"What just happened?"

"Did the ball go in?"

"Wait, where's the ball?"

"..."

Many of the players at the scene and the fans in front of the TV were on the same channel as Jennings and were in a brief downtime!

Then some people gradually discovered the problem. It seemed that the football could not be found in the camera?

"Where's the football?"

The referee was also confused. He ran all the way to the penalty area and found something that made him tremble a little - the football that turned into a cannonball was lying in pieces in the goal!

Yes, that football, it exploded!

"What, exploded?"

"Is there any mistake? Although this shot is very explosive, can it really explode a football?"

"This is how strange you are. Kicking footballs is not Ruda's original invention. The aliens kicked the footballs before he retired!"

"Of course I know, but this World Cup has specially strengthened the football. They have also promoted that even if aliens shoot a football a hundred times, the football will not explode again this time!"

"Then what's going on? The so-called enhanced football still exploded into a pile of pieces and is lying peacefully in the Irish team's goal!"

"..."

Everyone looked at the pieces of football scattered on the lawn on TV, and couldn't help but tremble a few times. This is too outrageous!

It is a pity that the broadcast quality of this World Cup is not as good as that of League A. There is no specially placed camera in the goal, and there is no Eagle Eye system installed on the goal line, so it is impossible to clearly reproduce the football results through close playback.

How did it crack?

But from the slow-motion playback of other shots, we can still see that the football did not suddenly explode in mid-air like that time by Wu Jie. This time, the football hit the crossbar first, and then exploded with a "bang" for more than ten dozen people.

piece.

"Damn it, although I can't see it clearly from the TV, when the football hit the crossbar, it was obviously severely deformed due to excessive force."

"It's incredible. How fast is the ball speed to produce such a powerful impact?"

"Not only the terrifying speed, but also did you see the erratic flight path and exaggerated descent at the end?"

"Wait a minute, since the football exploded, does this goal count as a goal?"

"Yes! Does this goal count as a goal?"

"..."

Only then did someone discover the key to the problem. Ruda's ground-breaking kick from a long range, how to calculate it now?

"How to count?" Jennings, the goalkeeper of the Irish team, couldn't help but let out a strange cry of "Wuhu", and then thought to himself: "Of course it has to be counted. If this goal doesn't count, it would be unreasonable!

"

The Chinese players didn't know that the opponent's goalkeeper had suffered severe mental stimulation and was about to lose his mind.

At this moment, they and Ruda all looked at the referees gathered together with pained faces. After a brief shock, these referees actually got together to study how to award the ball.

This ball was different from Wu Jie's original ball. Wu Jie's ball exploded halfway, and the visual impact of the explosion was stronger.

Ruda's goal was even more shocking in terms of result. Not to mention that the football had been reinforced at this time. The dozens of pieces of football corpses lying there would still make fans all over the world look back at the TV cameras.

But God comes.

So after replaying the moment when the football exploded countless times, the live footage was shown to the referees on duty who were discussing how to make penalties.

The referees of this era were different from later when making key decisions. They basically relied on the referee's words.

Take Maradona's exaggerated "Devil's Hand" in the last World Cup. Because the referee said he didn't see it clearly at the time, no matter how blatant the action was, the penalty was still valid.

Of course, everyone has forgiven him now, because he did become blind later, which proves that he might not have seen clearly at the time.

Today's referee can also invalidate the goal because he didn't see it clearly, or simply invalidate the goal because the football was damaged.

No matter how dissatisfied Ruda is, he really has no reason to complain, because this judgment makes sense.

But today's referees don't want to go blind for no reason, and besides, they don't have such a blind mission.

FIFA didn't want to be blackmailed a lot by China again, so the South African referee on duty was really troubled, which is why he rarely invited other referees to discuss it.

This way, when he is attacked by public opinion after the game, he can find someone to bear it with him.

"Bah, I told them to introduce the Hawkeye system, but the damn Europeans are just too arrogant to accept it!"

Lin Yaodong spat hard at this time. The Italian side actually wanted to fully introduce the new technologies developed by Lenovo in recent years.

But without exception, they were killed one by one under the interference of FIFA. In the end, only certain innovations were made in the broadcast link. However, almost none of the creative new stadium technologies such as the Hawk Eye system were introduced.

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So how to make a penalty at this moment can only depend on the subjective will of the referee.

He felt that the goal would still be invalidated in all likelihood. After all, this decision was not deliberately targeting the Chinese team.

But when the referee, facing the eyes of the world, turned around and raised his arms flat, pointing his five fingers together at the kick-off point in the center circle, making an effective goal-scoring move, even Ruda was a little dumbfounded.

