Testing is not effective! British media: Wenger s radical offside rule changes may fail

May 17th The Times reported that French coach Wenger's radical offside rule changes may fail.

Winger's new offside regulations proposed may face stranding due to subversive impacts. The FIFA global development director piloted the new rules of "there is a visible distance between offside players and defensive players to be judged for offside" in youth competitions, but at the FIFA conference held in Asuncion, the former Arsenal coach admitted that the trial data was worrying.

The Council of the International Football Association, the football rule-making body, will rule on the matter in March next year, but the possibility of the new rules being downplayed is continuing to increase. Victor Montalyani, vice president of FIFA and chairman of the Central and North American and Caribbean Football Association, stressed that the experiment must ensure that the game will not go to extremes, either evolve into a desperate defense of all players or crazy scores.

"The first round test was not effective," Montalyani said. "Any offside rule modification needs to be fully verified, which may lead to a huge change in the tactical system. Will the team retreat across the board because they cannot create offside? Or will it spawn a goal frenzy? Maybe I have a conservative concept, but no one wants to see a forward with six goals in a single game in the Manchester City derby. According to the current rules, three-quarters of these goals should be judged offside. Careful research must be conducted before making decisions."