“It’s not normal after 85 minutes not to suffer opportunities and when you enter the field you undergo opportunities.” The Blues coach criticizes the protocol for bad weather that interrupted the challenge against the Lusitans for two hours
Chelsea-Benfica will be remembered how The longest game in the history of football: 4 hours and 38 minutes. The challenge, which saw I at the end Blues Triumfare 4-1 after extra time, it was suspended for more than two hours due to the rigid protocol for bad weather. An initiative that has talking about himself much more than the final result and that has aroused noisy criticism, starting from those of Enzo Marescacoach of the English club.
Chelsea – Benfica, the criticism of Enzo Maresca: “It is not normal to suspend such a game”
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“It’s a joke, it’s not football“. They are the first words of Enzo Maresca during the post-match press conference. The Chelsea coach showed up halfway, happy for the final result, or 4-1 for the blues, but very controversial about the long suspension of the game: ” I understand the stop for safety, but it is probably not the right place to make a football game. Guys, it is not a football to suspend a game for two hours. I’m happy, but there are things that are difficult to understand“.
As scheduled, the game started at 16 local time and ended at 20:38, or after 4 hours and 38 minutes. The reason was the long suspension of the challenge due to the rigid protocol for bad weather. A few minutes from the final whistle, with Chelsea ahead 1-0, the referee had to stop hostilities due to a heavy rain: The players were returned to the changing rooms and the spectators evacuated, only to make them return to a past alert. Once the game has been resumed, the blues were reached by the penalty of Of Mary which brought the challenge to extra time.
“There were people who laughed, who ate with his cell phone in his hand. It is no longer the same football match after two hours – The London coach continued polemically – It is not normal after 85 minutes not to suffer opportunities and when you enter the field you undergo opportunities. When there are six, seven suspended games, something doesn’t work. It’s a fantastic competition, there are all the best clubs. We are happy to be here, but it is not normal to suspend a game. Between World Cup and European Championships, how many games have been suspended? Probably zero. Here are you, seven, eight?“.
Protocol for bad weather, what does it provide: already applied six times in this World Cup
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At this time of the year, thunderstorms are a reality in the United States, in particular in the central and oriental areas of the country. This creates problems for many of the host cities of the Club World Cup, therefore it is very likely that it will also be repeated in the next games. From the beginning of the tournament, in fact, it is already the sixth time that a game is suspended, or postponed, due to thunderstorms or, indeed, of the forecast of possible thunderstorms. Here is what the protocol for bad weather includes.
The protocol provides for the immediate suspension of the matches in the event of: lightning within 13 km from the stadium, twenty over 65 km/h, rain that makes the field impractical and visibility of less than 100 meters. The stadium, in this case, is evacuated, the teams fall into the changing rooms and the game is suspended for at least 30 minutes. It only resumes if there are no new lightning or adverse conditions for another 30 minutes. Furthermore, each stadium is equipped with a real -time weather monitoring system.
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