Team to play Italy?

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It's a ridiculous system. A player who receives a yellow card in the first group game and the quarter-finals (two yellow cards in five games) is banned for the semi-finals, but a player who receives a yellow card in the quarter-finals and the semi-finals (two yellow cards in two games) can play in the final.

I read it as, "cards do NOT carry on after the group stages" So your scenario can't happen, but am I reading it right


Plus, I'm not a lover of changing winning teams, but I wouldn't play anyone on a yellow