"Mr. Referee, the football is gone, how can we rule that the goal is valid?"

"Yes! There are football fragments inside and outside the goal. Why is the penalty goal valid?"

"That's right, the football didn't explode when it was shot into the goal, but exploded when it hit the goalpost. Why do you think this ball is a valid goal?"

"..."

The Chinese team didn't celebrate much at this time, because everyone was still immersed in deep pain.

The players of the Irish team were naturally unconvinced. They believed that the goal should never be awarded as a penalty.

Even if the ball didn't hit the crossbar and explode, there was no way to tell whether it would bounce out of the door or into the door. Therefore, according to the basic legal principle of a suspicion of innocence, this ball should be invalidated as a goal.

"Football can also talk. We counted the pieces of the football. There were 11 pieces inside the goal and only one piece outside. According to the basic common sense of 11:1 that the minority obeys the majority, our referee team in this field was unanimous.

Think the goal is valid!”

The referee's words left the Irish players speechless. Although there were actually many flaws in these words, since the referee had already made the penalty, it was useless for them to shout.

Besides, many people actually thought the same as Jennings. If such an explosive goal was blown away, it would be a great loss in football history.

The referees on duty at this time also took this into consideration. They did not want future generations of fans to greet their families over and over again, not to mention that this was not the only reason why the penalty was valid.

They repeatedly checked the scene of the accident. Although it was not as intuitive as the slow-motion replay of the fans in front of the TV, they still found some clues and found that the football may not have hit the crossbar and exploded directly, but bounced into the goal first.

It suddenly exploded in mid-air, otherwise there wouldn't be so many pieces in the goal.

It has to be said that these referees who can go to the World Cup to enforce the law, once they are not affected by third-party interference, their professionalism is like retired politicians in Europe and the United States, and their IQs immediately occupy the high ground.

"Haha, you didn't blow my goal away!"

Ruda couldn't help laughing at this time. He was actually prepared to have the goal ruled invalid. After all, this goal even hurt him, and the referee actually made sense no matter how he ruled it.

"You should thank us. If we hadn't suffered all the grievances in the next few decades in the last World Cup, how could you have been so smooth sailing today!"

Wu Jie snorted. He did not expect that the referee not only did not make things difficult for them, but even the ball was biased towards them to a certain extent.

"It's not easy. We also get preferential treatment one day!"

The rest of the Chinese team players, including the Chinese fans in front of the TV, had the urge to burst into tears at this time.

When have they ever enjoyed such preferential treatment?

On the contrary, various single-handed balls were ruled offside, various behind-the-back tricks were not given, and various types of tackles were ruled as diving... Even Maradona's "Devil's Hand" in the last World Cup, and Wu Jie's departure from the team

They didn't know how many times they had encountered the exaggerated incident of being given a straight red card all the way from the scene...

But today, they actually enjoyed a preferential penalty treatment for the first time!

How is this possible?

Many Chinese fans have already begun to suspect that this could not mean that "when things go awry, there will be demons, and when people go awry, there will be swords", right?

However, except for Chinese fans who expressed doubts, most fans from other countries thought this penalty was reasonable.

Because they were watching the slow motion on TV, even though the camera was a little far away and the shots were not very clear, they could still barely see that the football did not explode directly after hitting the crossbar, but rebounded towards the goal and then exploded in the air.

As for whether the entire ball has completely crossed the goal line when the football explodes, this question is actually of little significance, because if the football does not explode, it will definitely continue to bounce into the goal.

The Irish players didn't really worry about whether the goal was scored or not for too long, because before that they were 0:4 behind, and now it's just another +1.

The Chinese team's goals were far from stopping. Not long after, Chen Haonan's 30-meter long shot from outside the penalty area opened the door of the Irish team again. This was also Chen Haonan's first goal in this World Cup.

Then it was another young player of the Chinese team who expanded the score to 7:0, the 19-year-old forward Qin Yi, the fifth overall pick in the 1989 draft.

The faces of the Irish players were already darkening. Fortunately, after the Chinese team turned the score to 7:0, they finally began to withdraw their troops and no longer attacked the frontcourt.

But one problem with too many young players is that they are usually unwilling to settle the matter and have more ideas about personal heroism.

This is the case for the little guy Qin Yi. He has a strong desire to express himself after he comes on the stage. Although his talent is much lower than that of Shang Yun and Zhou Yurong, his speed, running position, and shooting skills are all top-notch. Wu Jie feels that this Qin Yi

Yi is a physically enhanced version of Hao Jianguo.

Today Qin Yi not only wants to score one goal, he wants to score more goals to make European teams really notice him.
To be continued...