Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
England have beaten two of the group winners in their last two games.

Germany, Spain and Argentina have World Cup pedigree, but they simply weren't anywhere near good enough to win this tournament. Pedigree counts for little when your players aren't up to it.
Did Sweden look like group winners to you ? Did Colombia ?

They also lost to group leaders, who went on to beat the group leaders of group whatever-it-was, Brazil. Now that deserves plaudits. England have got lucky.

You are right though in saying that Germany, Argentina and Spain were , for whatever reason, totally underwhelming. I still think any on of those sides could and probably would beat england in a quarter or semi.

So, ye. They can be "world-cup finalists" england or even "2018 world cup winners" england, it still won't make them the best team in the world. Far from it.