re: Is goal differential the first tie breaker in all forms of soccer?

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Just seems like it would favor a more aggressive style

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well...aggression is good, but being aggressive in soccer leaves you open to counters (which the US saw yesterday)

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In a World Cup format if the tiebreaker comes down to the head-to-head then you know when those two teams played each other both of them had something to play for and neither of them had a layup so that wouldn't affect the outcome of the head-to-head

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2 problems:

1. the likelihood of ties screws this up
2. situational gameplans are common in soccer. like if the US won yesterday, we would have rested a bunch of guys b/c we had little to play for. the H2H wouldn't tell the whole story