In the 51st minute of the game, the Japanese team scored the second goal. The referee first made a penalty and left the boundary first, but the referee finally scored a goal after listening to the opinions of the video assistant referee for a long time.

Whether this ball is out of bounds may be a misunderstanding of the confrontation between the Japanese team and Spain in the 2022 World Cup. In the 51st minute of the game, the Japanese team scored the second goal. The referee first made a penalty and left the boundary first, but the referee finally scored a goal after listening to the opinions of the video assistant referee for a long time.

Observe the ball completely out of bounds

The game ended in the 50th minute. An Lu, who appeared on the bench, scored first. After three minutes, he sent the ball to the back point as if passing and shooting again. Teammate Misatsuko saved the ball back to the middle "outside the sideline, and Tanaka Bee scored. With 2 goals in 3 minutes, the Japanese team overtook the score.

However, the lineman immediately raised the flag, thinking that the ball had already gone out of bounds before the goal was saved and returned to the middle. However, the referee kept communicating with the video assistant referee, and then after a long wait, VAR finally confirmed that the goal was valid. The Japanese team scored two goals in just 3 minutes, surpassing Spain 2-1, and jumped to the top of the death group.

The author watched the video replay in the stadium media seat. From the naked eye, the ball really went out of the bottom line, and it was very obvious.

Video referee confirmed that the goal was valid

In this World Cup, FIFA introduced a lot of high-tech. In addition to the previously criticized semi-automatic offside system, chips were also implanted inside the ball. With these high-tech, the assistant referee's penalty can be more accurate and confident. When the referee made the final penalty, he made a gesture that the assistant referee determined that the goal was valid. It was obviously a high-tech analysis to confirm that the ball was not out of bounds as a whole, and the second goal of the Japanese team was valid.

Of course, football rules stipulate that only when the ball goes out of bounds can it be considered out of bounds. In other words, out-of-bounds refers to the maximum cross-section of the entire ball, and the projection of the ground exceeds the white edge before it is calculated out-of-bounds. As long as this projection is slightly connected to the white edge, it is not out of bounds. Obviously, the judgment of the naked eye is sometimes inaccurate.

Of course, in a sense, the German team is the victim of this high-tech penalty. Otherwise, if Japan only draws Spain, the Japanese team will miss the opportunity to qualify and the German team will qualify.

technology intervention has joy and sorrow

It must be admitted that technology has promoted the fair competition in football. Taking the video assistant referee as an example, it does increase the accuracy of the penalty, but because of the time spent watching VAR and the frequent "slaughtering" wonderful goals, it has been criticized by many fans. In this season's Serie A Juventus and Sarenitana , Juventus striker Milik took off his clothes and received his second yellow card and was sent off, but not long after, the referee determined through VAR that the goal was invalid, but Milik was sent off but could not be changed, which attracted condemnation on the Internet.

At the Qatar World Cup, semi-automatic offside recognition technology (SAOT) was unveiled. As a VAR auxiliary technology, SAOT is like the "hawkeye" system in tennis. It shows off offside more accurately, but it also destroys the smoothness and excitement of the game, causing more intense discussions. In the opening match of the World Cup, SAOT was determined to be invalid by Ecuador's score in just three minutes of the opening game. Argentina's three goals in the first half were cancelled due to offside, and two of the penalty was between millimeters.

It is obvious that technology should have the final say whether the Japanese team's second goal is offside. However, there was a famous saying in the past: Misjudgment is also part of the football game. Although technology is refusing to make mistakes, if technology is overshadowed and makes the audience disgusted, this may not be a good thing.

Source: Author: Chen Hua