This sucks. All that build up for years knowing we were going to host. Then us playing real good in group and winning with a man down in the 1st round, only to go out like a fart in the wind playing... like that?
My totally amateurish thought was that we're up 3-nil and we want to rest his legs and prevent a freakish injury. Things were getting chippy a few times. I did see that he came out to the "friends and family zone" and motioned that he was ok. So that's what I'm going with.
On a side note...