Football icon's fury as Cup opener marred by VAR

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The World Cup took conscionable minutes to beryllium thrown into contention aft the archetypal extremity of the opener betwixt hosts Qatar and Ecuador was overturned by VAR owed to a ruling of offside.

It took hardly 3 minutes for the men successful yellowish to find the backmost of the net, courtesy of a header from Ecuador skipper Enner Valencia.

But arsenic Ecuador was celebrating what would person been the fastest extremity successful a World Cup opener, the extremity was reviewed and yet disallowed.

An angled transverse came successful to Ecuador's Felix Torres, who leapt to situation Qatar keeper Saad al Sheeb. He headed the shot towards Estrada, whose mistimed scissor footwear was headed by Valencia.

A graphic beamed connected the broadcast immoderate 10 minutes aboriginal showed the little portion of Estrada's limb - who was past to interaction the shot earlier it was headed into the backmost of the nett by Valencia - was successful beforehand of the second-last defender erstwhile Torres headed it.

"Well there's a spot of contention - nary extremity for Enner Valencia, nary extremity for Ecuador," legendary commentator Clive Tyldesley said.

"Offside is the determination ... determination we spot the offside, it's surely not evident to the scorer. We haven't had the storming commencement that looked morganatic to the bare eye."

Former Premier League player-turned-pundit Alan Shearer said fans crossed the satellite would beryllium outraged.

"I don't deliberation there's immoderate idiosyncratic watching this successful the satellite who thinks that this is offside," helium said connected the BBC.

"I'm going to person a blooming precocious humor unit by the extremity of the period if this carries connected this way."

A abbreviated clip later, Valencia recovered the backmost of the nett from the punishment spot, marking the archetypal clip the opening World Cup extremity had travel from a penalty.

There was besides immoderate disorder arsenic to wherefore the offside extremity was overturned due to the fact that determination was a Qatari defender intelligibly down the ball. But due to the fact that the goalkeeper was up of the ball, the past defender efficaciously assumes the relation of the goalkeeper.

In a World Cup first, the determination besides progressive the usage of caller semi-automated exertion introduced to assistance successful making offside decisions.

The exertion uses 12 tracking cameras nether the stadium's extortion to way not lone the shot but up to 29 information points connected each player, including limbs.

When a subordinate receives the shot successful an offside position, the exertion alerts officials, who are inactive required to manually validate the technology's determination and marque the call.

Ecuador won the tourney opening clash against the big federation 2-0, the archetypal clip successful 92 years that the big had mislaid the opening game.

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