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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Georgina Turner

Group A permutations

A few of you are confused as to what exactly the four teams in group A, who could all still qualify, need to do on Saturday to make sure. It's all a bit more complicated than I'd like, but let me see if I can clear things up...

Basically, as long as Denmark don't lose to Finland, they're into the semis.

Finland need to beat Denmark, and hope that England v Sweden doesn't end in a draw, to go through.

England only need a draw against Sweden if Denmark do the decent thing and beat Finland, but if they beat Sweden, they'll go through whatever happens at Bloomfield Road.

And Sweden need to beat England to go through.

If any of the teams finish level on points, Uefa says that first head-to-head points will be taked into account, then goal difference in head-to-heads, then goals scored in head-to-heads, then goal difference in all group matches, and then goals scored in all group matches. We could have to worry about all this horrid maths if England draw with Sweden and Finland beat Denmark - because everyone except the Swedes would be on four points.

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