Originally Posted by snukr:
“Not true, England would only need to win by 2 goals, if Italy win by 2 or more, then any England win would take them through if Italy beat Uruguay.”
“Not true, England would only need to win by 2 goals, if Italy win by 2 or more, then any England win would take them through if Italy beat Uruguay.”
Well I did say "if Italy beat them by 1 goal" and you've changed it to Italy beating them by 2 goals, so of course the results will be different.
So in the event of a tie on GD, does it go down to goals for? Only, with England on -2 and Costa RIca on +2, I assumed Italy beating them by 1, would take them down to +1, so England beating them by 3 goals would leave them on a tie?





Because it's still hard to gauge these matches at the moment. In the first match was it because Uruguay were so poor, or because Costa Rica were outstanding, or a mix of both? And equally, when England played Italy was it because we were both poor so it made Italy look better than they were?