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Old 12-02-2022, 11:31 AM   #1920
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger View Post
I find that we tend to see chaos at this stage but as the tournament progresses, the top tier teams start to shine.

When was the last time an actual minnow, or even not top tier team, made it past the QF? 2002 Korea? And they only made it that far due to widespread corruption and match fixing from the officials.
Well.. Ghana is still bitter about not making it out of the quarter-finals in 2010 as we saw today.

What do we consider a minnow - Turkey was in the semi's in 2002 as well - besides that they've have only qualified for the World Cup at all in 1954.
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