As expected, England fell at the first difficult hurdle they faced (the same thing happens every single major tournament). The only reason they got to the previous World Cup semi final is because they didn’t play a top team. As soon as they met Croatia - OUT.
Same thing in the Euros, an easy path to the final vs Italy - OUT.
They are weak mentally and are not flexible, adaptive with tactics. So when they had troubles and let opponents scored first, they mostly were not able to equalize and failed.
People talked too much about England that they have a most exciting and biggest or best national league (Premier League) but they forget the important contributions of foreigner players for Premier League. Domestic players were over valued by media and on transfer market. Big tournaments are places we can assess British players better.
We have some exciting semi finals coming up. Argentina vs Croatia & France vs Morocco. Logic says the final will be Argentina vs France but this World Cup has been very unpredictable. We could easily see Croatia vs Morocco. I think the latter final would be great to see, even though most neutrals would like to see Messi finally win footballs greatest prize.
It looks to be perfect if a final match is between Argentina and France but I'd not say a final match between Croatia and Morocco is too bad. In 2004, we had a final match in Champions League between Monaco and Morocco so will we have another surprising match between Croatia and Morocco which were both under valued since beginning of World Cup 2022?
We have a team that had some World Cup finals but never won it, Netherlands. Will Croatia have a second final match and win it?