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[bukie]

Yesterday, Germany and USA sandbagged their games a bit by resting players, knowing their spot in the knockouts was secure.

It appears Norway will be doing the same despite having the potential to win their group with a win. Instead, they'll rest their starters and prep for the knockouts.

The winner of that group will play most likely Sweden and then a Germany-Paraguay winner. The runner up in the group will get Ivory Coast and then the Brazil-Japan winner.

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[Derwood]

Is Mexico playing Portugal?

[soccer10k]

Uruguay has to be in the running for most disappointing WC. In a group with Saudi Arabia and you finish 3rd.

[JHBulls]

Thrilled for Cape Verde. I feel like Messi will be stat padding in that match though lol. 

[javy knows my name]

59 minutes ago, soccer10k said:

Uruguay has to be in the running for most disappointing WC. In a group with Saudi Arabia and you finish 3rd.

It was looking like Ecuador would have that distinction till yesterday. But yeah. Ouch.

[Derwood]

I'm disappointed by the lack of rainbow flags at this Egypt/Iran game

[UMFan83]

If anyone is still up, the end of this Egypt-Iran match has been some of the best action of the tournament so far.  Can’t eveN do it justice but lots of swings back and forth as Belgium and Egypt were going back and forth for 1st place, then Iran thought they jumped Egypt with a stoppage time goal, only to be called offsides several minutes later. Then Iran had 2-3 really great chances in the final minutes but couldn’t put one in. 
 

Iran is still alive for 3rd place but nothing guaranteed. 

[soccer10k]

Iran thought they scored the winning goal in added time but it gets ruled out due to offside. The rare instance where we remember the rule is the second-to-last defender because the goalie was further up the field than the offside player.

Belgium wins the group, Egypt is second. Iran could still advance but they need one of the following to happen:

Austria and Algeria to not tie
Congo to not beat Uzbekistan
Croatia to lose to Ghana and Panama to not beat England by 3+ goals

[soccer10k]

Boy the bracket is sure shaping up nicely for Argentina. They get Cape Verde in the R32 followed by Egypt or Australia in the R16. Then in the QF it's Switzerland, Algeria/Austria/Iran, Colombia/Portugal or Ghana.

Compare that to France and Germany who will likely play each other in the R16 and then likely Netherlands or Morocco in the QF.

[soccer10k]

This Colombia-Portugal game has been great. If I didn't know the standings, I would assume Colombia needed to win to win the group based on how hard they're going for a goal at the end.

Also, Congo advances which officially eliminates Korea. The final spot will go to Algeria if they tie Austria and Iran if there's a winner in the Austria-Algeria game.

Edited Sunday at 01:29 AM by soccer10k

[Derwood]

Eight African teams through to the knockout round

[Derwood]

Extra time in Algeria v Austria was horsefeathers insane

[soccer10k]

I was not expecting 3-3 from Austria-Algeria today.

[soccer10k]

2 hours ago, Derwood said:

Eight African teams through to the knockout round

9 of the 10 made it through now that Algeria is through.

[UMFan83]

Absolutely insane. So far the 2 craziest games have been late night matches.

I feel bad for Iran, that’s gotta be brutal 

[JHBulls]

If Iran was summed up in one song tonight it would be Hokey Pokey.

Madness. It seemed like both had an agreement and Algeria just went rogue at the end for some sweet revenge. But then Austria score a minute later. Wow. 

[Derwood]

Field of 32 breakdown:

Europe: 13
Africa: 9
South America: 5
North America: 3
Asia: 1
Oceania: 1

Edited Sunday at 04:06 AM by Derwood

[Thurman Merman]

Just now, Derwood said:

Field of 32 breakdown:

Europe: 14
Africa: 9
South America: 5
North America: 2
Asia: 1
Oceania: 1

Last I checked mexico and canada are both north America 

[Derwood]

1 minute ago, Thurman Merman said:

Last I checked mexico and canada are both north America 

You quoted me before my edit

[JHBulls]

3 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Field of 32 breakdown:

Europe: 13
Africa: 9
South America: 5
North America: 3
Asia: 1
Oceania: 1

Not for 20 years my man! Australia are in Asia

[Derwood]

4 minutes ago, JHBulls said:

Not for 20 years my man! Australia are in Asia

I don't care what continent they play for, I care about what continent they're located on

Edited Sunday at 04:13 AM by Derwood

[JHBulls]

2 minutes ago, Derwood said:

I don't care what continent they play for, I care about what continent they're located on

Somehow this makes not having Mexico and Canada in North America even worse. 

[UMFan83]

22 minutes ago, JHBulls said:

If Iran was summed up in one song tonight it would be Hokey Pokey.

Madness. It seemed like both had an agreement and Algeria just went rogue at the end for some sweet revenge. But then Austria score a minute later. Wow. 

The wild thing is there was no incentive really for Algeria to score.  They had full control of the ball and Austria was not making any attempt to get the ball back.  By scoring Algeria temporarily put themselves in a match against Spain in the R32 instead of Switzerland.  Austria bailed them out and theirselves out by equalizing.

[soccer10k]

Teams advanced out of total teams in the field

Asia: 2 of 9 (oof)
Africa: 9 of 10
CONCACAF: 3 of 6
CONMEBOL: 5 of 6
Oceania: 0 of 1
UEFA: 13 of 16

Outstanding tournament for Africa. Probably par for the course for UEFA and South America. CONCACAF probably expected that result considering the teams that were in the field. Huge disappointment for Asia. Not that they would have expected to get 6 or 7, but only getting 2 is rough. Iran got unlucky but Korea laid an egg.