The head of the FIFA refereeing committee, Pierluigi Collina, explained why at the 2022 World Cup the referees assign so much injury time to the halves.
Pierluigi Collina “Already at the 2018 World Cup, we began to more carefully calculate how many minutes should be compensated by the main time of the halves. Even then, we said that people should not be surprised when the reserve referee raises the scoreboard with a six, seven, even an eight.
If we want to see more pure playing time, then we need to be ready for this. Imagine a match with three goals. Usually the celebration of each goal takes a minute and a half. And now you have already lost five or six minutes of playing time of the match.
We want to calculate everything more carefully. In this regard, we were successful at the previous World Cup and we look forward to it in Qatar, ”Collina said in a commentary to ESPN.
