How Ghana wins CzecK will affect the US- Italy game :?

Question

please explain why after Gha wins over Cze, many commentators and articles said that it helps the US team that ieven if the Italy wins over the US, the Italy team won't advance to second round and the US team won't be eliminated from advancing either. The words : " No team will advance, no team will be eliminated even if USA will loose to the Italy". Thanks.

Answer 1

Before todays game the position ware:
Italy 3 points, Czech 3 points, Ghana 0 points, USA 0 points
Pending 2 games maximum 6 points to gain (3 points for the winner or 1 point for a draw), that means any posibility is posible (the teams with most points have less points that the points pending)

After todays game the position are:
Italy 4 points, Czech 3 points, Ghana 3 points, USA 1 points
Pending 1 game maximum 3 points to gain, that means any posibility is posible: any team adding the points could exceed the team with the highest point (given a specific combination):

If in the last game, one of these combinations happens then the teams that goes to the round of 16 will be:
Italy win and will advance and Ghana will advance if at least it has a draw
Italy 7 points, Ghana 6 points, Czech 3 points, USA 1 point
Italy 7 points, Ghana 4 points, Czech 3 points, USA 2 point

Italy win and will advance and USA will advance if it has a win (a draw is not posible)
Italy 7 points, USA 4 points, Czech 3 points, Ghana 3 point

Italy draw and will advance, Ghana draw, then: Czech will advance with goal diference
Italy 5 points, Czech 4 points, Ghana 4 point USA 2 points,

Italy draw and will advance, Ghana win and will advance:
Ghana 6 point Italy 5 points, Czech 4 points, USA 1 points,

So the odd needed for USA to have a chance to pass to the next round was the result of today, but next the USA needs to win against Ghana and Italy to win against Czech, because if Ghana wins or has a draw USA doesn't have any option to go to the next round.

What would had happen if Italy had won today?
If Italy had won over USA, that would have mean: bye-bye USA and a trip to the round of 16 for Italy, because the positions would have been:
Italy 6 points, Czech 3 points, Ghana 3 points, USA 0 points
Pending 1 games maximum 3 points to gain, that means any posibility is posible for all the teams excep USA, because adding the points to Czech and Ghana the result will be that Italy, Czech and Ghana all have 6 points, and we need to know the goal diference to define the winner and runner-up of the group.

That's way we have to wait for the outcoming of the next match to know who are the teams that go to the next round.

Cross your fingers .... and go USA

Answer 2

before ghana won, the US had a must-win game with italy.
however, since ghana won against the czech, it gives US a chance to go on.

see, ghana won against the czech
however, the czech won against the US

that means if the US can beat ghana, then they can go on to the next round.

point-wise, it kind of took away points from czech because the balance of points shifted

now, if italy wins against the czech and the US wins against ghana, the points will be like:

Italy: 7
U.S.: 4
Czech republic: 3
Ghana: 3

that means the US and italy (the top two scorers) would go on

Answer 3

the group's points with one game left are Italy 4, Chech. Rep. 3, Ghana 3, USA 1. With one game left anything is possible.

Answer 4

that's going to be a tie and niether will boost probaly Ghana will score first talked about by ability of the US in the 2d 0.5 or in the first 0.5, although that's going to be 2-2 there'll be no scoreless crew except that's nill-nill. that's going to be very close yet when someone wins it ought to probable be Ghana. although a US win gained't assure advancment into the subsequent round it really is going to provide the probability.

Answer 5

good question lol.