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The first match was between the Holy Tempest Empire and Azyeri. Because of the lack of Tempest league, the star players of the Tempest team were primarily Ruskvians playing in various West Alaxian leagues. This meant that the Tempest team was very fractured, with little experience working together, and a lack of team cohesion. Azyeri on the other hand had experience playing against some major football teams in East Alaxia. Tempest's key weakness was in it's defence were a lack of planning and unity allowed very easily for Azyeri to slip through. This was first exposed in the 23rd minute, then again by five more goals before the thirty minute mark. On an offensive by the main striker aiming for a fourth goal, the main Tempest striker stole the ball and did an amazing goal. Soon after, the Azyeri goalkeeper performed an own goal in a very embarrassing fashion, leading to his substitution three minutes later. The first half then ended without any further goals. The second half was a whole different game. The football team manager for a top Sinkayyan club came in from the audience and gave a pep talk to the Tempest team and re-ordered the entire defence and made several substitutions. This allowed for a second goal by the main striker in the 50th minute, and a third goal in the 59th minute. The Tempest defender then scored a corner kick goal in the 67th minute which deeply troubled the Azyeri side. Azyeri, really amped up the pressure then in the final twenty minutes in order to not be embarrassed by the side and potentially lose in the world cup. This led to the injury of an Azyeri defender and an equaliser goal by Tempest in the 80th minute. And in desperation, like some teams before them, Azyeri accidentally gave Tempest a penalty five minutes into injury time! The match ended as a Holy Tempest Empire victory, 7–6, a huge shock.
The second match was between Jimaria and the Holy Tempest Empire. Jimaria was one of the best teams in the tournament and was going against possibly the most disorganised. However, Tempest had played a very recent game and could be exhausted, although Jimaria was not keen to underestimate Tempest like Azyeri did. They played incredibly slow and safe only exploiting the Tempest side when possible. This bagged them a goal in the 40th minute, and a second goal in the 83rd minute. Holy Tempest performed much worse than the second half of their previous game likely from exhaustion, a better opponent, and lack of opportunity. Jimaria won the match 2–0.
The third match was between Azyeri and Jimaria - two juggernauts of their areas. Because of their loss against Tempest, Azyeri would need nothing less than a solid victory to ensure they would go through on goal difference. There was no action in the first half, but the Azyeri striker scored a banger of a goal in the 76th minute which saw massive celebration in the stands. Jimaria won a goal back at the 85th minute, but a final goal by Azyeri in the 3rd minute of injury time
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===Group 4===
The first match was between Empherias and Karkuss. The match was very quiet with little to no action in the first half beside a wonderful goal from the Empheri centre-forward. The rest of the first half saw a yellow card by the Karkuss striker in the third minute of injury time. The second half saw no goals scored, with 3 shots from Karkuss and 7 shots from Empherias. While Empherias won the match 1–0, journalists from the High Kingdoms began some attacks against the players as they managed to barely convert any shots into a victory against an experienced side.
The second match was between Nordleg and Empherias. The match got off to an incredible beginning as Nordleg was given a red card in the 1st minute after an egregious unprovoked tackle. Two other Nordleg players were given yellow cards within the first ten minutes but this behaviour soon subsided. Playing with just ten players from the off, alongside Nordleg's inexperience and inability, people thought Empherias would walk right over them and achieve a result similar to Ceironia v United Republic before it. However, Empherias could not score a single goal in the first half. The left winger Goldstone managed to score a goal from an open defence in the 50th minute to secure the victory and three points. Just like the previous match, people were outraged over the Empheri performance, especially at home, and attacked them for playing terribly despite guaranteeing qualification to the knockout round. Their performance here was terrible. Empherias had 23 shots on goal throughout compared to Nordleg's 1; and 11 corner kicks compared to 0 from Nordleg. Empherias had absolute total possession throughout the game but couldn't convert it into any goals.
The third match was between Karkuss and Nordleg. Both teams would need to win to qualify for the knockout round. If they drew, they would tie on points, goal difference and goals scored and would thus be tie broken by fair play - which would see Karkuss going through, having less yellow cards. However, Karkuss would not need to worry. They scored a confident goal in the 3rd minute and followed it up by their main striker achieving a hat trick by half time. The second half would see Karkuss' defender get a red card but the match ended 3–0, with Karkuss going through despite a lackluster second half in terms of scoring. The Karkuss manager expressed how he slowed down and brought key players off to prevent injury and to get prepared for the knockouts.
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