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Originally Posted by demonrail666
If they'd made the groups bigger to accommodate the expansion, I'd hate it, but not this way. Admittedly, pre-qualification will be a bit more boring but by having 3 teams instead of 4 during the group stage it'll mean an end to those dreaded games in the final round, between two teams that can't possibly qualify to the knockout stage. It should also make teams play in a more attacking style from the beginning.
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Agreed. Yet I'm sure we will see groups like, say:
Germany
New Zealand
Canada
That could be an exaggeration, though, but not by much...
