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Knock out Round of 16 - who moves on?

PSP

Ruler of Western Civilization's Geeky Nerds
Well, the Finals were today, and France beat Croatia 4-2, but that score is deceiving.

Croatia had a goal scored against them on a corner kick by France that was accidentally headed into their own goal. Croatia came back to score a pretty goal to tie the game. Later in the first half, Croatia had an accidental handball in the penalty box, resulting in a penalty kick goal by France. France led at the half 2-1, but most pundits thought that Croatia outplayed the French.

France used their speed and skill to score 2 pretty goals relatively early in the 2nd half to go up 4-1. That's usually an insurmountable lead, so France played very defensively for the rest of the half. One of the aspects of playing defensively is to use your goalkeeper as an extra defender by clearing the ball back to him. On one of the passes, the French goalkeeper got a little "cheeky" (as the announcers described). He let the Croatian forward get a little too close before passing the ball to one of his defenders. In his haste, he missed one of his kicks - the Croatian forward took the ball away and scored unopposed to bring the score to 4-2.

This was the final score, so France won 4-2, but if we subtract the 3 goals that were abnormal, the score would have been 2-1 France.

You can all go back to ignoring soccer for another 4 years :biglol:
 
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