South Korea vs Japan 2018 (Korea-Republic Japan 2018 VIDEO BELOW)
Final score and result:- Korea vs Japan 2-1 (Seung-Woo Lee, Hwang Hee chan/Ueda)
Asian Games 2018 Final- 1 September, 2018
Heung-Min Son avoids military service as his two assists help South Korea win gold at the Asian Games
For the first time in the history of the World Cup, we had four Arab teams participating in the tournament. Unfortunately, none of them were able to progress to the round of 16, a bit disappointing given the expectations from Hector Cuper’s Egypt, who had Mohamed Salah in their ranks. Morocco played well, but were … Read more
Senegal became the first team to be knocked out of the World Cup on the fair play rule earlier today (June 28, 2018). The Teranga Lions lost 1-0 to Colombia in Samara and Japan’s loss by the same score to already eliminated Poland in Volgograd left both the sides on four points each.
Tiebreakers
Points in all games:- Senegal (4), Japan (4)
Goal Difference:- Senegal (0), Japan (0)
Goals For:- Senegal (4), Japan (4)
Head to Head Points, Goal Difference and Goals for:- All equal because of the Senegal 2-2 Japan game
With these six equal, it went to the Fair-Play tiebreaker
Japan had collected four yellow cards in their three games. Senegal had collected six, which saw Japan progress.
If the two teams had been equal on this aspect as well, we would’ve needed a coin flip to decide who progressed.