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Senegal became the last team to be eliminated from the World Cup this year after losing 1-0 to Colombia in Samara. On the other hand, Japan, who led the group, finished second thanks to a better "Fair Play" than Senegal, third.
Japan also lost their match against Poland 1-0 in Volgograd. The results mean that Colombia finished first with six points in three games, while Japan finished second with four points out of three, the same as Senegal. But, African nations have lost due to a bad disciplinary record. Senegal had six yellow cards while Japan had 5. yellow cards
After being over 70 minutes left, Colombian Yerry Mina scored in the 74th minute to put his team ahead, which was enough for Colombia. tournament. Colombia is the only nation that has progressed to the next stage of this World Cup after losing its first match.
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In the other group match, the Polish Jan Bednarek scored in the 59th minute on a set-piece in order to make sure that Poland was eliminated from the World Cup on a high score
They qualified for the round of 16 after beating Colombia and drawing with Senegal in the previous two games, thus reversing expectations early in the tournament.
Colombia will face England while Japan will face England Group G dominates Belgium
Colombia, Japan in 16, sorrow for Senegal [19659002] In Group G, Tunisia wins 2-1 against Panama while Belgium dominates the group Victoire 1-0 against the Three Lions in Kaliningrad
The goals of Fakhreddine Ben Yousseff and Wahbi Khazri in semifinals allowed Tunisia to impose 2-1 against Panama in the last Group G match in Saransk. , playing football fluently and composed, dominated the match but were trailed. He was cleared 1-0 at halftime after a shot by Jose Luis Rodriguez of Panama, who deflected Tunisian defender Ybadine Meriah in the 33rd minute. minute.
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After several chances in the first half, Tunisia took six minutes to badert after the restart. Ben Yousseff fired a good center from Khazri to split the ball close up. Khazri, who had always seemed dangerous, was forced in the 66th minute to run without scoring on a center of defender Oussama Haddadi to open a shot on goal and help Tunisia to go 2-1 in front
Group G, Tunisia sulk Panama
In the other match, the beautiful end of Adnan Januzaj early in the second period gave Belgium a 1-0 win over the United States. England to secure first place in Group G The result means that Belgium, which has won all three group matches, finished at nine points while England remained at six points from three games .
Japan's only Asian team in 16, no African
Japan finishes second in Group H and faces Belgium in round of 16 (Reuters Photo)
Japan and Colombia are the last two teams to qualify for the Round of 32 World Cup.
Japan was beaten by Poland 1-0 while Co Lombia overtook Senegal with the same score. However, thanks to a better record of "fair play", Asians have beaten Africans in the last 16. Earlier, Japan and Senegal played a 2-2 draw to cancel the head-to-head reasoning. It was the first time that the qualification was decided on fair play in a World Cup.
Japan only committed 28 fouls of their three games in the group – the least by any team. They were handed only five yellow cards from their three games.
Today's Group H results also mean that no African team has qualified for the Round of 16 World Cup while Japan is the only team to go through Asia. 19659002] No African in the last 16 for the first time in 36 years
Senegal lost a place in the pre-quarter World Cup because of the regulations # Fair Play & # 39; (AP Photo)
0 loss to Colombia in Samara means that no African team will progress in the last 16 for the first time since 1982.
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Egypt (Group A) and Morocco (Group B) finished bottom of their groups while Nigeria (Group D), Tunisia (Group G) and Senegal (Group H).
10 teams from Europe, four from South America and one from Asia and North America made turn 16 years of group stages.
Germany is the biggest name missing from Europe while Senegal is the largest in Africa
17 changes made by England and the United States. Belgium combined
Belgium made nine changes while England made eight (Reuters Photo)
combined for their Group G match in Kaliningrad on Thursday. Both teams have already qualified for the knockout stages and this match is a mess in terms of qualification.
Also, if we take into account the permutations and future combinations, the team arriving in second position of the group arrangements. So, perhaps that could lead to the radical decision of Gareth Southgate and Roberto Martinez to make a complete overhaul and lose the game and give the game time to marginal players until now.
last match against Panama while Belgium made nine of their last match. Only Jordan Pickford, John Stones and Ruben Loftus-Cheek started for the Three Lions while Thibaut Courtois and Dedryck Boyata were the only survivors of the Red Devils in the match against Tunisia
. Roy Hodgson made nine matches between Uruguay and Costa Rica in 2014. Thursday's English team was also the second youngest starter of any major tournaments with an average age of 25 years and 251 days . The first is against Sweden at the 2002 World Cup – 25 years and 207 days
England and Belgium also meet for the first time since 1990. 28 years ago, the volley of David Platt in the 120th minute Ben Youssef scored the 2500th goal in the history of the World Cup (Reuters Photo)
Many records were made at the meeting of Group G between Panama and Tunisia, this which turned out to be the last game of the group stage of the World Cup.
Ybadine Meriah's goal for Tunisia gave Panama the lead in Saransk. The goal was the 50th goal against his side in the history of the World Cup. It was also the ninth goal of the World Cup this year – a record.
The goal also meant that each team had scored at least twice this year at the World Cup. It's happened for the first time in the history of the tournament.
Moving to Tunisia now, Ben Youssef's goal for Tunisia was the 2500th World Cup goal up to now. Lucien Laurent scored the first goal against Meixco in 1930. Rob Rensenbrink of Netehrlands scored the 1000th against Scotland in 1978, Argentine Claudio Caniggia scored 1500th against Nigeria and Swede Marcus Allback scored the 2000 against England in 2006.
Wahab Khazri also became the only player to score two goals and to register two pbades up to now at this year's tournament
Tunisia's win 2 -1 against Panama was also their first World Cup victory in 40 years.
Record of Belgium
Belgium won all three group matches for the second consecutive time in World Cup (Reuters Photo)
Belgium has retained its impressive World Cup despite the nine changes made to his starting lineup England Thursday
The Red Devils beat England 1-0 and the goal was the ninth Belgium scored in this year's tournament – the most by n & # 39; Any team up to now. They scored three goals against Panama, five against Tunisia and one against England.
Romelu Lukaku scored the most goals for them. Striker Manchester United, second on the list of goals scored by Cristiano Ronaldo, has scored four goals so far, two victories against Panama and Tunisia
. won all three group games at the 2014 and 2018 World Cups.
