> although you could say it is unsportsmanlike. I don’t think anyone rational would agree that it was unsportsmanlike. The situation was very clear, if they w

> although you could say it is unsportsmanlike. I don’t think anyone rational would agree that it was unsportsmanlike. The situation was very clear, if they won by a single goal their season was over. The goal to make it 2-1 occurred in the 83rd minute and they didn’t adopt this strategy until the 87th minute. In those intervening 4 minutes they attempted to score and restore their 2-goal lead. There are other examples of locally detrimental behavior that aims for strategic advantage, such as the intentional walk in baseball. Or that sometimes in football/soccer a team will intentionally kick the ball out of bounds to stop play because of an injury to a player, and the other team responds afterward by throwing the ball in to the other team or kicking it out themselves.