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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't think most people have seen the brackets. The US is in Group F with Chile, Sweden, and Thailand. The top TWO teams advance.  If a team wins all three matches there are NO goal differential used. They would have 9 points (3 points for a win and 1 for a tie). If the US beats Sweden they will end up in first place. If the US loses to Sweden they will end up in second place and advance. The ONLY scenario where goal differential matters is if they tie Sweden. Then they would use goal differential. And because there are 24 teams to start and they have to go down to 16 teams then 4 third place teams will advance as well. This is different than World Cup where 32 teams start and only the top two teams advance.

However, if you look at the knock out stage, the US got a really easy draw!  24 teams start out 
First place of Group F (US, Sweden, Thailand, Chile) plays 2nd place team of Group B (Germany, Spain, South Africa, China)

The SECOND place team in Group F will play the SECOND place team of E (New Zealand, Cameron, Canada, Netherlands). This is different than in the men's word cup because twop third place teams will advance.

So there was NO reason to score over 10 goals. And the celebrating that went along with it is ridiculous. 
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And to continue looking strategically at the brackets. It might be better for the US to finish second in group F. If they win they will play either Spain or Germany- two tough teams who are playing right now. Then if they win they will probably have to play France (they are hosting so have huge advantage).  So running up the score strategically was an awful idea. It is like another poster said the US team plays checkers while others play chess. No way is Sweden going to score over 13 even if Thailand walks off the field. So people need to stop bringing up goal differential as a reason they ran up the score. Strategically it was the wrong thing to do. [/quote]

On the other hand, some teams play better as underdogs, some teams play better when they're on a roll. That can play into whether one wants to finish 2nd or 3rd in Olympics badminton... (I think it's badminton that got all the bad press for countries basically throwing matches to try to get easier paths through the finals).[/quote]

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