Before we get to the game, it's important to explain the hottest question that comes up every four years when watching the World Cup - what is offside? Definition of Offside: A player is in
offside position
It happened.
offside violation
What's that? What is it?
offside position
? Look at the position of the ball and the position of the opposing team's second-to-last player. When an attacking player is in a better position than
The ball and the opposing player in the second last position are closer to the opposing team's end zone.
The first thing you need to know is that you are in an offside position. Again.
offside violation
: A player is in an offside position and while the ball is in contact with or in the possession of a teammate, he is recognized by the referee as a
Involvement in the game in progress
, there are three definitions of involvement in an ongoing contest: one,
Impact on the game
Refers to touching or receiving a ball passed to or touched by a teammate. II,
Influencing the other team
Refers to preventing an opposing player from obtaining or dribbling the ball by blocking his line of sight or route of movement. Or, to make a gesture or movement that is recognized by the referee as deceiving or interfering with an opposing player. Three,
Benefit from offside position
A ball that rebounds off the goal frame (goalposts or lintel) or an opponent when the player is already in an offside position. It is the three situations mentioned above that constitute
offside violation
Speaking of this game, it reminds me of the famous Japanese anime - Footballer Wing in the battle between Nango Elementary School and Musashino Elementary School, Maizano Elementary School has been using the offside tactic to prevent the main team, Nango Elementary School, from attacking the front line. Returning to the game, Saudi Arabia's defense is not quite the same as Iran's, which is closer to a sunken bucket formation, while Saudi Arabia's defense is tightened up in the high positions of the strikers, midfielders, and backfield to allow a numerical advantage of 10 men in a certain amount of space for the ball to be scrambled for and pressed for.
High line of scrimmage, four players in the backfield near the center circle.
offside line indicates
The game started with a very unnecessary foul by Saudi Arabia in the penalty area, which allowed Argentina to take the lead through a 12-yard goal. Because of the difference in defense between Iran and Saudi Arabia, even though Saudi Arabia was down in the opening match, they were still able to show some ability to tear the defense apart by stealing the ball and attacking forward from the midfield, and even though they didn't have a shot on goal, they also brought the ball into the opposing penalty area many times in search of chances.
Generally speaking, in order to break through the offside trap, there are two ways to do it: one is to press the whole team to make the whole defense line retreat, so that the offside line is close to the opponent's line of defense; the other is to adopt the anti-offside tactic, and the opponent and the same offside line to conduct a defensive counter-attack, through the speed of the striker's personal sprint to get rid of the defenders, and then get the chance of one-on-one with the goalkeeper to easily get a goal. Since Argentina took the lead at the beginning of the match, they didn't need to press all the way up to the back line to create a crisis, so they adopted the second defensive counter-attack, trying to break through through the individual ability of the two arrows of Messi and Martínez, in fact, this tactic was successful, but unfortunately, Saudi Arabia's excellent positioning made the two goals in the first half were invalidated, or else the match would have produced a different result. Otherwise, the game would have had a different result.
Four Saudi Arabian defenders are standing in front of Messi, putting him in an offside position.
Messi was clearly offside when he started and ripped through the defense
Martínez offside goal disallowed, Saudi Arabia defender onside
As you can see from the pictures above, the Saudi Arabian players are very good at setting up the offside trap, but Martínez's case is also very unfortunate, as he was just short of breaking through the offside trap and scoring a goal, which is why the offside trap is so difficult to set up, as when it fails it can easily lead to a one-touch breakthrough and a goal conceded.
The first of the two goals in the second half of Saudi Arabia is the first goal is the front of the said high press in the midfield break the ball that is forward to attack, play teamwork, and successfully ripped the defense to get the equalizer.
During a 2 on 2 high rush, Arab #9 Al-Buraikan's light touch left pass fooled Argentina's Otamendi into giving teammate Shehri #11 a one-on-one opportunity to score!
The second goal was a non-war crime of Argentina, the edge of the penalty area shot into the goal, so that Saudi Arabia only two shots on goal that is two goals reversed, on the other hand, Saudi Arabia's most exciting performance throughout the game was the goalkeeper Al-Owais brilliant performance, starting from the beginning of the game to block Messi's long-distance shot, indicating that today's state of mind is good, focused, in the second half there are many brilliant saves! In the second half, there were a number of good saves, especially the header of Argentina before the end of the game, the almost certain goal confiscated, and 71 minutes of decisive strikes to avoid the high pressure in the back of the field and the distance between the goal and the back of the situation, so that Di María's one-touch ineffective, and these and the last game of the Iran vs. England have produced a strong contrast to the goalkeeper's command of the line of defense, the judgment of the strikes will be the whole team will make the next level.
After this game, Argentina's
advancement
The road is facing a crisis, everyone recognizes Saudi Arabia as the weakest team in Group C, but Argentina has 35 consecutive undefeated, but in this battle to swallow the fruits of defeat, but in the performance of the front line Argentina still has a certain level, but Argentina in this game to show the physical confrontation is also quite worrying, in many of the forced to take advantage of the advantage, which is completely different from the situation in the England against Iran, and the situation is very different. If they don't adjust to this, they will face Mexico and Poland in a tough battle. Saudi Arabia is hoping to continue this game to try to break through the group stage.
advancement
semifinals
, also testing how Mexico and Poland will cope with Saudi Arabia's high press and the play of offside tactics.
