Fair play rule sends Cedars packing

As if elimination wasn’t already painful enough, Lebanon had to suffer the ignominy of bowing out of the 2019 Asian Cup on FIFA’s dubious fair play rule following their 4-1 mauling of North Korea in Group E. The Cedars became the second nation across continental and global competitions to be on the receiving end of the mind-numbing tiebreaker after Senegal suffered the same fate at last summer’s World Cup.

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