| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Japan |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 4[a] | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Senegal |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 4[a] | |
| 3 |  Colombia |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 | |
| 4 |  Poland (E) |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 |
Posted on 06/19/2018 10:41:19 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Every four years there’s a new ball for the World Cup—and every four years players are unhappy with it. Maybe it’s too light and has too much lift, like the 2002 Fevernova. Or maybe it wobbles unexpectedly in the air, making it harder for goalies to predict its motion, like the 2006 Teamgist. Or maybe the ball suddenly changes speed, dropping out of the air and causing accidental handballs, like the 2010 Jabulani.
At the World Cup level, these tiny changes in a ball’s aerodynamics can legitimately impact a team’s performance, so the intense scrutiny of the World Cup ball is perhaps to be expected. “You could argue that it’s the most important piece of equipment in the most popular sport in the world,” says John Eric Goff, Professor of Physics at University of Lynchburg.
Adidas designs every World Cup ball, and on top of being a big seller for them, engineers at the company are constantly a little closer to the perfect ball, Goff says. The ideal soccer ball is a pimple-covered, perfect sphere, its surface just subtly textured enough to keep the airflow around the ball slightly turbulent. Unintuitive as this might sound, the ridges and pimples on the ball make it more aerodynamic, helping the ball to fly through the air more stably.
The Telstar 18, the design for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, is as close to a perfect sphere as you can get.
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I think I saw Lewandowski’s picture on the side of a milk carton.
That’s the way to score a goal. Run the whole field right down the middle.
Poland gets to be the first Euro team to lose to teams from three different continents.
I bet Lewandowski will be happy to stay in Munich.
They keep finding these crazy stats on German TV too.
“Harry Kane has more goals then Lewandowski has touches.”
He’d better stay out of Poland.
“...touches in the box”, that is.
Do widzenia.
Tables were updating quicker than this... maybe because it is Sunday.
I#ll post tomorrow.
Too tired to do simple math.
I hope I don’t curse them, but I am now all in for Croatia.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 4[a] | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Senegal |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 4[a] | |
| 3 | Colombia |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 | |
| 4 | Poland (E) |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 |
Tomorrow starts the third and final round of the Groups Stage and then half of the 32 teams will be going home.
Four games played with two at the same time.
Yeah, watch Poland actually beat Japan.
It happened the last time, they lost their first two and got eliminated, then beat the US, but the US still did advance anyway.
Switzerland goes on my s-list.
No class at all.
That was 2002 which was the only time the US reached the quarterfinals.
Yep, I stayed up late to watch the US beat Mexico “Dos a Cero”, it was fantastic.
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