Why 2 matches going on at the same time? Why??
so the teams dont know wats goin on with the other teams who are playing for the same spot in round of 16s…
I don’t think that’ll matter to France. Last I heard, they are either boycotting the game or even if they play, they are going back home anyways. Group B on the other hand is going down the wire.
This rule was developed after the late 70’s as the teams were able to manipulate the game based on the earlier result of the opposing teams. They just kept passing the ball to one another throughout the whole game, making it very obvious what they were doing.
The reason why is from the 1982 World Cup. See below from wikipedia. Group 2 saw one of the great World Cup upsets on the first day with the 2–1 victory of Algeria over reigning European Champions West Germany. In the final match in the group between West Germany and Austria, Algeria had already played their final group game the day before, and West Germany and Austria knew that a West German win by 1 or 2 goals would qualify them both, while a larger German victory would qualify Algeria over Austria, and a draw or an Austrian win would eliminate the Germans. After 10 minutes of all-out attack, West Germany scored through a goal by Horst Hrubesch. After the goal was scored, the two teams kicked the ball around aimlessly for the rest of the match. Chants of “Fuera, fuera” (“Out, out”) were screamed by the Spanish crowd, while angry Algerian supporters waved banknotes at the players. This performance was widely deplored, even by the German and Austrian fans. One German fan was so upset by his team’s display that he burned his German flag in disgust.[1] Algeria protested to FIFA, who ruled that the result be allowed to stand; FIFA introduced a revised qualification system at subsequent World Cups in which the final two games in each group were played simultaneously.