The World Cup opening ceremony was done at Al Sayyd Stadium, with Jung Kook of BTS performing the opening theme song. American celebrity Morgan Freeman headlined a presentation while Marcel Desailly presented the World Cup trophy after winning it back in 1998 with France.
Qatar hosted Ecuador at Al Bayt Stadium which has a capacity of 60K fans for Group A opener. Ener Valencia thought he had scored an opener for Ecuador in the 3rd minute but the goal was disallowed due to offside after Video Assistant Review. Valencia finally scored the opener in the 16th minute through a penalty before scoring an header in the 31st minute aftee being assisted by Preciado to seal all the 3 points. The intensity dropped in the second half with Qatar threatening to score but they all wasted the chances hence becoming the first World Cup host to lose their opening fixture. Following the 2-0 win, Ecuador climbed up to position 1 in the 2022 World Cup Group A table with 3 points while Qatar anchor the table with 0 points.
Content created and supplied by: SureFootballTales (via Opera
News )
Opera News is a free to use platform and the views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not represent, reflect or express the views of Opera News. Any/all written content and images displayed are provided by the blogger/author, appear herein as submitted by the blogger/author and are unedited by Opera News. Opera News does not consent to nor does it condone the posting of any content that violates the rights (including the copyrights) of any third party, nor content that may malign, inter alia, any religion, ethnic group, organization, gender, company, or individual. Opera News furthermore does not condone the use of our platform for the purposes encouraging/endorsing hate speech, violation of human rights and/or utterances of a defamatory nature. If the content contained herein violates any of your rights, including those of copyright, and/or violates any the above mentioned factors, you are requested to immediately notify us using via the following email address operanews-external(at)opera.com and/or report the article using the available reporting functionality built into our Platform
See More
COMMENTS