England Ireland Egypt Holland
Due to the rapid improvement of football level in Africa, there are many death groups in the grouping of 1990 World Cup. There are three strong teams in the top three Group E: Spain, Belgium and Uruguay, the America's Cup champion, which makes South Korea, the Asian champion in the group, only hate its bad luck. However, this group did not rank in the top two in the 1990 World Cup, because there are other groups with closer strength, namely Group F and Group B! Group B has defending champion Argentina, European Cup runner-up Soviet Union, Eastern European powerhouse Romania and African lion Cameroon, and the overall strength is obviously stronger than Group E, while Group F is not only inferior in strength, but also more cruel in competition!
In Group F, England, one of the top four, the Netherlands, the European champion, Ireland (the top eight in this World Cup), and Egypt, the African champion at that time. From the beginning, the competition in the group stage was extremely fierce. After two rounds of games, all four teams tied in two games, with the same points, goal difference and number of goals! ! Only in the last battle, with the winning header from Southampton centre-back mark wright, England reached the top with a score of 16. However, Ireland and the Netherlands have exactly the same points, goal difference and goals conceded. As a result, the two teams can only draw lots to decide the ranking. In the end, the Dutch team saw the next signing, and the result of the third place forced them to draw with the later champion West Germany in the eighth final, which contributed a classic battle for the World Cup.
There is no if in the world, but we can imagine that if the Egyptians didn't miss a chance to face the goalkeeper directly in the second half and fixed the score at 1: 1, then there will be four teams with the same score, the same goal difference, the same number of goals and the same relationship between victory and defeat! ! What would that be like?
Group match record
England-Ireland 1: 1 Egypt-Netherlands 1: 1
England-Netherlands 0:0 Egypt-Ireland 0:0
England-Egypt 1:0 Ireland-Netherlands 1: 1
Cruelty index: 7
Strength index: 7
Death index: 7