No. 507: Red and Yellow Card Battle!

Under the huge disparity in strength, the mysterious trip to North Korea was defeated at the feet of Portugal, creating the largest score difference in nearly four decades. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The team newspaper commented: The gap between Asian teams and the world's strongest teams is widening.

If Australia's four-goal defeat at the feet of the German chariot in the first round was an accident, what about South Korea's three-goal defeat at the feet of Argentina and Japan's four-goal defeat at the feet of the Netherlands in the second round?

The Portuguese won the most hearty World Cup in nearly four decades.

North Korea made up for the gap in quality with their aggressive runs in the first half, allowing the Grapes to score only one goal, but in the second half they collapsed......

The North Korean team is not a marathon runner, and they had problems with their fitness in the second half, and then they fell behind by a big score, and they also had psychological problems.

So far, all four Asian teams have suffered heavy defeats at the feet of their opponents in South Africa, which shows that the gap between Asian teams and the world's strongest teams is further widening.

The Portuguese media took the opportunity of the big win to ridicule Messi.

Portugal Victory said: Before the game, Ronaldo said that he would score in this game under strong pressure from Chen. The North Koreans certainly knew who was the most dangerous in the Portuguese team, so Ronaldo couldn't get a decent shot on goal throughout the first half.

But towards the end of the game, Ronaldo seized the opportunity to score!

After the goal, Ronaldo's face hung a childlike innocent smile, and Eusebio, the number one legend in the history of Portuguese football sitting on the sidelines, seemed to see the shadow of him when he galloped on the battlefield 44 years ago, and gave a heartfelt thumbs up on the sidelines, expressing congratulations to Ronaldo for finally scoring a goal.

Messi, where are your goals?

The Argentine Cape of Good Hope newspaper counterattacked: Although Messi did not score, Argentina has advanced in advance!

Portugal, did you qualify?

Have you forgotten that you still have to fight Brazil to the death?

Cristiano Ronaldo did score, but Chen has already scored five goals and he has nothing to be proud of!

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Chen Fan did not become a weapon of attack between the Portuguese and Argentine media, and he was preparing for the final game of the group with his teammates in Cape Town.

Van Marwijk "got on the road" and when he arrived in Cape Town, he asked the player to meet his wife or girlfriend.

After spending a lingering night with Emil, Chen returned to training, and Emel used the time to tour the scenery of Capton with Buchera.

With the second round of the Group of Death over, all eyes have turned to Euro 08 champions Spain.

Can Spain adjust their form to win?

If they lose again, they will be the first team among the favourites to be eliminated.

It can be said that the star-studded Spain has ushered in a back-to-back battle.

Group H started with a shock first-round win over Spain from Switzerland and a first-round win over Honduras.

This is a battle for an early round of qualification, and whoever wins will qualify early.

At 4 p.m. on the 21st, the match between the two teams kicked off at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.

Once the game began, Switzerland resorted to a steady counter-attacking tactic, which was the basis for their upset victory over Spain.

With the Swiss defending intensively, the Chileans could only threaten the Swiss goal with long-range shots, but the quality of their long-range shots was not high.

In the 31st minute of the first half, the Swiss team paid the price for their strong defense - Swiss midfielder Behrami protected the ball on the sideline, first raised his left hand to touch Bosejou's face, and then raised his right elbow to hit Vidal's cheek, Saudi referee Al Hamdi directly showed a red card!

The Swiss team can only play with one less.

With numbers outnumbered, Switzerland had to defend to the end, and the Chileans had no choice but to finish the first half with a 0-0 scoreline.

Switzerland, with 10 men, have kept a clean sheet for 529 minutes, surpassing England's record of 501 minutes from 1982 to 1986 and closing the record held by Italy.

At the start of the second half, Chile continued to attack, and Switzerland resorted to a retrenchment tactic.

In the twentieth minute of the second half, Chile attacked again, Valdivia went straight in the midfield, and Paredes burst into the right side of the penalty area in an offside position!

Paredes got past on-the-go goalkeeper Benaglio and rubbed his left foot near the bottom line to the back post, and Mark Gonzalez fired a ferocious header from four meters in front of goal!

The soccer ball smashed on the turf to evade Lichsteiner's clearance and flew into the net!

The ball is in!

1 to 0!

Chile, which fought with one more man, has finally paid off!

In the end, the Chilean team defeated Switzerland by one goal and qualified from the group in advance with two wins in two games!

