Longer amounts of stoppage time in matches has been one of the main talking points in the Premier League this season - but what impact has it had?
Over the opening eight weeks of the Premier League's 2023-24 season one of the main talking points has been the amount of added time in matches.
Last year, former referee Mark Clattenburg even suggested introducing 60-minute matches with a stop-clock to eradicate gamesmanship.In last season's competition, the average 'ball in play' time was 54 minutes 52 seconds - the lowest in more than a decade.Well, so far, the evidence suggests it has, with Premier League matches seeing an average ball-in-play time of 58 minutes 48 seconds - an increase of almost four minutes.
last season was one which Everton manager Sean Dyche said he believed would benefit bigger clubs, because of their ability to assemble stronger squads.The number of injury time goals in the second half of matches stands at 24 this season - which, with 30 matchdays remaining, is already almost half the total scored in the whole of last season .
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