there are reasons they allow the set play to happen. 1.The winning team will try to delay it being taken. 2. The referee may have to deal with some stuff in the penalty box. 3. There may be a delay in getting the ball. 4. Because the referee has blown for the set play before time is up, he will allow it to play out. 5. History: in the 1978 World Cup, Brazil needed to score a goal to reach the semi final (I think). They won a corner in the final seconds of the match. They took the corner and "scored", however the referee had blown for full time while the ball was in the air because time was up. The Brazilians were not impressed. The ref was Clive Thomas from UK, a known stickler for rigid interpretations of the rules. Letting the set play play out therefore avoids such controversy.

Games has a 4th referee outside the field that is in charge of the stopwatch. He will stop the watch every time there is a pause in the game for a foul. Then about 5 minutes before halftime and the second half he tells the referee how many more minutes to add.

The first time I hear from Rich about soccer (no Football). Cool. What we see at the World Cup anything is possible. Outsiders and favorites change from day to day. I look forward to Rich's comments when the World Cup is held in the USA in 2026.

The reason they leave it open until the end of the half is because they don't know how long certain moments of stoppage within the half are going to last. Some last only a fraction of a minute and play continues then there are other times where it lasts a few minutes. So they in review of the half add it all up to one number. As far as when stoppage time continues, it is when a team is in position to potentially score an important goal and time is extended to force the defending team to completely shut down that scoring opportunity, instead of just delaying it or simply hoping to get saved by the clock.

It's an emotional game! There's highs, lows, hype, crying, cheering, anger, frustation, laughing! It's pretty emotional! It's everywhere! Nuff Said!

It’s bizarre, even us from “soccer” nations are confused about all the added time 🤷🏻‍♂️

Think anyone playing in the next few days can match the speed and strength of delvin cook?

This is how stoppage time should be if they actually counted all the time wasted. They normally miss 3:4 minutes of actual game time.

Because team's like to waste time playing they should have a clock for extra time allotted or stop the clock once play stops.

I was expecting some Line of Demarcation jokes

How about the actual time the players are actually playing during an NFL game is less than 7 minutes. Talk about stoppage time.

Keep watching and you’ll get the feel of it

I daresay we have 200 to 300 athletes playing running back cornerback and shooting guard who would run amok in the world cup were soccer their game of choice. Seriously anyone out there who can run with Tyreek hill? Think sauce Gardner could could anchor the back end?

What’s soccer????

Time to start calling flops in soccer

Alot of Moroccan heritage in France......Zidane the best french player ever is of Moroccan descent

The WC has been deadly dull.

America knows nothing of soccer. Period.

I happen to believe that they sho….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Buffalo Bills fans Are definitely that passionate. Go Bills!!

Anyone keeping up with Justin Jefferson as he streaks down the right side?

I also find this new stoppage time rules ridiculous and stupid, it should be 5 minutes max for all games. But hey, this is FIFA we are talking about, where corruption is normal.

Colonialism; no one talks about both Spain and Portugal being colonized by Muslims for ages. That kind of repeated this wc.

Stoppage time is literally the only thing about modern football that feels strange to me. Just stop the dang clock until play resumes.

Do not understand the popularity of soccer. Boring as hell, full of flopping, not enough scoring.

Nah TJ walked right into that poster. How you gonna say the cowboys had nothin to do with World Cup fans crying when you just said I wish we cared that much 🤣🤣

So, how is Messi doing? 1.o0

Typical Americans not understanding basic football stoppage time😂😂...actually football as a whole.

Soccer is the game of the future, and always will be.

1) Get rid of the offside rule. If you're to lazy to guard a striker that sneaks in behind you, then you get what you deserve. 2) Every full 15 minutes of overtime that passes, remove a player from each team. 3) Put up padded walls like indoor soccer so the ball doesn't go out of bounds so much...

Ohh absolutely Rich, the colonialism element is a HUGE part of the narrative of that game.

FIFA indirectly murdered 6000 poor brown workers in baking hot dessert of Qatar - a land were gays can be killed for being gay - read article in the guardian news website

Man I hope this comment gets read two days later because I feel like I'm the only one frustrated by the concept of stoppage time in general. Why the clock can't just stop when play stops is something I simply can't understand why they won't change. And it's not even about it being up to the referee to blow the final whistle sometime within the minute or after the events of a set piece conclude, it's that I don't get what a stoppage is, period. The commentators for a USA game I watched mentioned several times how referees at the World Cup this year have been extra particular with stoppage times. I didn't notice a difference though watching their first game and in others, it never feels like they add enough time, so curiously, during the USA vs. Netherlands game, I timed the first half. One would think a stoppage should occur anytime the ball isn't in play, right? So I started a timer at kickoff and paused it for every penalty, injury, and set piece, then resumed it once play resumed. When the game clock hit 45 minutes, the amount of stoppage time should equal (or be close to) how much time is left until my clock reaches 45 minutes. The first half had one minute of added stoppage time, but my timer was barely over 29 minutes. They literally played a 30 minute half, not 45. I couldn't believe it, so I know what you say about the timing being mostly arbitrary has to be true. And that said, I challenge someone at Roku to do the same thing for the France vs. Argentina game and present their findings, it would be a good follow-up to this segment.

Guys, I like you all, but hey this is the real football

I dislike soccer.

I love you guys talking NFL, NBA and Baseball but sorry you have no sense for soccer! Talking only every 4 years, maybe 2. As you grew up with your sports and playing it by yourself, you would know it is part of the game! This WC is the best in 20 years, because all stars are in full shape coming directly from their Leagues instead after a long season with a long camp in Summer! And all of the new rules and changes worked well so far! Believe a soccerplayer like me😉

⚽️ is a world sport and not just a national league 🏈… real world championship and champs.

It is NOT any "Soccer," it is the real Football played by Foot NOT by hand as so-called 'American Football" is. Stop this fraud and insulting charade!