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The third place qualifier situation |
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A table goes by points no matter how they're earned, can't really be much fairer.
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Albania have won a game and aren't going through whilst Portugal draw 3 times and are through. How is that fair?
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A table goes by points no matter how they're earned, can't really be much fairer.
Unlucky Albania. |
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Maybe not, but there's no way around it with this format. That's why they should change it to 32 so your qualification from a group depends only on what happens in your group.
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So it's:
Croatia v Portugal Germany v Slovakia France v Group E team, if they qualify, otherwise Northern Ireland Wales v Turkey, if they qualify, otherwise Northern Ireland Last edited by klunk : 22-06-2016 at 20:40. Reason: clarity |
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#156 |
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So it's:
Croatia v Portugal Germany v Slovakia France v Group E team, if they qualify, otherwise Northern Ireland Wales v Turkey, if they qualify, otherwise Northern Ireland |
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I wouldn't fancy any of them against France.
Belgium could still finish third in group E, mind. I wouldn't bet on them either, but they could beat France on a good day. |
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Republic vs France
Northen Ireland vs Wales As it stands you couldn't make this up Henry as a pundit? |
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It may have been mentioned here already, but how did they decide which 3rd place team plays in which game in the next round? Was there a draw?
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Republic vs France
Northen Ireland vs Wales As it stands you couldn't make this up Henry as a pundit? |
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Blimey. If England beat Iceland there will be two British national teams in separate quarter-finals!
(...and then none in the semi-finals )
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It may have been mentioned here already, but how did they decide which 3rd place team plays in which game in the next round? Was there a draw?
Depending on which combination of best 4 groups there is, depends on which of the select 4 group winners play the top 4 3rd places. See the combinations table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_E...knockout_phase |
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It's quite an interesting maths problem, actually, if that's your thing. How to set it up to guarantee that teams from each group are fairly evenly distributed on either side of the draw, whatever the group results. Because you want to avoid having teams from the same group meeting too soon.
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Thanks. I'm not gonna lie, that actually made my head hurt.
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There's been a lot of disapproval with regards to the 3rd place system, some of it justified perhaps.
But I bet you NOBODY on the island of Ireland is complaining at the moment.
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There's been a lot of disapproval with regards to the 3rd place system, some of it justified perhaps.
But I bet you NOBODY on the island of Ireland is complaining at the moment. ![]() ![]() No one in Portugal complaining either. |
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There's been a lot of disapproval with regards to the 3rd place system, some of it justified perhaps.
But I bet you NOBODY on the island of Ireland is complaining at the moment. ![]() I think it devalues the tournament, myself. After all the qualification groups and all these group games we still have nearly a third of UEFA in the competition. It's more like Big Brother than a football tournament, with this week's worst team being eliminated. |
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