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Originally Posted by Notorious Honey Badger
Unlike the Turkey loss this one doesn't really sting. Croatia was exciting, showed a great type of game, and deserved a better fate. They had to open it up and go balls out to get a result and Spain popped a late one. Nothing to be ashamed of. If the tie breaker was different Italy would be the one going home, so, no reason to be mad over that. Onwards to World Cup qualifying and hopefully Ukraine can give me something to cheer for tomorrow
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Ok this post is definitely after, there was no tiebreaker involved here.
Spain 7
Italy 5
Croatia 4
Ireland 0
Those are the final group standings.
Even if you're saying that Spain only scored because Croatia needed a goal against Spain and had opened it up, well then we're back to the fact that Italy did score against Spain and Croatia didn't.
Don't get me wrong, I would have preferred a Croatia victory (if I had to choose between one of them winning) but alas we now have to deal with Spain moving on.
FTR as my posts in this thread will attest to, I'm not a huge fan of the tiebreaker set up either.
EDIT: I guess I'm just trying to say I would have like to have seen Croatia advance but let's not pretend they got jobbed here. I didn't see a lot of people who were going to feel sorry for Italy if they had gone out on a stupid tiebreaker.