On June 7, the 2024 National College Entrance Examination will kick off. And on June 6, the national football team will also usher in its own "college entrance examination".
On the evening of June 6, the national football team will usher in a key life-and-death battle with the Thai team in the round of 36 of the Asian region of the World Preliminaries. At present, the national football team is 3 points ahead of the Thai team, and if you win this round, you can qualify one round earlier. However, if they lose to Thailand, the prospect of the national football team qualifying will be very unoptimistic because the final round is a away game against South Korea.
At present, the "invigilator" of the national football team's "college entrance examination" has also been determined - the Uzbek referee team will officiate this key game, in which Tantashev will be the referee.
In the second leg of this season's AFC Champions League final between Ain and Yokohama Marinos, which ended not long ago, Tantashev served as the referee. As a result, Tantashev's decision somewhat influenced the title of the champion, as he awarded a penalty to the home team in the 34th minute to give Al Ain a 2-0 lead and rewrite the aggregate score to 3-2. Then Yokohama Mariner pulled back one goal to bring the aggregate score to 3-3, Tantashev showed a red card in the first half stoppage time to send Yokohama Mariner goalkeeper Pope off, which eventually led to a 1-5 defeat for Yokohama Mariner away and lost the AFC Champions League.
Tantashev has just officiated the second leg of the AFC Champions League final, according to Visual China
Of course, there was nothing wrong with these two crucial decisions, and they didn't cause much controversy afterwards. Judging from the fact that Tantashev can be appointed by the AFC as the referee of the second leg of the AFC Champions League final, he must be the target of the AFC's key training in recent years. In fact, the 40-year-old Tantashev is considered to be the "first referee" in Uzbekistan after Ilmatov, a famous referee from Uzbekistan and the current vice chairman of the AFC Adjudication Committee, "hung the whistle". At present, Tantashev is ranked relatively high in the AFC's elite referee camp, and he is also one of the candidate referees recommended by the AFC to FIFA for the 2026 World Cup finals.
Judging from Tantashev's style of enforcement, his punishment scale for physical confrontation is generally more lenient and encourages confrontation, but his cards are also quite decisive. In the past, Tantashev has officiated the national football team in two games, losing 1-2 to Japan in the first round of the 2019 East Asian Cup and 2-3 away to Saudi Arabia in the 2021 World Cup qualifiers in Russia. In addition, Tantashev also officiated the Chinese Olympic team's match in the men's Asian qualifiers for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, when the Chinese Olympic team lost 2-3 to the Iranian Olympic team.
On October 12, 2021 local time, the top 12 of the 2022 World Cup Asian Qualifiers, Saudi Arabia men's football team VS Chinese men's football team, Wu Xi, Jiang Guangtai and referee Tantashev theory According to IC photo
Although the national football team and the national Olympic team lost three times, the defeat actually had nothing to do with Tantashev. Moreover, in the last World Preliminary Tournament 2-3 away to the Saudi Arabian team, Wu Xi scored from a distance at the last moment of the game, although the linesman once ruled offside, but Tantashev confirmed that Wu Xi's goal was valid after watching the video replay. In the 2-3 loss of the Chinese Olympic team to the Iranian Olympic team, Tantashev also awarded a penalty to the Chinese Olympic team in the second half, allowing the team to chase the score to 2-3. It's just that the Chinese team didn't seize the opportunity and finally lost the game, so they bid farewell to the Rio Olympics ahead of schedule.
On the whole, Tantashev's law enforcement is relatively fair and just. Although its track record of enforcing China's national team is a bit heart-wrenching, the most important thing in this game is that the national football team should play its own characteristics and not pay too much attention to the referee factor. What's more, the national football team will give full play to its advantages in physical confrontation with the Thai team, and in this regard, it is still a good thing for the national football team to have Tantashev officiate this game, after all, his punishment for physical confrontation is relatively lenient.
Red Star News reporter Jiang Shan
Edited by Cheng Li
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