Now if South Korea were to beat Germany 1-0, and Mexico beats Sweden... that's both teams on equal goals tally and points... who'd go through? Head to head? I'm actually not sure.
According to the tiebreaker rules, if two or more teams finish with the same points, and same goal difference, then we go to the overall number of goals scored. If they're still equal after that, FIFA uses the following tie-breakers (in this order) to determine who goes through:
- head-to-head results
- goal difference in the games between the teams concerned
- goals scored by those teams in those games
- fair play (without going into too much detail: the team with less number of yellow/red cards goes through)
- FIFA draw
There's a famous quote by Gary Lineker: "Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win."
They better remember that quote today!
BOOM!! called it
Thanks for this! So it's a possible scenario after all! Because if South Korea wins the next game against Germany 1-0, they'll have exactly the same points, goal difference and goals scored, but I suppose head-to-head means the Asians go through. With all these VAR penalties, there's no reason for the Koreans to just try flood the penalty box if they have a chance and then park the Seoul bus when they're 1-0 up... you never know!
@SyGambler that'd be nice the Telegram channel, but I tend not to be active on it (I use it for work). I'll still join if there's a group though.
@Barcode_: England absolutely have to win this, Panama should be the whipping boys... but they can't rely on Kane all the time. Sterling's supposedly dropped according to a leaked team sheet, which I feel is justified. I say give Rashford full license to attack.
Underdogs having a good tourney, but I haven't been betting the right ones. Panama is tempting for a draw...
