Hiraeth英语播报：俄罗斯世界杯

2018 FIFA World Cup is currently ongoing inRussia starting from 14 June and will end with the final match on 15 July 2018.Compared with the past World Cups, there are something new, which you don'twant to miss:

2018国际足联世界杯今年6月14日在俄罗斯开战，7月15日将结束最后一场比赛。与上一届相比，今年世界杯有些新亮点不容错过：

1.       Thebiggest feature of the Russia world cup is the introducing of the VideoAssistant Referee.

今年世界杯的最大亮点是引入了VAR视频回放技术。

2.       Ifa match goes to extra time, each team will be allowed to make a fourthsubstitution, the first time this has been allowed at a world cup.

第一次在世界杯加时赛上增加到4个换人名额。

After 14 days competition, 48 games, the hostsRussia are through the last 16, along with the former world cup winners Brazil,Argentina, France, and Spain. However, defending champions Germany were amongthe 16 teams who did not qualify from the group stage. Impressively, there havebeen 24 penalties awarded during the group stage with the help of VAR, which isa record for this entire tournament. Basically, the VAR has helped referees tomake the right decisions in most cases, but it won’t eliminate allcontroversies.

经过14天48场比赛，东道主俄罗斯进入了16强，同时晋级的有世界强队巴西、阿根廷、法国和西班牙，它们都曾是世界杯冠军。但是，卫冕冠军德国队等16组在小组赛中出局。在小组赛中，令人印象深刻的是记录整场赛事的VAR技术，在它的帮助下判决了24个点球。VAR在大多数情况下帮助裁判做出了正确判决，但它没有消除所有争议。

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