2022 World Cup opening match between Qatar and Ecuador: 0:2

In Europe, the men from Qatar will probably be little known, neither their playing strength nor their style of play. The South Americans are known for their strong team play and for the qualities of the individual players. The first 20 minutes presented a massively superior Ecuadorian team that completely dominated the game and pushed the hosts in behind. No sooner had the game started than Ecuador scored their first goal, but it was disallowed for offside a few minutes later. Qatar, on the other hand, was completely invisible. In another attack, the goalkeeper of Qatar could only stop the attacker Enner Valencia, captain of Ecuador, by a foul in the penalty area: Penalty. Valencia immediately took the shot himself and converted in the 16th minute to make it 1-0 for Ecuador. Feeling 10 minutes after that, exactly in the 31 minute, a high cross from Caicedo led to Ecuador's second goal, again by Valencia, who powerfully headed the high cross into the goal: a dream attack and a dream goal. Ecuador shows itself strong, determined and unstoppable. Only towards the halfway point of the game do the Qataris thaw out and also start to play a combination football, trying to play their way through the midfield, something they have been completely denied until now. from minute to minute, Qatar's game gets better, but the difference in quality to Ecuador is striking. Nevertheless, in the 5 minutes of stoppage time, they manage to launch a great attack and to cross from the right in front of the goal to the free-standing man Amoez Ali, who unfortunately does not get the ball on his head properly, otherwise it would have been 2:1 soon. You feel sorry for Qatar and you hope that they can play their talent even better so that a more balanced game, but in the first half Qatar is completely lost.

The second half of the game starts almost like the first, Ecuador controls the game and the opponent. Qatar now has a bit more space, but the Qatari players don't move around enough, they don't create enough play stations and Qatar's game suffers from stupid bad passes. A header on Ecuador's goal is a respectable effort, but nothing more. Qatar is not dangerous and the game is not exciting, because Qatar seems to have no chance. Accordingly, the game ripples along, after Ecuador also takes some steam out of the game to save their strength. With weak attacks, catastrophic mispasses and uncreative play, Qatar can achieve nothing but damage its reputation. At the end of the second period, all the spectators are certainly glad that the whistle blows. Nothing came from Qatar and Ecuador fulfilled its target. It was great for Ecuador, but for Qatar and the spectators the opening game was a disaster. Please don't continue like this.