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KilleyMc on 24 June 2018

Russia 0-1 Uruguay
Egypt 2-0 Saudi Arabia
Portugal 1-0 Iran
Spain 2-0 Morocco



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Lafiel on 24 June 2018

Uruguay vs Russia 2-1
Saudi Arabia vs Egypt 0-4
Spain vs Morocco 2-0
Iran vs Portugal 0-1



VGPolyglot on 24 June 2018
Hiku said:
RolStoppable said:

Fair play ranking. The team with fewer yellow and red cards throughout the group stage will advance. If that's a tie, FIFA will draw lots.

 

Ka-pi96 said:

It would go to fair play record, which currently puts Japan (-3) ahead of Senegal (-5).

So if they're both going to lose they'd better avoid any cards in the process

Edit: They'd have to lose by the same score though, not just the same goal difference since goals scored come into play after goal difference. So if one lost 2-1 and the other lost 1-0 the team that lost 2-1 would finish 2nd on account of having scored 1 more goal.

That's very interesting.
That means that Japan are guaranteed to advance to the next round as long as they don't receive any more yellow cards? They can even lose the match on purpose. (Although I presume that wouldn't count as fair play if it became obvious.)

Goal differential comes before though, so if they lose by a ton it won't be good for them.



VGPolyglot on 24 June 2018
Ka-pi96 said:
Hiku said:

Oh yeah. Slipped my mind for a second.

Well, next round is sure to be interesting.

It certainly will be interesting. Would have been even more so if Colombia and Poland had drew. Then we could have had a situation where all 4 teams end with 4 points

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_E



VGPolyglot on 24 June 2018
Ka-pi96 said:
VGPolyglot said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_E

heh, that's awesome! Too bad I was only 2 during that World Cup so never got the excitement of it

I'm surprised you knew of it to be honest

My brother told me of it a  few years ago, he reads a ton of World Cup history.



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VGPolyglot on 24 June 2018
Hiku said:
VGPolyglot said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_E

Did three teams advance from the group stages?
And now it's two?

Yes, because there used to be 24 teams in the World Cup, so 16 out of 24 meant that some 3rd place teams advanced.

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VGPolyglot on 24 June 2018
Hiku said:
VGPolyglot said:

Yes, because there used to be 24 teams in the World Cup, so 16 out of 24 = 3/4, rather than now where there are 32 teams so it's 2/4.

I remember when they increased the number of teams. I thought that was good because for non-European countries, they only get to play this once every 4 years.
(I feel like Copa America doesn't quite have the same prestige as the Euro Cup, and many non American countries can't participate in it anyway.)
Didn't think about how that would affect the Round of 16, but makes sense.

I screwed up at first, only some 3rd placed teams advanced, not all.



VGPolyglot on 24 June 2018

If you want a crazy story, in the 1966 World Cup qualifying Africa, Asia and Oceania all had 1 slot combined, so almost every single team boycotted it, as a result the only 2 teams to remain were North Korea and Australia, and they ended up facing each other to determine who qualified:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(Africa,_Asia_and_Oceania)



HomokHarcos on 24 June 2018
Hiku said:
RolStoppable said:

Up to 1994 the World Cup had 24 teams, so the tournament mode was the same as it was for Euro 2016 with six groups of four and the four best third-ranked teams making the cut. 1994 also had a group where three teams finished with six points; nowadays one of them would be eliminated, but back then it didn't matter. On a related note, the World Cup used several different tournament modes and different amounts of participants, so the timespan from 1998-2022 will have been the longest by far when it comes to usage of the same tournament mode.

Sweden's best result was second place at the World Cup 1958 in Sweden.

The four best 3rd-ranked teams, I see. 

And yeah, I edited in (in my lifetime) as I've watched them in every World/Euro Cup since then. Even with Zlatan they never seemed to reach the same level they had in WC 94. I didn't feel like they were mainly just lucky. I thought they deserved that bronze medal. And because the final between Brazil and Italy was fairly dull (0-0) until the penalty shootout drama, I also found some of Sweden's knockout phase matches more entertaining.

By the way, going back to what you said about "If Colombia and Senegal play a draw while Japan loses to Poland, then Japan will be eliminated because Colombia has the better goal difference.", I guess that means it doesn't matter that Japan beat Colombia?
Some tournaments prioritize who won between two tied teams before it's decided by goal difference.

3 situations would guarantee Japan advance.

1.Japan beat Poland

2.Japan draw Poland

3.Senegal beat Colombia.

But if Japan lose and Colombia draw Senegal, Colombia will advance due to the better goal difference. In UEFA rules though Japan would have been the team that advances.



pattyboy60 on 24 June 2018

Uruguay 1-1 Russia
Saudi Arabia 0-1 Egypt
Iran 1-1 Portugal
Spain 2-0 Morrocco