Play became more open in the last 15 minutes as teams tried to avoid a shootout.
Perhaps most impressively of all, when Italy needed goals in extra time to avoid a shootout against Germany's penalty experts, Lippi made three attacking substitutions and produced a result like a rabbit from a hat.
In addition, local news outlets in violence-plagued areas are frequently forced under threats to avoid reporting on shootouts, or so-called "narco-blockades," and are threatened when seeking to confirm stories of mass killings and mass graves.
Fassel said he was hoping for a windy day Sunday because he wanted to avoid an offensive shootout.
Apparently the governing body figured that the incentive of being sure to avoid a penalty shootout would encourage sides to go for all-out victory but, of course, it tended to have the opposite effect, with teams increasingly wary of making a mistake from which there could be no possible comeback.
Weary of seeing certain matches requiring an immediate result decided by the drawing of lots or tossing of coins, football's governing body had convened during that summer's World Cup finals and adopted the recommendation of penalty shootouts to avoid such TV unfriendly outcomes in future.
Wanting to avoid a passing-game shootout with the Buccaneers while also wishing to have his team slug it out physically, Parcells ordered runs on the Cowboys' first seven plays.
Suddenly, Smith and Brees were in the type of shootout that the 49ers wanted to avoid.
Maybe they wanted to avoid the Sarah Palin-esque rhetoric of Red River Shootout, which makes sense, because I'm sure most of the attending fans probably own a firearm and also harbor illegitimate feelings of hatred towards each other.
Arsenal will be eager to avoid penalties; Bradford have won their last eight successive shootouts.
