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Group E of the 1986 FIFA World Cup was one of the groups of nations competing at the
1986 FIFA World Cup The 1986 FIFA World Cup was the 13th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June 1986. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-team format. Colombia ha ...
. The group's first round of matches began on 4 June and its last matches were played on 13 June. Matches were played at the
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in
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and at the
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in Nezahualcóyotl. Impressive debutantes
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topped the group - surprisingly beating Germany 2-0 despite having a man sent off: they were joined in the second round by
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who would go on to reach the final. 3 red cards were handed out in this group, 2 of them against
Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
who made the second round but were criticized for their physical play, especially in their last group game against
Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...
where
José Batista José Alberto Batista González (born 6 March 1962) is an Uruguayan retired footballer who played as a defender, and a manager. He is best known for having received a red card after 56 seconds – a World Cup record – in the 1986 game against ...
was sent off in under a minute. Scotland Manager Sir Alex Ferguson made the surprise decision to leave out captain Souness and passed responsibility on to Strachan and Albiston, a move with which Ferguson would later recall "his biggest mistake in football" and despite being a man up, Scotland were unable to score, the match finishing 0-0, and Uruguay went through in third place instead. Before the tournament, English-language media reported Uruguay manager
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's description of it as the "
group of death A group of death in a multi-stage tournament is a group which is unusually competitive, because the number of strong competitors in the group is greater than the number of qualifying places available for the next phase of the tournament. Thus, in ...
", popularising a phrase first used in Spanish in the 1970 World Cup.


Standings


Matches


Uruguay vs West Germany


Scotland vs Denmark


West Germany vs Scotland


Denmark vs Uruguay


Denmark vs West Germany


Scotland vs Uruguay


References

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