On November 26, local time, the second round of Group D of the World Cup group stage staged a focus battle. The defending champion France team defeated the Danish team and qualified one round ahead of schedule.

In this game, with Mbappe scoring twice in the second half, the French team defeated the Danish team 2:1.

The French team is also the first team to qualify from the group in this World Cup.

The picture shows the French player Mbappe (blue) in the game.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Cui Nan

(Qatar World Cup) Breaking the "curse" and "iron law" What are the new changes in this World Cup?

　　China News Agency, Beijing, November 27th (Hao Lingyu) As the French team defeated the Danish team in the early morning of the 27th and qualified ahead of schedule, the curse of "the defending champion cannot qualify for the group stage" "created" by the French team in 2002 was personally broken by him.

　　Prior to this, the host team Qatar lost to Ecuador in the opening game, making the iron law of "the host undefeated in the first game" become a thing of the past, and both games were eliminated early, earning the title of "the worst host".

　　The changes in the opening stage of this cup are far more than the above-mentioned spells and laws being broken.

　　On the sidelines of the green field, the demeanor of the head coach has been one of the focuses of previous cup games.

Different from previous years where European giants played the leading role, the first two coaches in this cup are from Uruguay and Saudi Arabia.

　　Uruguayan coach Alonso, who is in a suit and leather shoes, commanded from the sidelines, attracted the attention of many fans with his good looks.

As a player, he was a foreign player in the Chinese Super League and helped the Shanghai Shenhua team win the 2007 East Asian Club Champions Cup. This fate with China has made him more favored by many Chinese fans.

　　The head coach of the Saudi Arabian team, Renard, made his name with an upset victory over Argentina.

His coaching style is full of passion, and a surging speech in the midfield locker room motivating the Saudi players to mark Messi has attracted many fans for him and the Saudi team.

　　In this World Cup, two new regulations, "5 substitutions" and semi-automatic offside penalties, were first launched by FIFA, which had a considerable impact on the game.

　　Compared with the previous rule that each team could only make 3 substitutions per game, the "5 substitutions" rule gave the head coach greater tactical freedom, changed the original physical distribution mode of the players, and brought more variables to the game.

On November 27, Beijing time, in the second round of Group E of the Qatar World Cup group match, the match between Japan and Costa Rica officially started.

The picture shows the moment when No. 4 Fuller (red) of the Costa Rica team shoots.

　　In this cup, first the Japanese team replaced four offensive players in the second half, and the sudden rhythm "blitzed" the German team successfully; then the Brazilian team replaced four forwards, and successfully attacked the Serbian team's defense in turn through the striker talent reserve.

　　The semi-automatic offside penalty is the first time in the history of the World Cup that artificial intelligence is used to assist the penalty.

According to media reports, this new technology not only improves the accuracy of offside judgments, but also shortens the time for video assistant referees to judge offsides, from an average of 70 seconds to 20 seconds.

　　Argentines may be most impressed by this new regulation.

In the first round against the Saudi team, the Argentine team had 3 goals disallowed for offside in the first half alone.

Argentine coach Scaloni complained after the game that some offsides were "millimeters".

On November 26, local time, the match between Argentina (blue) and Mexico in the second round of Group C of the 2022 Qatar World Cup group stage was held at the Lusail Stadium.

In the end, the Argentine team defeated the Mexican team 2:0.

The picture shows Argentine player Otamendi (middle) fighting with Mexican player Irwin Lozano (right).

Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita

　　In addition, super long stoppage time is another major change in this cup.

In England's game against Iran, the first and second half of the game totaled nearly half an hour of stoppage time.

According to statistics, after Argentina's group match against Saudi Arabia, the five longest stoppage times in World Cup history all came from this cup.

　　The super-long stoppage time ruling principle of this World Cup stems from FIFA’s hope that fans can enjoy a longer effective game to ensure that the game time will not be too much affected by substitutions, injury treatment, and deliberate waste of the leading team .

　　However, there is a view that the super-long stoppage time brings more physical energy consumption, which is not good for the leading team.

England coach Southgate said after the first game that the stoppage time in the first and second half was nearly half an hour, which made the England players need to focus too long, and hinted that the super long stoppage time helped the Iranian team score another goal.

　　One of the charms of football is that no one knows what will happen next second.

The introduction of many fresh elements will undoubtedly add more uncertainties to this World Cup than before.

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