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There is a slight difference and incentives differ between Spain 1982 and Euro 2024, I think. The second round in Spain was also a round robin format, whereas here it's a knock out game. So a team also has to consider which team they might end up playing in the Round of 16. That makes such outright fixing more complicated, but not totally impossible

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agree about that

anyway georgia killed everything

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But the prediction based on game theory assumes that the teams will fix the matches which is unlikely!

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