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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
If you flip England and Germany's path to the final then Germany is in the final and England is out in the quarters.
Losing to Spain is not a disaster at all.
The bracket is a bit of a mess when they do the weird second and third place thing. Just expand to 32 teams and 8 groups
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sure but no matter the format, your 8 groups winners are supposed to meet in the quarterfinals. Which ones meet is a random draw. England and Spain were both group winners destined to meet once they were put in Group B and C.
In the last world cup 7 of the 8 group winners made the quarterfinals, the only exception was Japan who lost to Croatia. Remember Spain let Japan win Group E in order to face Morocco.
The quarterfinals were
Netherland (A1) vs Argentina (C1)
England (B1) vs France (D1)
Croatia (F2) vs Brazil (G1)
Morocco (F1) vs Portugal (H1)