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Day 13: Ghana vs Uruguay | South Korea vs Portugal | Cameroon vs Brazil | Serbia vs Switzerland

Cal?

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African teams have given good account of themselves. Teams that didn't even qualify this year, Egypt, Nigeria, Mali, Ivory Coast, Algeria all could come in next world cup, and give teams trouble
You could say the same about Italy, Ukraine, Sweden & co.
 

Oly Francis

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Marquinos as a left back was Brazil's best player tonight :lol: (I'm barely joking).
 

Samid

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Doesn’t enter into it. Points, goal difference, goals scored, bookings, drawing of lots
Tie-breaking criteria for group play
The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows:[210]
  1. Points obtained in all group matches:
    • Win: 3 points;
    • Draw: 1 point;
    • Loss: 0 points;
  2. Goal difference in all group matches;
  3. Number of goals scored in all group matches;
  4. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
  5. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
  6. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
  7. Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction can be applied to a player in a single match):
    • Yellow card: −1 point;
    • Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
    • Direct red card: −4 points;
    • Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
  8. Drawing of lots.
 

Sandikan

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How did the commentator think the Serbian guy was getting a second yellow there. For being clattered!
 

Cal?

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Just watch the Euros then, that’s clearly all you’re interested in. The same boring teams with the same players over and over and over and over and over again :yawn:
Why don't you just watch the African Cup of Nations, Asian Cup etc?

The point is the World Cup should be about having the best teams in it.
 

Bole Top

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Switzerland are terribly boring and most likely won't trouble Portugal, but it's always funny to see these bottling thugs go out.
 

Inter Yer Nan

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So Brazil, Argentina, France, Spain, Portugal have all lost to teams ranked under the USA in the world rankings but England are terrible and having an awful cup because of a 0-0 draw vs. a team in the second round? It’s sometimes tough finding reason.
 

bosnian_red

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Post match camera man doesn't know that we just want to have Shaqiri and Xhaka-cam, nothing else
 

R'hllor

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If these pricks had 5% of Croats attitude towards national team, i might not call them all kinds of names.
 

No Idea For Nickname

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If Switzerland scored one more, would that made them win the group and send Brazil in the side of draw where Spain is?
That would have been fun.
 

TheLittleOne

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Serbia and Switzerland really don't like each other, do they?
lets say we have history...we have a couple of albanian players. There are many serbs living in swityerland you would think they would be a little more gratefull but they have such a superiority complex for no reason ...
 

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Why don't you just watch the African Cup of Nations, Asian Cup etc?

The point is the World Cup should be about having the best teams in it.
Wrong. It’s about each continents best facing off to crown the best.

Each continents best is decided by way of a qualification campaign, and that is how we ended up where we have, with 32 deserving teams competing. Not Europe and some invitations in the post that are deemed “worthy”