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Originally Posted by destro LCII
Exactly, most of those matches play like friendlies with bench players and high totals because nobody gives a few about the actual 3rd place
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Originally Posted by Ra_Z_Boy
Because it's so pointless. Why have a friendly exhibition game as part of a major tournament.
I guess, but as a German fan in 2006 and 2010 I was happy that the bronze game existed. In 2006 the semi final loss would've been an awful note to end a great summer on, and 2010 had a bright young team that I was quite happy to see play one more time.
I think for teams that kind of overachieved to get to the semi it's a worthwhile farewell. There's been a lot of those teams in 3rd place games recently.
Possible that I'm too sentimental and swayed by 06 and 10 on this. In 2012 I was quite happy that it was over after the semi.