FT: QATAR 0 - 2 ECUADOR. Match thread

The opening game of the 2022 World Cup

From the Al Bayt Stadium, ko 4pm UK.

Match Officials:

Referee: Daniele Orsato (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Ciro Carbone (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Alessandro Giallatini (ITA)
Fourth Official: István Kovács (ROU)
5th official: Mihai Artene (ROU)

Game is live on BBC 1

There are also five VAR officials for each game.

VAR: Massimiliano Irrati (ITA)
AVAR: Paolo Valeri (ITA)
OVAR: Tomasz Listkiewicz (POL)
SVAR: Benoit Millot (FRA)
SBAVAR: Pawel Sokolnicki (POL)

VAR: Video assistant referee
AVAR: Assistant VAR
OVAR: Offside VAR
SVAR: Support VAR
SBAVAR: Stand-by AVAR

Reports saying that it’s been a fixed match at 1-0 Qatar with goal in the second half

Surely not with the world watching

Ecuador sound a decent team, qualifying in that group isn’t easy. A young vibrant team. I’m hoping for 8-0

I'm hoping Qatar get stuffed, but Equador will need to score twice to overcome Qatar's penalty.

Can anyone name some famous Qatar players?

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Originally Posted by Wales-Bales

Can anyone name some famous Qatar players?

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Shake
Mo
Ham
Head

Think this tournament is going to be a major PR disaster for Qatar.
Myself...won't be watching much.....enjoying Bristol Rovers v Peterborough....decent game.

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Originally Posted by Maurice Swan

Think this tournament is going to be a major PR disaster for Qatar.
Myself...won't be watching much.....enjoying Bristol Rovers v Peterborough....decent game.

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Will probably still watch most games, but not this one, or any other Qatari games.

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Originally Posted by Ninja

Will probably still watch most games, but not this one, or any other Qatari games.

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How did they get their fifa ranking? No competitive games recently….:shrug:

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Originally Posted by Wales-Bales

Can anyone name some famous Qatar players?

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Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendricks and George Harrison.

Also live on Al Jazeera

I hope they get stuffed and it’s in a lifeless stadium with thousands of empty seats. Anything that adds to the long list of embarrassing headlines coming out of Qatar in the last few days will suit me fine.

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Originally Posted by Whisperer

Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and George Harrison.

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Finally :biggrin:

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Originally Posted by Wales-Bales

Finally :biggrin:

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Mohammed Covonia.

Var will find a way to disallow that

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Originally Posted by PontBlue

Var will find a way to disallow that

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Done :hehe:

Ha ha. Offiside !!!!!!

And so the on-field farce begins....

Fixed What a scandal.

Farce. There was clearly no offside shown in the replay

Any idea why that was ruled out.?

Who is this co commentator??

Dion Dublin

Wow, integrity of the whole tournament called into question already.

What a joke of a decision. Keeper punches it, ball goes up the air and maybe he’s a fraction offside but never enough to overturn it.

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Dion Dublin

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Should stick to daytime selling houses programs.

I think the on-screen graphic said offside which is clearly bollocks having seen a replay. I thought they'd claim high boot

Penalty to Qatar.

How on earth was that offside? That's 5 mil in the officials account to start with

The Qatari manager has praised his team’s resilience and strength of character in next weeks 3-1 win.

Think it might have been when the keeper was in front of the ball, so there needed to be two defenders behind the last attacker. It looked level to me mind.

Just to say, Dion Dublin’s a hopeless summariser.

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Originally Posted by Canton Kev

The Qatari manager has praised his team’s resilience and strength of character in next weeks 3-1 win.

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The Qatari manager added that he was very surprised to reach the final.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

Think it might have been when the keeper was in front of the ball, so there needed to be two defenders behind the last attacker. It looked level to me mind.

Just to say, Dion Dublin’s a hopeless summariser.

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But the ball wasn’t played by an Ecuador player forward at that stage either way. He was well onside when the ball ended up coming in.

Justice

I think even wed score more than 1 against Qatar.

RIP the referee, who accidentally fell out of his hotel room window 3 hours after the game.

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Originally Posted by LA Bluebird

But the ball wasn’t played by an Ecuador player forward at that stage either way. He was well onside when the ball ended up coming in.

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The 'replay' picked out two players who were in front of 3 Qatar players when the free kick was taken. If no-one questions that we're all f****d,

They showed the feed from the technology on US TV and they said #11 who never played the ball was offside when the keeper punched it and maybe it glanced off one of his teammates. Incredibly dodgy decision.

I wonder what are the odds on an Ecuador player getting sent off.

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What a header! 👏 👏

2 must be offside?😂😂😂

Fantastic header.