Australia v Japan

Twitter answer...

Japan by 2. History made. Sucks it was us. They deserved it. Japan played V well.

(a blog answer would go on to say how Japan were a very aggressive, fast, and confident side who played over the 80 mins a more disciplined game. While I think more commentators would agree that Australia is the more 'skilled' side, that dosen't could for much unless you can display that skill for 80 solid minutes. Australia let Japan take a 4 goal lead and then tried to play catch up. Big question from the people at home - how did this happen?

World Lacrosse - make mistakes and teams will take them. Moral of the story? Don't make mistakes.)

So, rambling aside, where does that leave us in the rankings??

Well, England beat Japan, Japan beat Australia and Australia beat Japan. Assuming of course that German goes winless in the division when Australia play them tomorrow and USA and Canada do what everyone expects them to do (ie. WIN) then Japan, Australia and England will all finish on two wins.

In case of tie breakers for placings, the games against each other, and those games only, could for goals for and against.

So it doesn't matter that Team A defeated Team C 4000 to nil when Team B only won by two, it matters what Team A defeated Team B by. So, as it currently stands, as long as Australia do NOT screw up against Germany and the Japan v USA and Canada v England games both go North American, then Australia will finish (slightly) higher on goal differences, finish in top 4, and still be in the running for the metal games.