Again, with that same scenario (2-1 wins for Portugal and Netherlands today):
In the final games, if one game was tied 1-1 at half, and the other game 0-0, shouldn't the team tied 0-0 agree to each score on their own net once to mutually increase their chances of advancing?
I suppose we should think further ahead, and the teams should just agree before the game to each put five goals into their own net in the first five minutes, and then play a normal game from there. However, then the teams in the otehr game would see the score in the other game, realize what was being done, and do the same thing themselves.
You heard it here first, this group will be decided by which pair of teams in the final games can score the most goals on itself.
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