Quote Originally Posted by Pearcey3 View Post
I may be wrong but I think it’s the overall goal difference that matters. So if they end up with 18 points like us if we draw they are both on 12 points net of the six points taken from the bottom placed team. The overall goal difference is then applied, ie their respective goal differences from all of their group games. I may be wrong on this it really is farcical
Don't think so. The wikipedia page says 'matches' against the bottom teams are removed and the table shows the goal difference excluding those games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_F...A_Second_Round