FIFA to consider allowing 4th sub in extra time

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Substitutes have made a big impact at the World Cup, and there could be more of them in four years' time.

FIFA's coaching advisers will propose before the 2018 World Cup kicks off that teams can use a fourth substitute in extra time.

Up to three replacements are currently allowed, even when knockout matches go to 30 extra minutes after scores are level in regulation time.

The FIFA technical study group was denied the chance to approve a fourth sub at its annual meeting in March 2012, when FIFA withdrew the proposal.

Gerard Houllier, a member of the panel, suggested it should now be revisited.

"At this World Cup everything is going so quick, so fast, the tempo has been so high," he said. "As a technician we would like to have in extra time the possibility to have another substitution."

He added that changing the rules could see fewer players struggle with muscle problems in high-intensity matches.

FIFA has asked Houllier's group to propose ideas to football's rules panel, which is known as IFAB.