This year's World Cup breaks with tradition by being held in November, and the schedule is much more intense than before. The group battles have been fierce, and there have been a number of surprising figures. Rarely is there a
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In the small gap between the Top 8, we reviewed the group stage and told stories with numbers.
The competition is fierce, and no team has ever won it all.
The competition in this year's tournament is very fierce, after two rounds of individual group matches, all four teams have a chance to win the tournament.
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What's even more rare is that after 3 rounds of group games, none of the teams can win all 9 points, which is the first time since 1998 when the group games were increased to 32 teams. Among them, Holland, England and Morocco won 2, 1 and got 7 points, which is already the best result.
Weakest host, Qatar, to the wave.
Qatar was labeled as the weakest host nation by the fans, and they lost all 3 matches, the worst performance by a host nation in the history of the World Cup, and were eliminated with 0 points. Luckily, they scored a goal against the Netherlands. On the bright side, Qatar at least scored a goal, avoiding becoming a zero-win, zero-score, zero-goal team, and making China, who made it to the final week of the World Cup in 2002, continue to be the only Asian team with a zero-goal team in the history of World Cup final weeks.
1.88mm Miracle Japanese Controversy
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Japan beat Spain 2-1 in the group stage match, but the second goal scored by Tanaka was full of controversy. 99% of the ball looked to have gone out of the goal line before Kaoru Sanfelt's pass from the baseline, but the goal was ruled valid by the VAR after scrutinizing it. The Japanese media said that the contact line was only 1.88mm, and it was even hailed as a 1.88mm miracle.
The five dynasties have had different fates.
Mexico goalkeeper Ozua, midfielder Guadaldo, Portugal Cron and Argentina Mez, are rare World Cup of the five dynasties of the veterans, all four of them played, but the first two because Mexico for the first time in 32 years did not make it to the knockout rounds of the fate of Qatar. The two champions set a record, Cron scored five consecutive goals for the first time in history, while Mez contributed assists for the fifth consecutive time, which is also a new record.
Argentina vs. Saudi Arabia, offside at half time.
In the match between Argentina and Saudi Arabia, Argentina was penalized 7 times for offside in the first half, including 3 times for cheating. As a result, Saudi Arabia was down by one goal at half-time, but scored two goals in the second half, shocking the football world with a comeback victory over Argentina.
The youngest player to be drafted and a member of the Wave, and Galvatron's got a lot to live up to.
Spain's Gavi became the youngest player to be selected for the World Cup at the age of 18, 109 days old, in a 7-0 thrashing of Costa Rica. The Barcelona star also scored a goal to become the youngest Scot and the third youngest player to score a goal in the World Cup.
Stars have more to worry about, and less to settle for at half-time.
For the first time ever, the World Cup is being held in the middle of the European football season, so the internationals have to report back to their clubs immediately after the World Cup to prepare for the second half of the league season. As a result of this, the players have been hesitant to play too much in the group stage, resulting in low scoring in the early part of the tournament. As a result, there were 24 0-0 halves out of 48 matches in this year's group stage.
Alfonso Davis, lightning fast.
Canada, which has been away from the World Cup for 36 years, set a record this year, scoring the fastest goal of the group stage with a 68-second header by Alphonso Davies against Croatia, but they were still defeated 1-4. The team, one of the next World Cup hosts, also graduated with two goals for and seven against in three defeats.
Extra-long extra time to increase effective playing time
In the Group B match between Iran and England, a goal was scored in the 13th minute of extra time to make it 2-6, the official figure is 90+13, which means a goal was scored in 103 minutes. As a matter of fact, due to the many goals and substitutions, as well as injuries to players, the first half of the extra time lasted 14 minutes, and the second half lasted 15 minutes, which is a record for extra time. For this year's extra time is particularly long, international
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The Chairman of the Refereeing Committee, Mr. Coelena, said that the purpose was to increase the effective playing time.
Crown Hair Grievance High-Tech Talk
In the second half of Portugal's match against Uruguay, a half pass and half shot by Gonzalo Fernandes in the 54th minute led to a goal by Cron, who said that his hair was in the way and that he should have been credited with the goal, which led to a controversy. After the match, soccer manufacturer adidas issued a special statement: "We have added state-of-the-art contact technology to Al Rihla (the official soccer ball), and we are sure that Cronenberg did not touch the ball at all in this goal. The 500Hz IMU sensor on the face of the ball was analyzed with a high degree of accuracy.
Argentina's death match, the fans are coming in.
Argentina's second group round match against Mexico affects them
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Destiny. According to official figures, there were 88,966 fans at the Roussel Stadium, the highest attendance in the 28-year history of the World Cup. The last time there were so many people at a World Cup match was the 1994 World Cup Final, when there were 91,194 spectators at the Rose Bowl.
The South Korean man is kicking ass, and his fan base is soaring.
In the group match between South Korea and Ghana, Taejik Tigers were trailing by two goals before Cho Kyu-sung's second-half goal...
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The South Koreans lost 2-3, but the number of followers on Cho Kyu-sung's social media sites surged from 840,000 before the match to 1 million half an hour after the match ended. South Korea in
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After the defeat against Brazil, his followers exceeded 2.52 million, which is quite exaggerated.
