Late last night Beijing time, FIFA officially announced that Brazil vs Argentina, which was cut off in September last year, will choose a day to replay. FIFA fined both the Brazilian Football Association and the Argentine Football Association and announced that four players who had previously violated the epidemic regulations, Buendia, E-Martinez, Lo Celso and C-Romero, were suspended for 2 games.
In this regard, in the early morning of Beijing time, the Argentine Football Association officially said: "For the results of the penalty for the World Preliminary Tournament Argentina vs Brazil notified by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, the Argentine Football Association has requested the Disciplinary Committee to provide a legal basis in order to file an appeal at an appropriate time and in an appropriate form." We will defend the Argentine Football Association and the players as we have always done, because the result of this penalty does not conform to the facts and the law. ”
As we all know, in the early morning of September 6 last year, Argentina played only 6 minutes in the World Preliminary Tournament against Brazil, and was cut off by the intervention of the Brazilian health department, and then the South American Football Federation issued an announcement: waiting for the final ruling of FIFA.
Two months later, brazil and Argentina both received early tickets to the World Cup in Qatar, and fans paid less attention to the Battle of Baa-Afghanistan, which lasted only six minutes. Even Messi didn't play in the first two world preliminaries this year. In these two rounds, Argentina won 2-2 and Brazil won 1 draw and 1 win. Argentina closed the gap with Brazil to four points.
Originally, if FIFA had ruled that the battle between Baa and Afghanistan was a draw (relatively reasonable), Argentina might not have thought of competing with Brazil for the first place in South America, but because last night FIFA decided that the match would be replayed on a different day, it created an opportunity for Argentina to attack the first place in the South American World Preliminary Round. Argentina's appeal is obviously also to judge FiFA to award Argentina to win, after all, it is the Brazilian side that directly destroyed the game.
The last 2 rounds of the South American World Preliminary Round, Argentina is at home to venezuela, away to Ecuador, and Brazil is at home to meet Chile, which still has the opportunity to qualify, away to Bolivia, which has the advantage of the plateau home, Argentina is very likely to narrow the point gap with Brazil to less than 2 points through these 2 rounds of matches.
If so, the final Bar-A-rematch will directly determine who is the first of the two teams in South America. May be fans feel that it doesn't matter who is first and who is second? This is actually the thinking of Chinese fans, and it is not suitable for South America. Brazil and Argentina are a pair of old enemies, as long as there is a chance to compete for the first place, who will give up lightly?