What does shuffle mean in football games? Why do many teams do this?

In football matches, there is a special phenomenon called "reshuffle". What is a reshuffle? It is the intention of players to apply for red and yellow cards in irrelevant games to avoid the suspension of yellow cards in subsequent key games, so as to achieve the purpose of playing in key games in the future.

The most famous reshuffle incident was Mourinho's "reshuffle" in 2010.

In the UEFA Champions League group stage, Real Madrid led their opponents 4:0. Since there is no suspense in the game, Real Madrid is about to qualify from the group stage, Alonso and Ramos, who are about to be suspended, openly applied for a "red card" on the court after receiving the instructions of Mourinho.

As a result, both of them were sent off. After receiving the red card, Ramos took the initiative to show goodwill to the referee and left the court happily.

After the game, Mourinho performed a special show in order to cover up his reshuffle. Said "I don't like seeing my players get red cards, so they can't play, which will be very unfavorable for me."

But everyone knows Sima Zhao's intentions. Because the game process was too explicit and the intention was too obvious, Mourinho did not escape UEFA's punishment in the end.

After studying the match report of the referee Thomson on duty, Mourinho, Ramos, Alonso, Casillas and Dudek were determined to deliberately reshuffle or participate in the reshuffle, which violated the "fair competition". UEFA issued severe punishment. Mourinho suspended for two games + a fine of 40,000 euros, and the club was also fined 120,000 euros.

From then on, the reshuffle will be severely cracked down, and any "deliberate reshuffle" behavior on the football field will be punished.

However, that being said, the behavior of reshuffle is the default "unspoken rule" on the football field. The cumulative yellow card suspension or red card suspension will give people the opportunity to take advantage of loopholes.

Especially in the process of league championship and relegation, as well as the key stages of the cup group stage and knockout stage, there may be players "acting a game" of cards and suspension of early.

Here I will give an example.

For example, the rule of a certain cup match is to "get three yellow cards and be suspended for one game", with a total of six rounds of the group stage. In the fifth round, a player happened to have two yellow cards before. Since the victory or defeat in the sixth game has little impact on the game situation, the player will take the initiative to foul and get yellow cards, which will accumulate the number of yellow cards and suspend the game and will not be able to play in the last game of the group stage.

When the team qualifies after the group stage and arrives in the knockout stage, the "yellow card suspension" regulations will no longer work for this player, and the team does not need to worry that if the player gets cards in the knockout stage, he will not be able to play in the next game.

And in the league, there are also many regulations. For example, in the Serie A game, players once had four yellow cards suspended for one game, while in the Bundesliga, five yellow cards suspended for one game.

Suppose there is a team, and the last game is a life-and-death battle for relegation. The two teams have to fight head-on, but there are many key players in the team wearing yellow cards and there is a risk of suspension. What should the team do to avoid the risks at this time?

So some teams will make some tricks. In the third round of the game, they will deliberately let players in the team who have accumulated yellow cards suspended first. The number of accumulated yellow cards in the third round of the game is here, and the second round of the game will be suspended. If a final relegation battle is on hold, these players can be put on the battlefield again.

This will avoid the main players. If you get yellow cards in the penultimate round, the cumulative number will be reached and you will not be able to play in the last round of life and death battle.

"Shunt down" of rules like this has become the default unspoken rule on the football field and is difficult to stop. For victory, everyone is utilitarian and it is impossible to allow football rules to put their teams in deep trouble.

Then in order to avoid a crisis, the reshuffle has become a "political correct" decision. Everyone is tacitly convinced. If you don't say it, I won't say it, as long as the intention is not too obvious like Real Madrid's reshuffle.

When I watch football games, I am no longer surprised by the phenomenon of "reshuffle". It can only be seen how the rules are revised to avoid frequent occurrence of this phenomenon in the future.