{"id":737965,"date":"2026-06-15T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737965\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:29:13","slug":"world-cup-2026-premier-league-stars-score-as-germany-and-sweden-dominate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737965\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Premier League stars score as Germany and Sweden dominate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does the technology work?published at 11:20 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:20 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Sweden 5-1 Tunisia<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/175988c3-7d0e-4e3e-81b7-9b15ec673cbe.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Jonty Colman<br \/>BBC Sport Journalist<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Waveform technology showing a still image where Alexander Isak gets a faint touch of the ball\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d88e9b11-a8d7-4dbb-90cb-afaadedb69c1.png.webp\"  width=\"796\" height=\"448\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, BBC Sport<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Waveform technology that mirrors cricket&#8217;s Snickometer (more commonly known as Snicko) judged that after the free-kick was taken, Sweden and Liverpool striker Alexander Isak got the faintest of touches on the ball &#8211; and when he did, Svanberg had moved back into an onside position, meaning the goal was allowed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Trionda match ball, made by Adidas for this year&#8217;s World Cup, has a microchip in it that can detect when the ball has been touched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is part of Adidas&#8217; Connected Ball Technology, allowing precise data such as every individual touch of the ball with a boot or hand to be immediately sent to the Video Assistant Referee in real time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adidas say the technology &#8220;enables faster in-game officiating decisions and more insight into gameplay than ever before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Svanberg&#8217;s goal was awarded, replays showed a flat line sensor on the screen that had a spike as the ball passed Isak&#8217;s outstretched foot, confirming that he got a touch on the ball that was not necessarily obvious to the naked eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How does the technology work?published at 11:20 BST 11:20 BST Sweden 5-1 Tunisia Jonty ColmanBBC Sport Journalist Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-737965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}