Could a Third-Place Team Sneak into the World Cup Knockouts with Barely Any Points?
For a while there, before Morocco twice came back from behind to ultimately win the game, it looked like Haiti could finish Group C with three points and still finish bottom.
It could still happen yet at this summer’s World Cup. Most of the incomplete groups still hold at least the possibility of a side finishing bottom of their group with three points and thus being eliminated at the group stage.
Already-eliminated Turkiye, for instance, would do exactly that if they were to beat the United States on Thursday.
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How three World Cup teams could finish third with one point
That raises the question: given that the third-placed sides are all judged against one another, regardless of what the other sides in their groups did…could we see one country eliminated with three points while another nation with fewer points goes through?
The short answer is yes: failing to make it to three points but finishing third still technically gives a side a chance to make it into the round of 32.
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