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VAR Saves  Scotland - At least For the time being!!

Offline Blackpool Rock

Suicidal defending

Two absolute gifts, completely unnecessary.
The VAR Gods are in their favour and ruled the 2nd out, if they don't qualify for the knockout rounds they can't complain about bad luck or not getting decisions this time  :unknown:

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VAR Saves  Scotland - At least For the time being!!
Yeah another 65 minutes to fuck it up  :rolleyes:

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Some of the players looked like they were dancing on the touch line

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That was  a terrible VAR decision the Scotch player kicked the Brazillian  and could have had a red card for a poor rugby tackle

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That was  a terrible VAR decision the Scotch player kicked the Brazillian  and could have had a red card for a poor rugby tackle

Behave. It was a foul but we got a break that it went to VAR.

Plenty possession in the first half but did nothing with it.  Seems like every pass received was by a player who was static with his back to goal, way too easy to defend. 

Would have been happy to get in at the break just 1 down.

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Behave. It was a foul but we got a break that it went to VAR.
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Well all the independents (ie not Scotch) seem to agree it wasnt a foul and the tame ref described them as "fortunate" in that perhaps the VAR decided that as Vinicus hadnt touched the ball he wasnt in control when HE WAS kicked

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2 down and Scotland still have a 63% chance of going through
3 down and it drops to 43%
4 down and its only 27%


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2 down and Scotland still have a 63% chance of going through
3 down and it drops to 43%
4 down and its only 27%
They just put up the stats and it was almost 50/50 if Scotland lost by 3 goals

Looking at the table they have dropped to 6th and there are 6 teams below them left to play who I believe will all leapfrog Scotland if they can get a win in their 3rd game, Cape Verde and Belgium do it with a draw.

There are 4 teams still to play above them who could drop below Scotland if they lose heavily by 2 or more goals

What this doesn't factor in however is some of these teams getting results may mean they perhaps don't finish 3rd in their group but 2nd and another team with a worse record replace them who may then be below Scotland  :unknown:

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They just put up the stats and it was almost 50/50 if Scotland lost by 3 goals

Looking at the table they have dropped to 6th and there are 6 teams below them left to play who I believe will all leapfrog Scotland if they can get a win in their 3rd game, Cape Verde and Belgium do it with a draw.

There are 4 teams still to play above them who could drop below Scotland if they lose heavily by 2 or more goals

What this doesn't factor in however is some of these teams getting results may mean they perhaps don't finish 3rd in their group but 2nd and another team with a worse record replace them who may then be below Scotland  :unknown:

The stats I quoted were those given by BBC in game commentator - back in the studio they had a different set I think one was before the tournament and one was after the second round of games
Several of the 3rd placed teams below Scotland have the bottom teams to play in their final match
Because of the way positions are calculated (with head to head trumping goals) some of the games are dead rubbers for one or both sides
A win for Czech republic v Mexico  would mean they leapfrog Scotland but whatever the result (even a 10 -nil loss) Mexico will still top the group. Similarly Ecuador v Germany
Why shouldnt Mexico and Germany put out 2nd XIs ?


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3-0 Brazil. Maybe the Jocks are going home

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Steve Clarke seems sure Scotland are out

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so (with apologies to Skinner Baddiel and the lightning Seeds lets have a chorus of
They're coming home
They'te coming home
Scotlands coming home