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And goal differential as tiebreaker creates an incentive where just winning isn't enough


I think as long as you can’t gain extra time by playing deliberately badly, this is largely okay? it’s good to want to teams to go out and try to hammer each other rather than narrowly shithouse a 1-0, as has been very common in recent major tournaments. even so, a lot of big tournaments have switched to head-to-head tiebreakers recently




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