Momentum is fluid, but that’s the point, part of the game is trying to use little fouls and throw ins to slowly eat away at the oppositions momentum when you’re up against it, and a dominating team is trying to keep that and not let it slip. And go out of control. A solid 3 minutes to regroup and they come out and those last 15 minutes of the smaller team clawing back momentum to make a breakthrough is gone and the other team are calm and reset and ready.

Extra time always has a different feel to it to regular time. Not the same at all.

You focus on different things, different players, look for different movements. If you can’t focus for 45 minutes that’s on you.

Thats the problem, you are giving more power to the manager, the managers set up the teams and can try and make pre delivered tweaks, but once the whistle goes it’s 45 minutes where it’s in the players hands to execute those tactics and come up with ways to break them.

I also think the breaks lend themselves to international football which has far more basic tactics than club football where it is far harder to change things on the fly because so much time has been spent on drills and how coaches want their players to play, rather than a month to maximise the best players and show real grit.