# Soccer: zero points for 0-0 draw

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [June 11, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-zero-points-for-0-0-draw/542840 "2010-06-11T20:28:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-zero-points-for-0-0-draw/542840/21 "2010-06-25T19:23:13Z")

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> [@furt](#):
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> The complaint about international soccer is not that scores can be low, it’s that among teams of even remotely comparable skill, they are _always_ low. The average score in the World Cup is 1-0.

And you’re making the classic schoolboy error of assuming more goals equals more excitement. Most of us who enjoy the game recognise the tactical nouse and gritty determination of holding out for a draw, or a one-goal advantage, as being an integral part of the sport. Plus I won 50 quid on England’s last result… 🙂

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**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-zero-points-for-0-0-draw/542840/22 "2010-06-25T19:31:16Z")

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Anyway, the average isn’t 1-0. I guess the most frequent result, in this particular World Cup, at the moment, is 1-0, but the long term average is about 2.5 goals per game.

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