France and Norway have already claimed the two top spots in Group I - yet all four positions in the table are still up for grabs in the final games of the group on Friday.
Norway and France will battle it out for top spot at Gillette Stadium in Boston, while Senegal and Iraq will simultaneously duke it out at BMO Field in Toronto.
Both games are due to kick off at 3pm local time (8pm UK time), with English referees in charge for both games. Which is nice.
Permutations in World Cup Group I
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
1 | France | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
2 | Norway | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
3 | Senegal | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 0 |
4 | Iraq | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 0 |
The ramifications of both games on how the group will finally shake out are very straightforward, thanks to the way the results have gone so far.
France and Norway start the day on six points and already qualified, while Senegal and Iraq are both yet to pick up their first point the competition.
France hold the advantage on goal difference at the top of the group, which means anything other than a Norway win will put Les Bleus through as group winners while Norway progress as runners-up.
The winners will face the third-placed side from either group D, F or G at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Tuesday, June 29 in the round of 32.
That would be either Paraguay; Sweden; or an as-yet-undetermined side from the wide-open Group G, which is made up of Egypt, Iran, Belgium and New Zealand, any of whom could yet finish third.
The runners-up will meanwhile go on to face Ivory Coast at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Wednesday, June 30.
Didier Deschamps will miss this game as he has flown back to France to attend his mother's funeral.
Senegal and Iraq will meanwhile face off in the hope that a big enough victory might be enough to make them one of the best eight third-placed sides.
For Iraq the chances are vanishingly thin: their -6 goal difference means they would probably need to win at least 5-0 to stand a chance.
Senegal come into the game with a -3 goal difference and having scored three goals, however, so a two-goal victory would be enough to rank them as the best of the third-placed sides to finished on three points so far.
A draw between Iraq and Senegal would definitely see both sides eliminated from the tournament.
