China News Agency, Beijing, November 27 (Hao Lingyu) with France’s victory over Denmark ahead of schedule in the early morning of 27th, the curse of “defending champions can’t be outcast” “created by France in 2002 was broken by its own hands.
Before that, the host Qatar team lost its enemy to Ecuador in the opening battle, making the iron law of “the host’s first battle undefeated” become the past, and both wars were out in advance, sit in the title of “the worst host.
The changes in the opening stage of this Cup are far from breaking the above curse and law.
On the edge of the green field, the style of the head coach is one of the focuses of previous Cup matches. Different from the leading role played by European giants in previous sessions, the first two coaches in this Cup came from Uruguay and Saudi Arabia respectively.
Uruguay Coach Alonso, who commanded suits and suits on the side of the field, attracted the attention of many fans with high appearance. He once served as a foreign aid of the Chinese Super League in the player era, helping Shanghai Shenhua team win the championship of the East Asian club in 2007. This fate with China made him gain a lot of favor from Chinese fans.
Saudi coach Renard was famous for beating Argentina in the first world war with the cold. His coaching style was full of passion. A midfield dressing room inspired the Saudi team to watch Massey’s surging speech, attracting a lot of fans for him and the Saudi team.
In This World Cup, the two new rules of “5 substitutions” and semi-automatic offside penalty, which were first launched by FIFA, have had a great impact on the game.
Compared with the previous team, each team can only change 3 people per game. The “5 substitutions” rule gives the head coach more tactical freedom and changes the players’ original physical distribution mode, it brings more variables to the competition.
In this Cup, the Japanese team replaced 4 attacking players in the second half, and the German team won the sudden change rhythm “flashing”; After that, the Brazilian team replaced 4 strikers, through the front line talent reserve, the Serbian team was successfully defeated.
Semi-automatic offside penalty is the first time in the history of the World Cup to use artificial intelligence to assist in penalty. According to media reports, this new technology not only improves the accuracy of offside penalty, but also shortens the time for video assistant referee to judge offside from 70 seconds on average to 20 seconds.
Argentina may be most impressed by this new rule. In the first round against Saudi Arabia, Argentina only had three goals in the first half and was sentenced to offside but invalid. Argentina coach Scaroni complained after the game that some offside were “millimeter class.
In addition, the extra-long make-up time is another big change in this Cup. The England team played against Iran, and the upper and lower half matches made up nearly half an hour. According to statistics, after the group match between Argentina and Saudi Arabia, the longest five half matches in the history of the World Cup all came from this cup.
The principle of making up for the long time in this World Cup stems from FIFA’s hope that fans can enjoy the effective competition for a longer period of time, ensuring that the competition time will not be replaced, dealing with injuries, the leading team was too much affected by deliberate waste.
However, there is a view that the extra-long replenishment brings more physical consumption, which is unfavorable to the leading team. England coach Southgate said after the end of the first battle that the upper and lower half of the match had made up for nearly half an hour, which made the England team need to focus too long, and suggested that the extra-long match helped the Iranian team finally scored another goal.
One of the charms of football is that no one knows what will happen next second. The introduction of many fresh elements undoubtedly adds more uncertainty to this World Cup, which is different from the past. (Finished)
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