Ossoi
I am well aware of the idea behind the extra time, but as far as I can remember, the norm was like around 3 minutes and it took very special circumstances, like injuries or technical difficulties to see it balloon to 5 or 6 minutes. 8 minutes for a half like we saw in the Germany vs Japan match is mind blowing to me. Checking the VOD, it was also 4 min in the first half that had no substitution, no injury and one penalty kick. So my question remains : is that a new thing, a thing that has been going on in the last few years or not really a thing and these two matches were just weird (conspiracy theorists would say suspicious) ?