Thursday, June 17, 2010

France gives up... again

Ah, the French.  I picked the 1998 World Cup (the only one to do so), picked them to repeat in 2002 only to see them succumb to lowly Senegal and quit the rest of the way, and need them to win the 2006 World Cup to finish 3rd (darm that ZZ!).  But once again, France faltered and quit in the end (when have the French NOT quit?).  So bad that not even Thierry Henry made it into the game.  Hope Henry can crack the NY Red Bulls starting lineup.

In Groups A & B, all eight teams are still alive and no one has advanced yet.  Here are the Group A & B scenarios:

[GROUP STANDINGS]
Group A      
    P W L D F A GD Pts
URU 2 1-0-1 3 0  3  4
MEX 2 1-0-1 3 1  2  4
FRA 2 0-1-1 0 2 -2  1
RSA 2 0-1-1 1 4 -3  1

***Group A Scenarios
~REMAIN: URU-MEX, RSA-FRA
~NOTE: MEX>FRA, URU=FRA, RSA=MEX, URU>RSA
y-URU W/T
y-MEX W
x-URU W/T or L&RSA-FRA T or (GD/GF/HH) L&RSA W or (GD/GF/DL) L&FRA W
x-MEX W/T or L&RSA-FRA T or (GD/GF/HH) L&FRA W or (GD/GF/DL) L&RSA W
x-(GD/GF/HH) FRA W&MEX L or (GD/GF/DL) W&URU L
x-(GD/GF/HH) RSA W&URU L or (GD/GF/DL) W&MEX L

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Group B      
    P W L D F A GD Pts
ARG 2 2-0-0 5 1  4  6
KOR 2 1-1-0 3 4 -1  3
GRE 2 1-1-0 2 3 -1  3
NGA 2 0-2-0 1 3 -2  0

***Group B Scenarios
~REMAIN: NGA-KOR, GRE-ARG
~NOTE: ARG>KOR, KOR>GRE, GRE>NGA
y-ARG W/T or (GD/GF/HH) L
y-(GD/GF/HH) KOR W&ARG L
y-GRE W3+&KOR L/T or (GD/GF/HH/DL) GRE W3+&KOR W
x-ARG W/T or L2-&KOR T/L or (GD/GF/HH/DL) L&KOR W
x-KOR W&GRE T/L or T&GRE L or (GD/GF/HH/DL) W&GRE W or (GD/GF/HH) T&GRE T or (GD/GF/HH/DL) L&GRE L
x-GRE W&KOR T/L or T&KOR L or (GD/GF/HH/DL) W&KOR W or (GD/GF/HH) T&KOR T or (GD/GF/HH/DL) L&KOR L
x-NGA W&GRE L

Legend
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x – Advance to R16
y – Win Group
z - Eliminated

W – Win (by any margin)
L – Loss (by any margin)
T - Tie
W# - Win by # goals
L# - Lose by # goals
#+ (by # goals or more)
#- (by # goals or less)

REMAIN – Matches left of interest
NOTE – Match results of interest

Order of tiebreakers:
 >GD – goal differential
 >GF – goals for
 >HH – head-to-head (pts, gd, gf)
 >DL  - draw lots

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