Ranar farko ta FIFA Kofin Duniya 2026 ta kawo wasan da ya cika da abubuwa masu kayatarwa, inda Mexico — ɗaya daga cikin ƙasashen da suke ɗaukar nauyin gasar — ta doke South Africa da ke da ƴan wasa tara kawai da ci 2-0, kafin South Korea ta yi nasarar dawowa daga baya don ta ci Czech Republic a wasan na biyu na rana.

Katin jan sun fi yawan kwallayen — alama mai damuwa?

Wasan farko ya fara da kyau. Mexico ta buga ƙwallon da ya burge a mintuna farkon, tana jagorantar ci ta hannun Julian Quinones, yayin da South Africa ta daidaita tsananin fada ko da yake ta rasa ingancin wasa. Sai dai biyu ɓangaren sun zama gajiyayyu bayan dakatarwa ta farko ta sha ruwa, sannan matakin wasan ya faɗi sosai.

Katin jan guda uku sun zo a rabin lokaci na biyu. An kori Yaya Sithole saboda farmaki mai haɗari a matsayin mai tsaron karshe a kan Brian Gutierrez kusa da yankin hukunci; Themba Zwane ya biyo bayan bugun Roberto Alvarado a kansa a lokacin tashin hankali; kuma an kori Cesar Montes saboda ya kawar da Khuliso Mudau da gangan — mafi jayayya daga cikin yanke shawara uku.

Waɗannan korar sun yi tasiri wajen kashe rayuwar wasan. Mexico ta yi farin ciki da jagorancinta, yayin da South Africa ta riga ta yarda kafin wasan cewa duk wani maki daga wannan wasa na rukuni zai zama kyauta, ba tilas ba, tunda ƴan wasa takwas daga cikin mafi kyawun 12 na matsayi na uku za su ci gaba zuwa zagayen fitar da kai. Bege yanzu shi ne cewa ambaliyar katin jan ba za ta zama tsarin da ake maimaita ba, musamman a wasannin da ake bugawa cikin zafin rana mai tsanani.

Hawaye na farin ciki na Jimenez a ƙasar gidansa

Mafi taɓar zuciya a wannan rana ya kasance na Raul Jimenez. Ɗan wasan harbi na Mexico, wanda ya kusan rasa ransa saboda rauni mai haɗari a kai a shekara ta 2020, kuma ya yarda wannan mako don ya koma Wolverhampton Wanderers da ta sauka zuwa ƙungiya ta ƙasa daga Fulham a matsayin ɗan wasa 'yanci, ya zura kwallo ta biyu na Mexico a gaban taron masoya gidansa — ya amsa da kuka.

Fuskar Jimenez da ke cike da motsin rai ta ce komai. Zura kwallo a Kofin Duniya a ƙasar gidanka, bayan duk abin da ya wuce, ya kasance muhimmin lokaci da ya wuce iyakar ƙwallon ƙafa. Za a yi wahala wajen samun hoto da ya fi wannan daga matakin rukuni.

Begen Son Heung-min yana cikin wahala

South Korea ta yi iko da Czech Republic a tsawon wasan, kuma Son Heung-min ya kasance a tsakiyar kusan duk wani motsi mai kyau. Tsohon kyaftin din Tottenham Hotspur, yanzu yana buga wa LAFC, zai iya yin hat-trick a rabin lokaci na farko kadai — amma ya harba a gefe bayan ya wuce masu tsaro biyu, ya kasa zura kwallo daga nesa kusa da gidan, kuma ya harba kwallen kai tsaye ga mai tsaron gida yayin da yake a farfajiyar buɗe.

Son ya ƙare ranarsa da harbe-harbe shida ba tare da kwallo ba, an maye gurbinsa a minti na 69 — ɗan lokaci kaɗan bayan da Hwang In-beom ya daidaita tare da ƙewar harbi mai ban sha'awa. Wanda ya maye gurbinsa, Oh Heyon-Gyu, ya ci ƙwallon nasara. South Korea ta sami sakamakon da take so, amma kyaftinta za a sa ran ya yi ƙarin aiki yayin da gasar ke ci gaba.

Jifar nesa na shiga matakan Kofin Duniya

Faɗan a kusa da ƙungular abokin gaba — musamman jifar nesa — ya mamaye tattaunawar dabaru a cikin duk lokacin 2025/26 na gasar gida. Yanzu wannan yanayi ya isa Kofin Duniya. Vladimir Coufal, tsohon ɗan wasan West Ham United, ya jefa kwallo mai ƙarfi kuma mai miƙewa daga gefen dama zuwa cikin yankin mita shida na South Korea, inda Ladislav Krejci ya yi lokaci kuma ya yi gudu zuwa ginshiƙin kusa da kyakkyawa ya zura kwallo ta farko ga Czech Republic.

An kuma soke wata kwallo ta Tomas Soucek saboda wuce gona da iri daga ƙwallo mai 'yanci. Yana alama cewa faɗan a kusa da ƙungular abokin gaba ba za su tafi ba — ko da menene matakin gasar.