To your attention the review of the day of World Cup 2018 for June 28.
The FIFA World Cup 2018 witnessed another event that had never happened before in such tournaments: for the first time the seats in one of the groups were finally distributed based on the teams' indices in the Fair Play standings.
The pioneer was Japan, which, despite losing to Poland with a minimal score (0: 1), managed to derive maximum benefit from Colombia's victory over Senegal. Since all the indicators of the Japanese and Africans in the fight for the second ticket from the group H were the same, it came down to the points in the Fair Play account (here we took into account the number of yellow and red cards received by the teams). The Japanese were more disciplined than the Senegalese (-4 points against -6, respectively), which allowed the Asian team to pass into the playoffs.
Now the "blue samurai" will meet in Rostov on July 2 with Belgium, which thanks to a great goal, Januzaya defeated England and took first place in Group G. The Belgians have landed in the extremely difficult half of the tournament grid: the share of the teams that are there are 10 world champion titles and 6 vice-champion titles. In the other half, these figures are much more modest: two titles (Spain and England) and one vice-champion.
The England squad to fight July 3 in Moscow with Colombia. Wards Jose Pekerman again rescued the head of their central defender Erri Mina, who scored the winning goal. The joy of Colombians from the third in the history of getting into the 1/8 finals is somewhat overshadowed by the state of Hamas Rodriguez, who received muscular damage.
To sweeten the bitterness from the unsuccessful performance in Russia, Tunisia did what the "Carthage Eagles" could not do with the 1978 World Cup in Argentina - to win. Africans managed to get the better of Panama - 2: 1.
Goal Ben Youssef, equalizer, became the 2500th in the history of the FIFA World Championships.
It's interesting Until now, the only time the fate of teams was determined with the help of Fair Play points at the FIFA tournament during the women's FIFA 2016 World Cup for players under 20 years. Then a more disciplined US team was given preference over France in Group C.
Next matches June 30 France - Argentina (1/8 final, Kazan) Uruguay - Portugal (1/8 finals, Sochi).