World Cup: Group H: Japan vs. Poland, Senegal vs. Colombia; 6/28/2018

[Havre]

And risk conceding? Would have done the same playing for Japan myself.

 

[mouser]

Wonder if that's Valderrama's real hair still

 

[N o o d l e s]

Shitty

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Colombia&Japan go through

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Very happy with the outcome of this group.

 

[maclean]

Nah. Senegal would have 5 points and Columbia would have a better goal difference.

Edit: You posted what I posted. I thought you were replying if Senegal ties. My bad.

And *I* thought *you* were posting if Senegal ties

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Senegal eliminated because they have two more yellow cards... ouch!

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Of course. Doesn't matter if you touch the ball first with a tackle like that. So very much a chance.

He clearly got the ball first then cluttered into the defender... it's never a penalty.

Tough, brutal for Senegal to go out like that though. Deserved much better.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Not too often you see advancement decided by fair play.

When's the last time that was the deciding factor?

 

[Luigi Habs]

Eliminated because of 2 more yellow cards. That’s insane.

 

[Corto]

I mean...

Okay, so Japan manager went to rest players and sat players on yellow cards. He rested SEVEN players, in a game that was deciding whether they go through.
Absolute madman.

Glad they made it though, Colombia and Senegal played awful, boring, scared... Neither deserved to win that game.

 

[Hulide]

Not too often you see advancement decided by fair play.

When's the last time that was the deciding factor?

Never before.. first time..

 

[canuckster19]

Not too often you see advancement decided by fair play.

When's the last time that was the deciding factor?

It used to be world rankings, it was changed to fair play only recently.

 

[Natey]

Not too often you see advancement decided by fair play.

When's the last time that was the deciding factor?

TSN annoucer said never has a team been eliminated so harsh. So I don't know, provably never. There have been draws before which sucks even more.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

 

[Ivan13]

Not too often you see advancement decided by fair play.

When's the last time that was the deciding factor?

Never.

 

[canuckster19]

Rwandan genocide? Boko Haram?

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

That's gutting.

 

[N o o d l e s]

Japan in the KO's is super lame

 

[mouser]

Not too often you see advancement decided by fair play.

When's the last time that was the deciding factor?

This is the first World Cup to include the Fair Play tiebreaker. It wasn't in place for Brazil 2014.

Under the 2014 rules they would have drawn lots / flipped a coin.

 

[IamNotADancer]

Here is the issue I have with the "fair play" thing. Depending on who the referee is, their at times subjective decisions can decide whether a team advances or not. This isn't a black or white thing, who has more points, more goals.
This is a "referee A decides this obstruction was worthy of a booking, while referee B thought a warning might be enough" sort of thing, and it reeks.

Not a big fan of this. If you go even further it actually makes it easier to manipulate games in a much more drastic outcome.

 

[Eisen]

TSN annoucer said never has a team been eliminated so harsh. So I don't know, provably never. There have been draws before which sucks even more.

Yeah. to get eliminated by the draw is harder in my opinion.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Here is the issue I have with the "fair play" thing. Depending on who the referee is, their at times subjective decisions can decide whether a team advances or not. This isn't a black or white thing, who has more points, more goals.
This is a "referee A decides this obstruction was worthy of a booking, while referee B thought a warning might be enough" sort of thing, and it reeks.

Not a big fan of this. If you go even further it actually makes it easier to manipulate games in a much more drastic outcome.

The alternative as it was just 4 years ago would be a draw... so this is much less subjective. Absolutely gut wrenching for Senegal but there's not much options.

 

[Eisen]

Here is the issue I have with the "fair play" thing. Depending on who the referee is, their at times subjective decisions can decide whether a team advances or not. This isn't a black or white thing, who has more points, more goals.
This is a "referee A decides this obstruction was worthy of a booking, while referee B thought a warning might be enough" sort of thing, and it reeks.

Not a big fan of this. If you go even further it actually makes it easier to manipulate games in a much more drastic outcome.

I agree, but you have to use something. It's the very last tie breaker.

 

[SenorDingDong]

Here is the issue I have with the "fair play" thing. Depending on who the referee is, their at times subjective decisions can decide whether a team advances or not. This isn't a black or white thing, who has more points, more goals.
This is a "referee A decides this obstruction was worthy of a booking, while referee B thought a warning might be enough" sort of thing, and it reeks.

Not a big fan of this. If you go even further it actually makes it easier to manipulate games in a much more drastic outcome.

It would have been flipping a coin 4 years ago... this is way better.

I think this is a very rare circumstance too.