12-11-2015, 10:39 PM
Casual observations from an admitted soccer non-fan:
- very excited Stanford advances to the final, because they are Stanford.
- penalty kicks are exciting, and stupid at the same time
- reasonably interesting overtime periods since the teams seemed to try to score
- boring regulation time. As seems to often happen in soccer, teams seemed to bat the ball around midfield with no desire to take chances. Maybe there were exceptions, but I can't say I was riveted to the game.Â
- At least college soccer has a game clock that counts down, with time stopped for injuries. Much better transparency to help minimize manipulation by ref.
- very excited Stanford advances to the final, because they are Stanford.
- penalty kicks are exciting, and stupid at the same time
- reasonably interesting overtime periods since the teams seemed to try to score
- boring regulation time. As seems to often happen in soccer, teams seemed to bat the ball around midfield with no desire to take chances. Maybe there were exceptions, but I can't say I was riveted to the game.Â
- At least college soccer has a game clock that counts down, with time stopped for injuries. Much better transparency to help minimize manipulation by ref.