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Originally Posted by GirlySports
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)
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Sure but that's generally not the case I'd guess if you looked back. In the end you have to beat at least a couple good teams to win, but I think with the way the groups work that having the 3rd place team rule is stupid.
I will always think that. It's going to be stupid in the 48 team world cup too where 8 of 12 third place teams are going to make it into a round of 32 and some 3rd place team is going to ####bag their way to a win over a better top seed team.