The 2018 World Cup in Russia has been recognized as the best in history. Now and officially – Sports Mail.Ru

The 2018 World Cup in Russia took place beautifully – and on the organization, and the atmosphere, and, in fact, the level of football. This is what we have known for a long time. But to enjoy such a nice wording, it's never too late.

How to know that even … the English are delighted with the FM-18. These same Englishmen who intimidated their fans "terrible and brutal Russia". And now it's rented. OptaSports is the largest football statistics company based in London. For example, you knew that Alexander Golovin was the only football player in the world to have scored a free kick in the 2017/18 season and a free kick. and in the European competition? Opta and he brought to light.

</p> <aside name="clb13908155" clbad="teaser teaser_incontent teaser_twitter"> <div clbad="teaser__preview"> <div clbad="article-embed article-embed_twitter"> <blockquote clbad="twitter-tweet" data-lang="ru"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr"> 2 – Aleksandr Golovin was the only player in 2017/18 to score a direct free kick in both the World Cup and the big European competition (against Arsenal in Europa League). Finesse. <a href="https://t.co/zotkBF0gJg"> pic.twitter.com/zotkBF0gJg </a></p> <p> – OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) <a href="https://twitter.com/OptaJoe/status/1019214439223046144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"> July 17, 2018 </a></p></blockquote> </div></div> <p><img decoding="async" src="http://rs.mail.ru/d13908155.gif" style="width:0;height:0;position:absolute;" alt=""/></p> </aside> <p>

So, the guys from Opta have all counted and come to a nice conclusion for us: 2018 World Cup – the coolest in history. Well, it is not new either, but such recognition by statisticians is very successful.

Alexander Duncan, a senior employee of the company, especially for the BBC, explains why Opta came to this conclusion. The specialists were impressed by several things:

1) The number of victorious goals scored after the 89th minute. The indicator of the dramatic nature of matches. Their World Cup was already 9 – it's more than … in the last five world championships in total! Wow.

2) Many sensational results. Especially the failure of Germany stands out – well, it would be strange, does not please the English. In any case, the departure of the current world champion is always more intrigue of the tournament.

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3) Goals of standard positions. Perhaps someone this trend seems boring, but the World Cup in Russia has proved unique in a completely different sense. Already 43 percent of the goals on the FM-18 were scored after the standards were played.

4) VAR system. Everything is obvious: it is in Russia that this innovation was used for the first time. In addition, it was used very actively – referees often scored a goal or, for example, decided (no) penalty just after "watching TV".

5) Only one match of the World Cup ended in a draw. The best result since 1954 – when, of course, scoring was much easier. Only France and Denmark at the FM-18 gave a boring game and did not score goals. In all other meetings, spectators in Russia attended an badisted show.

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