In the early morning of beijing time today (16th), a controversial footage in the SEMI-FINALs of the FIFA-Arab Cup ended, and Algeria defeated the host Qatar 2-1 with a penalty in the 17th minute of injury time to reach the final championship and runner-up final. Qatar, which is aiming to win the championship, can only compete with Egypt for third place.
The Arab Cup, a test match ahead of the 2022 World Cup, began on November 30 at six World Cup stadiums in Qatar. Hosts Qatar eliminated four Asian teams to reach the semi-finals and are the only Asian team in the tournament to reach the final four. In this morning's semi-finals, Qatar took on Algeria, which is not an authentic national team, but a national selection team made up of local players, and the head coach is not the official head coach of the national team. From the beginning of the game, Qatar began a wild attack, hoping to use the home advantage to score as soon as possible, but it did not work, and in the first half, the two sides were 0-0.
After the change of sides, Algeria took advantage of a corner kick in the 59th minute to break the deadlock on the field and take a 1-0 lead. Although the qatari team, which was behind, continued to attack, it was never able to tear open the opponent's defense. At the end of the 90-minute match, the referee from Poland signaled for nine minutes of injury time. A lot of people think it's about giving the host team a chance. Sure enough, in the 7th minute of injury time, Qatar used a cross from the side to tie the score with a header from Montei. However, this goal caused dissatisfaction among the Algerian players, who believed that the Qatari players fouled first, and the action of pushing and shoving their own players in the attack should be fouled first and the goal was invalid. After the VAR intervened, the referee looked at the VAR and spent 4 minutes to verify it, still judging that the goal was valid. Qatar drew 1-1 with Algeria.
After the game resumed, in the 14th minute of injury time, Algeria broke into the box and fell down in an attack, and the referee awarded a penalty, which caused the dissatisfaction of the Qatari team. As a result, VAR intervened again, and the referee still determined that the penalty was valid after probation, so The Algerian team Bellelli took the penalty. Although the Qatari goalkeeper saved the penalty, Berelli scored a 2-1 shot, and Algeria once again rebounded. At this point, injury time was already in the 17th minute. And when the Polish referee blew the final game, it was already the 19th minute of injury time.
In this way, Qatar finally missed the final after a long period of extra time. On 18 December, Qatar will compete with Egypt for third place, which lost 0-1 to Tunisia in another semi-final, a oolong goal in the 5th minute of injury time. Tunisia will compete with Algeria for the title of this tournament.
(Source: Sports Weekly)