Saudi Arabian Al Hamdi, who was on duty after the game, was criticised by the media, showing a total of nine yellow cards and one red card in the game.

The German newspaper Bild used this headline: The roughest battle of the World Cup is repeated! Saudi Arabia's referee has zero tolerance for the director of 9 yellow and 1 red tragedy!

When a quick offensive and defensive game is over, fans can't remember which players on the field have a catchy performance, but they remember the referee's decision.

As the only protagonist of the hustle and bustle, the referee obviously has to take full responsibility for himself, the purpose of the referee is to make the game more smooth, rather than using the whistle in his hand to blindly show his so-called authority.

Today's referees of Switzerland and Chile, Saudi Arabian Al Hamdi, played 9 yellows and 1 red, equaling the previous record of Spaniard Marenco, and tied for the two most ruthless referees in this World Cup, but is it appropriate for him to do so?

In fact, it did not play any positive coordinating role.

Of course, FIFA also has to reflect on this zero tolerance, that zero tolerance, let the referee play cards unscrupulously, and if you flip through the book, you can still find an excuse. But is it still interesting to go on with such a competition?

Alhamdi played his cards in several situations today, one is to tackle or pull from behind, the second is the conflict in the set-piece dispute, the third is to compete with the referee, and the fourth is some foul actions in the attack of the players.

The second and fourth are the most controversial in Alhamdi, and the reason is simple: do you really see it clearly?

In the 60th minute, Inler kicked down Sanchez in defense, Fernandez came out for his teammates and pushed Inle, Al Hamdi followed up and showed yellow cards to the two respectively, whether Inler's action is worth eating cards is debatable, and Fernandez came with a yellow card again, and the hand was too heavy.

Double yellow is out, and the two teams are in uniform?

Not necessarily, and it was even more comical, as Chile took the free-kick and in a scramble for the penalty area, Medel pushed Switzerland's von Bergen in the chest, but von Bergen fell with his face covered.

This action is reminiscent of the performances of several actors in Côte d'Ivoire and Brazil yesterday, von Bergen's actions are too exaggerated, and even unreal to watch, but he is the same as Rivaldo in 02, his acting skills are bad enough, but he is enough to deceive the referee who didn't see the situation at all, and Alhamdi gave Medel a yellow card for some reason.

These three yellow cards, the interval is very short, Alhamdi completely by his own feelings, he just fell into a big taboo when the referee enforces: football games should not be intensively played, otherwise the rhythm may not be controlled by you, and the anger of everyone has been adjusted.

What's more, Al Hamdi clearly didn't see what was happening in the box. above

From the eighteenth minute to the twenty-fifth minute of the half, Alhamdi played three cards in a row in seven minutes, and the rhythm was a little ruthless, as if he wanted to show the authority of the referee early and scare the players.

But too many facts have proved that the referee who dares to dig out the cards crazily, nine times out of ten, there is a chance that something will happen in a game, and they will be killed by you anyway, everyone simply messes together, and there is no accident in this game, but Al Hamdi's opening three yellows have no warning effect, and he also leaves a handle for others.

The biggest controversy in this game comes from the red card, and it must be emphasized here that Behrami's two actions are ruthless enough, and when he dribbles the ball, he uses this kind of arm raising movement, saying that he has no intention at all, and I am afraid that he will not be able to convince the public.

But Al Hamdi didn't react to the first action, and gave a red card directly after the second action, the standard here is very confusing, the players are too excited, and the pace of the game suddenly increases at a certain time, which leads to very irregular actions.

The referee must know how to suppress this desire to perform, because it will hurt the opponent, but the referee directly uses a red card to suppress it, and the damage is too great.

The suspect Behrami will only be 100 dissatisfied, and whether he intentionally or not, the fact is really a serious elbow incident? When Chileans do that kind of action, there must be no performance component?

Because Behrami's rough and rough action is in the front, in the eyes of high-level professional players, there is an urge not to take advantage of nothing.

Al Hamdi should take into account the performance factor, which is a very important component, of course, not to let him play cards to the performer, but try to look at the reactions of both sides comprehensively and objectively, and then give a penalty of whether to play a card.

In this game, Al Hamdi was strongly reacted by the suspected victim at a critical moment, taking away the self-judgment and old sense that the referee should have.

A very interesting dialogue between the second-tier elite teams in South America and Europe was turned into a 10-on-11 twisted game by Alhamdi, who lacked the ability to read the game, and everyone was very uncomfortable.