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Mark Geiger got selected to do the France-Nigeria match, the first time a US referee has done a World Cup knockout round match. Granted, it's France Nigeria, where his job will be to mostly console frustrated Nigerians after all the goals are scored.
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And the bar again, and Brazil is through.
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And the Eddy Curry trade ends with Doug McDermott:
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Sets up almost perfectly for a Brazil-Germany-Netherlands-Argentina semi.
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So here we are. CONMEBOL quarter Brazil (A1) v Chile (B2) Colombia (C1) v Uruguay (D2) CAF quarter France (E1) v Nigeria (F2) Germany (G1) v Algeria (H2) CONCACAF quarter Netherlands (B1) v Mexico (A2) Costa Rica (D1) v Greece (C2) If Argentina doesn't win... quarter Argentina (F1) v Switzerland (E2) Belgium (H1) v USA (G2)
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Maybe this should be in the "Gam" thread, but how are the number of spots in the World Cup by geography assigned? I assume it has something to do with world rankings, but does it change ever? It's pretty much just assigned randomly by FIFA according to relative strength of each federation, with the host federation usually picking up a freebie. They've lately been splitting bids between federations and having a playoff for the final couple spots, and this cycle there was a CONCACAF-OFC split (Mexico-New Zealand) and a CONMEBOL-AFC split (Uruguay-Jordan).
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On the flip side, teams eliminated... UEFA: Spain, Italy, England, Croatia, Portugal, Bosnia-Herzegovina and maybe Russia CAF: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon and maybe Algeria AFC: Australia, Japan, Iran and likely South Korea CONMEBOL: Ecuador CONCACAF: Honduras
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UEFA advancing teams: Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, and maybe Russia CONMEBOL advancing teams: Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Uruguay CONCACAF advancing teams: USA, Mexico, and Costa Rica CAF advancing teams: Nigeria and maybe Algeria AFC advancing teams: 1% chance of South Korea.
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Potentially, we have a road of Belgium, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany/Brazil. That's as bad as it gets. Chile potentially has a road of Brazil, Colombia, Germany/France, and Netherlands. Russia/Algeria potentially has a road of Germany, France, Brazil, and Netherlands. The USMNT is about in as good a place as they can be if the worst case scenario is Argentina by the quarters.
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A cross in a driving rain. Accuracy is a little tricky.
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Portugoal.
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Bradley is probably the best player on the team, and he's borderline top 50 internationally. Keep in mind there are a lot of teams and a lot of players on each team.
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US wins 2-1, goals by Davis and Gonzalez.
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Yep, should be fun. At least a lot more fun than the other quarter decided: Netherlands-Mexico and Costa Rica-Greece.
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Man this group is hot garbage.
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If I had to rate the teams coming into the knockout phase through this point, I'm thinking 1. Netherlands 2. France 3. Brazil 4. Germany 5. Colombia 6. Argentina 7. Chile 8. Belgium 9. G2 (USA) 10. Costa Rica 11. Mexico 12. Uruguay 13. Switzerland (E2) 14. Russia (H2) 15. Nigeria (F2) 16. Ivory Coast (C2)
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Aaaand it's tied.
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That said, Ivory Coast has been pretty clearly the worst team in the group. Outplayed all 3 games, but caught Japan in some kind of weird Drogba fear for about 10 minutes and stole 3 points.
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Figures that in the most exciting world cup in my memory, the most boring team in the entire field can somehow advance.
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At least the goal forces Italy to actually try to play a few moments of soccer today.
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Just knock both these teams out, and let the Portugal/Ghana winner into the knockout round instead.
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I thought this was a soccer game, not an olympic diving competition.
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What is HR? I'm guessing he's going with Herzegovina instead of Bosnia that they're referring to them as on ESPN. Except that's neither Bosnia nor Herzegovina.
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Netherlands could potentially have a Mexico-Costa Rica path to the semis.
