Scorelines made simple


By Nathan Jackson
May 17 2005

Suprisingly, people have been asking me what City need to do to get through to the playoff final (which you would assume be obvious based on that we're 1-0 up, it's not exactly rocket science). So for all the people who have asked, here's your answer.

Quite simply

Lincoln go through if

They avoid defeat

Macclesfield go through if

They win the 2nd leg by 2 clear goals

The game goes to extra time if

Macclesfield win by 1 goal

Below is a table of what happens depending on the scoreline. So in other words, on the table below, Macclesfield only have 6 possible scorelines that will see them through whereas Lincoln will go through if they achieve one of 16 scorelines that would see them through. Extra time is only possible in 4 of the below situations.

 

MACCLESFIELD
0 1 2 3 4
I 0 L E M M M
M 1 L L E

M

 M
P 2 L L L E M
S 3 L L L L E
4 L L L L L

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