Biggest let-down in the World Cup.

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I thought Argentina were par for the course, Messi aside they aren't very good

Team who scrapped through into the competition were lucky to progress to the knock-out stages. More of a surprise that they got so close to France than anything.

Germany were a let down, Spain were a let down, Tunisia were a let down (ranked best African team in a tournament where no African team progressed), Brazilian manager was a let down in not tweaking tactics/personal when they had the squad to win the tournament.....

Switzerland as a dark horse for this race? That they couldn't beat Sweden having had such a great unbeaten run going into the tournament and getting a good result against Brazil.

[Llanedeyrnblue]

I thought Argentina were par for the course, Messi aside they aren't very good

Did he play

[mazadona10]

The England system doesn't suit Sterling . Ultimately all the players in their team aren't really the main guys at their club apart from Kane. Sterling has much better players meaning he doesn't have to be such a primary focus.

I'm not sure England have the right players for the formation if it wasn't sterling they wanted Rashford and it's not the role for either.

Germany on reflection got some very good players and even got a reprieve once and still couldn't do itm

[The Bob Banker Spanker]

Germany were the biggest let down in terms of teams.
Player wise, I'll go with Ozil but he's always a let down every time I see him play for Arsenal.

[bobh]

Biggest letdown was VAR, or more precisely, FIFA's implementation of it.

[lardy]

Biggest letdown was VAR, or more precisely, FIFA's implementation of it.

To be fair, it improved a lot after the groups. Until the final anyway.

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The entire African continent.

Fixed for you 👍

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Aside from the players/countries mentioned I was disappointed in the tv punditry

I was also disappointed by that women (she was behind Putin and handing medals to him) who appeared to pocket one of the winners medals

Saw it in Reddit will try and get the link

[NYCBlue]

Has to be Germany. But special mention has to go out to Spain who were ****ing shit and not in the least bit entertaining.

[NYCBlue]

The entire African contingent.

France's African contingent did OK.

[Bald Barry Bastad]

What would France be like without the Africans? Hmmmm.

[Llanedeyrnblue]

......following on from Maccy Blue's comment on the BEL/ENG thread.

Player...or team for that matter.

He says Lukaku.

I'm going to say Sterling ...... considering he's had a good season at MC. Had a lot of WC game time too.

Missed all his Man City chums around him

[G rangetown Blue]

The Croatian Presidents shirt not becoming transparent when it got wet, was mine.