Day 8 (6/26) Comfortable Wins

SUE THE T-REX HEAD, CHICAGO, IL - #8 G1-Manchester City routed #22 G4-Juventus 5-2 even though MCI's GK essentially gave away a goal to win Group G.  #7 H1-Real Madrid easily handled #143 Salzburg (FC Red Bull Salzburg) 3-0 to win Group H and with #67 H2-Al Hilal's chip over the GK in the 22' (who eventually won 2-0 over #144 H3-Pachuca), HIL took 2nd in Group H, giving Asia its first team in the Round of 16.

In a game that didn't matter, #402 G3-Al Ain score their first two goals in the tournament (the last team to score) to beat #235 G2-Wydad AC, 2-1.  Interestingly, VAR played a role in both goals, the first giving AIN a PK on the incidental contact in the box by WAC for their first goal and VAR confirming that the AIN player did not commit a foul nor had enough of a handball infraction to confirm their 2nd goal.  WAC became the 5th team to lose after scoring the first goal.

All 16 got RMA, 14 got HIL, 8 got AIN, and 7 got MCI correct.  All 16 had RMA and MCI in their R16 bracket, 15 had JUV, and 13 had HIL.  Kona Coast Sliders (14th, 54), UnrealMadrid (9th-Tied, 56), and EEChick1400 (5th-T, 59) went a perfect 16-for-16 points while Mauihammy (16th-last, 470) and Yamine I'm Gonna Win (15th, 53) picked up just 11 each.  The 3 got all 4 games correct while 6 got just 2 of 4.  12 got all four R16 teams correct while 4 got 3 of 4.  Alyonushka and Oreshnik remain tied for first with 63 pts.  Sweet Futbol Fabone got 22 group stage matches correct (of 32) while three had just 17.  Alyonushka, Oreshnik, and PoolraiderPSG (3rd-T, 60) got 14 of 16 R16 teams correct while Mauihammy had just 10.

Visited the Field Museum and was planning on spending maybe 1.5 hours there and spent nearly 4 hours with the crown jewel the actual fossil head of Sue the T-Rex (it was damaged during fossilization all those years ago, so the head on the life-size display is fixed replica head (nearly rest of the body is real fossils).  Since FC Salzburg can't use Red Bull in their name for a FIFA tournament, I wore my 2016 New York Red Bulls away jersey as a tribute.