Portugal da Spain suna shirin sabunta ɗaya daga cikin manyan hamayya na Iberia a ƙwallon ƙafa, lokacin da za su yi wasan a zagaye na 16 na Kofin Duniya. Alkalin wasa ɗan Ingila Anthony Taylor ne zai jagoranci wasan a ranar Litinin da yamma a Dallas Stadium, Arlington, Texas.

Taylor yana kawo iko mai ƙarfi ga wannan aikin, bayan ya yi sama da shekaru 16 yana yin alkalanci musamman a Premier League. Ɗan asalin Greater Manchester mai shekara 47 yana cikin jerin alkalai da FIFA ta amince da su tun 2013, kuma ya tara gogewa a cikin wasanni 838 na gasa.

Rikodin Taylor a wannan Kofin Duniya

Alkalin Ingila ya riga ya jagoranci wasanni biyu na marhalar rukunin a wannan gasar — nasarar Senegal 5-0 akan Iraƙi da nasarar Colombia 3-1 akan Uzbekistan. Adadin hukunci nasa yana nuna salon ƙarfi da daidaito: kusa da katunan rawaya guda 4 a kowace wasa a matsakaici, da ƙwallon penalti daya kowane wasanni biyar a kusan Premier League a kaka ta karshe.

Taylor ya taba yin alkalanci ga ƙungiyoyin biyu da suka shiga, inda ya jagoranci wasanni biyar na Spain da wasanni huɗu na Portugal a baya.

Ƙungiyar alkalanci a ranar wasan

Abokan aiki biyu na Taylor daga Premier League, Gary Beswick da Adam Nunn, za su yi aiki a matsayin mataimakan alkalai. Jami'an Jamus Felix Zwayer da Robert Kempter za su ɗauki nauyin alkalin na huɗu da mataimakin alkalin ajiya bi da bi.

Sake wasan da aka jira tun daɗewa

Wannan wasan yana ɗauke da nauyi mai yawa. Ƙasashen biyu sun taɗu karo na ƙarshe a Kofin Duniya a Sochi a 2018, suna ba da wasa mai ban sha'awa wanda ya ƙare 3-3, ɗaya daga cikin wasannin marhalar rukunin da aka fi tunawa a tarihin gasar. Cristiano Ronaldo shi ne jarumi ga Selecao a wannan rana, inda ya ci kwallaye uku don tabbatar da maki ɗaya akan maƙwabtansu.

Yanzu yana da shekara 39, Ronaldo ya tabbatar cewa wannan shi ne Kofin Duniya na shida kuma na ƙarshe a matsayinsa na ɗan wasa — wanda ya sa wasan Litinin ya zama mafi mahimmanci ga Portugal, waɗanda ke neman wuri a zagaye na ƙwata-fainal ɗin tare da abokan hamayyarsu na Iberia.