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All the World Cup tiebreaker rules and knockout round scenarios, explained

Related Topics: Tournament, Scenario, Tiebreaker, Game

We’ve reached the final round of World Cup group-stage matches, games that will determine the participants in the knockout bracket that begins Saturday with the round of 16.

Here’s what the bracket looks like. The schedule follows below it. We’ll update this post as the results come in each day this week.

(Wikipedia image)

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Round-of-16 schedule (all times Eastern)

June 30

Group C winner vs.