AussieKopite wrote:1. It most certainly WILL matter if it comes down to goal differences on who qualifies and who doesn't for the next round. I'd be really p*ssed off if that one goal prevented Australia from advancing.
But if that Japanese goal hadn't counted, the game would have turned out comepletely different.
I hate this argument about "how we would have won 3-0 if the ref hadn't allowed that goal", it's rubbish. Japan could've gone on and scored later and won 1-0, it oudl have bene a draw, or Australia could have won 2-1, 1-0 who knows.
It was 0-0 at the time and had it not been allowed, the game would have turned out comepletely different to how it did turn out.
If Australia don't qualify due to GD it won't be because of that goal.
As for the diallowed goal, if the ref thinks he is wrong then who am I to complain. I thought it was a fair enough decision at the time, but that's just my opinion, and the aussies I watched it with actually agreed.
