Washington Post · Jun 26, 2018
All the World Cup tiebreaker rules and knockout round scenarios, explained
Time to fill in the World Cup knockout-stage blanks. (Ted S. Warren/Associated Press)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.
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Round-of-16 schedule (all times Eastern)
June 30
Group C winner vs. Group D runner-up in Kazan, 10 a.m.