Unfortunately Vicario has difficulty when facing set pieces, corners or free kicks. This is his main problem. We can absolutely avoid defeat, actually we can win this!
I'm starting to wonder about Tie Breakers 2 and 3. I thought they were amongst the teams in question, not factoring in Belgium and Israel.
If Italy lose by 2, both teams GD is still same. Both group wide and head-to-head between Italy and France. Then next Tie Breaker, Italy with more goals taking into account Group. Boh. Maybe I'm wrong.
it does not look like France is doing anythung in open play to warrant them getting goals and topping the group. They looked content at least to just win. Maybe that is by design..get up early and then sit back absorb the pressure and then turn it on second half to chase a goal. I do think we can hit back on the counter int hat case but we are probably going to have to sub out a few after that first half. Italy definitely worked harder of the two teams.
If we lose with 2 goal, the GD will not be the same for both teams. France will have a better GD than us!
Yup. Official Table has France ahead now. It was overall GD and Goals, not head to head. Germany, Spain, Portugal it is barring a goal. They have themselves to blame.