World Cup 2018 Best in History

The 2018 World Cup has ended with scraping gold ink for the winning French team after beating Croatia at the top of the party. Although it is over, many interesting things that should be listened to, one of which assumes, World Cup 2018 to be the best in the history of the tournament.

Why is that? This refers to some statistics that occur throughout the tournament. One of them is the appearance of "drama" in several games. Not to mention, see the function of VAR technology that several times determine the course of the game.

Here are the interesting facts based on statistics that make the 2018 World Cup presumption to be the best football performance in history:

Drama
Unlike the big football leagues of the world, the World Cup did not take long to present dramas that are very exciting to be enjoyed by the soccer connoisseurs.

At the 2018 World Cup, the drama appeared at the start of the tournament when Spain played 3-3 against Portugal in the group stage. Cristiano Ronaldo's goal from free-kick execution in the final minutes, making Portugal a point success over La Furia Roja squad.

In addition, in Uruguay's match against Egypt, the winning goal was created in the 89th minute, while in Iran's match against Morocco the winning goal was created in the 95th minute.

In total, there are three goals in the final minutes that lead to victory for the team who scored,

while four other goals were created but the team in question swallowed defeat. This amount is most created than the previous World Cup.

Surprise
Football without surprise, like a vegetable without salt. However, presumably the surprise should not be too flashy because it can cause controversy ahead, or even boring.

For example, at the 2002 World Cup, when many excellent teams were eliminated when only entering the group phase. As a result, the rest of the tournament was felt bland because the leading teams have many who died.

However, in the 2018 World Cup, the surprise was "very precise". Okelah, Germany, whose status as defending champion was eliminated earlier than the group phase. After all, the "curse" of the defending champion was maintained so that the World Cup could be more exciting in the future.

After that, other seeded teams were eliminated but in the knockout stage. Starting from Spain who bend Russia, Argentina, to Brazil are made helpless when facing Belgium.

Especially for the German national team, there is an interesting record, when their goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer, recorded as the only goalkeeper capable of doing two dribel success in the face of South Korea.

Superstar sluggish.

Before the 2018 World Cup rolled out, soccer fans would hope to see world stars like Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Neymar showing their best in the field.

Initially, Cristiano Ronaldo had made the hope come true after he scored three goals against Spain. However, after that, the performance of the Portuguese star is sluggish.

Lionel Messi? Boro-boro lift the World Cup, in a few games alone he is considered "invisible" in the field. In fact, the rift broke out in Argentina after a dispute with their coach.

Then what about Neymar? Well, Neymar did become a lot of talks during the 2018 World Cup tournament took place. However, ironically, not because of his prowess in the field, but a skewed commentary, ranging from hair style "era" like a curly noodles to the action of diving.

Well, excitement was emerging from the young players. One of them is Kylian Mbappe, who successfully led France to become champion. In fact, Mbappe's two goals against Argentina in the last 16 made him the youngest player to have scored twice in one game since Pele, a Brazilian legend.

Special themes sometimes tucked in the World Cup. In 1966, for example, when a dog found a Jules Rimet trophy that had previously been stolen on display. Then in 2014, the special "theme" is about the use of goal-line technology as well as referee activity spraying liquid for the free-kick hedges.

In 1990 also had a conversation when the defensive game related backpass rules that allow the goalkeeper to pick up the ball from his own partner bait. This resulted in a match in the tournament saturated and the average goal in the 1990 World Cup was only 2.21 goals per game.

What about the 2018 World Cup? Of course the answer is the use of VAR technology. In fact, the use of technology that would affect the course of the game and the number of penalties that were created was very much. Just five days rolling, a total of five penalties. Total, World Cup 2018 also created a record for creating a total of 22 penalties.

In addition to the penalty, the draw figures are also created in terms of goals from free kicks. In fact, the number 43 percent of it is the highest record since the 1966 World Cup.