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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Goal differential is such a bad way to do things....buuuuuut....I can't think of a better one so I'll just stay over here in the corner and shut up.
Just seems odd that beating the brakes off a team, in a 3-game sample size, should carry that much weight.
I almost think I'd rather just see the higher seed advance - if you played well enough getting into the Cup that you got the higher seed in it, that should mean more than beating some rummy of a squad worse than the other guys did.
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There are other tie-breakers but GD is usually what's used in most scenarios. I think GD is fair in some sense because if you noticed, if Costa Rica won that game, they advanced along with Japan.... So even though Costa Rica lost 7-0 to Spain, they would have still advanced over a team that smashed them.
Germany themselves lost to Japan and is what ultimately lost them this cup, and then prayed Spain could do what they couldn't.