Argentina v England in the 1998 World XVI, after a heated first half encounter that saw the two teams draw 2-2, the second half started soon after.
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At the start of the second half, the referee had just blown the whistle, and just two minutes later, 'that incident' happened. When everyone didn't realize what had happened, the referee had already shown Beckham a red card, which had become the second biggest incident in the world except for "Ronaldo's cramp in France 3-0 Brazil". Other second biggest incident
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At the beginning of the second half, while both teams were still trying long passes, Beckham tried to pass the ball back just past the midfield line. Simeone came up from behind him and knocked him down.Simeone pretended to grab the ball. In fact, we can clearly see that he has elbows in his upper body and hips in his lower body, knocking Beckham down with his whole body.
There's an argument that Beckham was being harassed by Simeone from the first half, leading to his final lightening up, and in fact, Simeone's foul was one of the worst of the game, and before that, he was pretty clean and he wasn't on Beckham all the time, and he had to keep an eye on Anderton, and Simeone, and a raping Simeone was probably was going to put it aside. The "quota" was reserved for the second half
The foul was obviously a designed foul against Beckham, as to why Beckham was targeted, I think it was most likely England's second score of the first half, when Simone let Beckham free a little bit, he could have made a good pass directly to Owen's feet, and then after the first half of the game, Argentina had already determined that Beckham is a key player in England's defense, and with one of his deliveries, he can immediately set Owen free in front of him, which is an absolutely fatal situation for Argentina who have an unstable back line and midfield position as a result.
By then, Beckham was young and energetic, he was already a key player for United, but he was still a supporting player for England. In this case, he was put in the middle and spent the entire first half running around and scrambling for short distances. He also struggled to get away from Simeone's defense and get space to pass. If he plays for long periods of time he will feel very sad.
Simeone's old treachery is on full display with this foul and it pays off big time. He's bumping Beckham like that because he's masquerading as an opportunity to grab the ball without stopping. Second, it was a great opportunity. The referee's eyes were chasing the passes back and forth and weren't fully focused on watching them. Finally, as they both fell to the ground, Simeone supported Beckham's back with his hand.
At the moment of impact, the referee was already on them, so Simeone immediately did a brake move to make the referee think he was trying to stop. I guess if the referee really wasn't paying attention, he'd probably want to sit right on top of Beckham and see Simeone's full body and bracing with his hands.
The reason for this is because when you get knocked down in sport and have an extremely close call with an opponent, you instinctively want to push them away immediately because you're in a safe area of being violated and are afraid of being hurt. I think Simeone was actually trying to elicit a reaction from Beckham to get a yellow card. In the referee's eyes, it looked as if he had already committed a foul, but he attacked his opponent anyway (so the pros just need to curb that instinctive reaction to avoid being penalized).
As a result, after the referee blew the foul, Beckham fell down on the ground at the first time and didn't react well.Simeone saw that the underhanded tactics didn't work, and immediately pretended to be a gentleman and got up to care for Beckham.However, no one thought that at this time, Beckham was lying down on the ground, and then he was on fire, and then he kicked Simeone with his right foot.
This has no effect at all, it can't hurt anyone, it's just a small gesture, but Simeone is great, he doesn't let up on the tension, as soon as he feels a kick in his calf from Beckham, it immediately plays out as Beckham tripping him and he sits on the ground and protests to the referee
In fact, how could you trip him? It's a stumble at best, so that's why Simeone is really scary and definitely one of the toughest midfielders in Argentina's history.
And then we must once again mention the referee for this game, Nys. He's Danish and older fans know the man. He was a super referee, so to speak. Of course, one will remember that he is 196 centimeters tall and is supposed to be the tallest referee in history.
However, many people don't notice that Nice is a very strict referee. He doesn't smile and I rarely see him smile and talk to the players. I should say he doesn't talk to the players at all during the game. There is absolutely no room for his rulings. No player wanted to argue about anything in front of him. They would immediately disperse and continue to prepare for the game. Otherwise, they would immediately get another card. Nice wouldn't even have the kind of. "Warn the player not to do it again" action or talk, if you want to do it again it's your business, I'm going to award a yellow or red card.
