Arsenal’s Champions League final defeat to Paris Saint-Germain still hurts.
The Gunners took an early lead through Kai Havertz and produced a phenomenal defensive performance for large parts of the game. They kept everything PSG threw at them out.
However, Cristhian Mosquera conceded a penalty in the second half, and that levelled the game. The French giants then took the game to a penalty shootout and won it there.
Although penalty shootouts are mostly a fair way to determine a result, Arsenal were at a slight disadvantage in Budapest.
FIFA are now planning to address this.
If you could change or implement one rule in the Premier League, what would it be and why?
FIFA plan to change the coin-toss rule in penalty shootouts
The World Cup is well and truly underway, and we’re almost reaching the end of the group stages.
Obviously, there won’t be any penalty shootouts at this stage, but once the knockouts begin, teams will have to prepare for a battle of spot kicks.
Before that, FIFA want to introduce a new rule on the back of what happened in the Champions League final.
As the teams prepared for the shootout, the referee called the two captains to determine which side would shoot first, as well as which end of the ground the action would be in.
Arsenal, unfortunately, lost both coin tosses, and they had to shoot second in front of the PSG fans as a result.
Nobody can say for sure how much of an impact that had on the result, but it certainly has caught FIFA’s attention.
The Times have revealed that world football’s governing body wants to change that rule immediately.
FIFA want to replace the two coin tosses with just one. The winner of the toss can either shoot first or pick which end the shootout takes place in.
The feeling is that this rule change would make penalty shootouts fairer than it is right now, and FIFA want it implemented before the knockout stages of the World Cup begin on Sunday.
It remains to be seen now if IFAB will approve that request in time.
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