If, at the World Cup in Qatar, Group C, Mexico had not conceded a goal from Saudi Arabia in the set time, a special auxiliary criterion – the number of yellow cards – would have decided the progress between them and Poland to the next stage. With exactly the same score and match against each other, it was the discipline at the previous championship 2018 in Russia that advanced Japan at the expense of Senegal. The fairest way to decide on a balanced balance sheet is still being sought.
From a sporting point of view, a replay appears to be the most fair. Let it be decided on the field in a direct fight. But due to the lack of time, when big tournaments have clearly defined dates, it is not possible.
A repeat duel would perhaps fit in if it took place the very next day, as is the case in cup races, when the encounter is canceled by unexpected natural or technical circumstances.
But that doesn’t work at all, and doctors agree that it is medically impossible for footballers to recover sufficiently and start the next day.
In the history of world championships, repeated matches can be found, and in quite a decent number. Before penalty kicks were introduced after thirty minutes of extra time, they jumped after every draw in the knockout rounds.
In 1934, at the World Cup in Italy, there was a replay of the quarter-final match Italy – Spain (1:1 and 1:0), four years later in France there were three: Switzerland – Germany (1:1 and 4:2), Cuba – Romania (3 :3 and 2:1) and for the Czechoslovak chronicle the memorable quarter-final between Brazil and Czechoslovakia (1:1 and 2:1).
From the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, it was again switched to basic groups, where ties could be taken into account in the final table more skillfully without the need for additional fights, but quite inexplicably, contrary to common sense and a sporting view, FIFA did not take into account the score or the original mutual score in the event of the same number of points wrestle.
She called it a tie, in 1954 in Switzerland, the Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey met again after six days (4:1 and 7:0) and Switzerland and Italy at the same time interval (2:1 and 4:1).
It must be remembered that in this tournament, even more inexplicably, he did not play each other in the basic group, but only two matches. However, this was the space for a decisive encounter.
For this reason, three matches at the 1958 WC in Sweden had to be repeated, even though all participants had already met in the basic groups. After the original draw (1:1), Wales defeated Hungary (2:1), the Soviet Union defeated the opponent (1:0) after a draw with England (2:2).
Confusion over whether this criterion is correct was then caused by the repeated duel between Northern Ireland and Czechoslovakia. The Irish won 1:0 in the first matchup, but coach Karel Kolský’s selection had a much better score, which was reflected in a high win over Argentina – highly active 8:4, against passive Northern Ireland 4:5. However, it was played again, two days after the last game, Northern Ireland won 2-1 after extra time.
The added criteria then did not allow further burdensome repeated duels, in the case of a tie in the elimination part, shots from the penalty kick mark decide. And in the basic group, the number of collected yellow cards.
If this item is also the same, the lottery is coming…
Source: FIFA
