Football team for the first time in the history of the world championships reached the playoffs due to fewer yellow cards. Rule with spectacles fair play (fair play) FIFA adopted only in 2016.

For every yellow card - minus 1 point, for red - minus 3, for straight red - minus 4, yellow and straight red - minus 5.

In Group H Colombia beat Senegal in the last round (1: 0) and came in first with 6 points, while Senegal and Japan (which lost to Poland 0: 1) scored 4 points and fought for second place.

Senegal received 6 yellow for the three rounds of the group stage, Japan - 4. Thus, Japan from the second place reached the 1/8 finals.

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