![]() Only to lose to African champions Senegal to lose out on the prospect of upsetting England in the next round. ![]() They beat the hosts, drew with the Netherlands and looked pretty good doing so. That was football heritage.īeing a penalty shootout away from a semi-final probably did exceed expectations for Louis van Gaal’s army. They lost a bloody mental quarter-final against Argentina. Knocked out before the last 16 but at least won a game. As the third-lowest ranked team in the tournament, with no household names in their squad, it was not a surprise to see them lose all three matches on home soil. Qatar ended up being the worst hosts (on the pitch) in World Cup history. Even if their actual squad does not reflect their ranking. See you in four years, chaps.Ī quarter-final exit for a team ninth in the world is pretty fair, I’d say. The team 16th in the world were literally the first team to be knocked out in the last 16. I was hoping they’d be a lot higher here after backing them to be the dark horses of the tournament. Need I say any more?Ī round-of-16 exit sits well with me for the team ranked 15th, according to FIFA. They finished bottom of their group with zero points. Knocked out before the last 16 without a win.Ī few fancied Serbia to do well in Qatar, but their chaotic frontline of Dusan Vlahovic and Aleksandar Mitrovic failed to earn them a single win as they finished bottom of Group G. Uruguay won but crashed out thanks to South Korea’s win against Portugal. We got the crunch match of all crunch matches when Uruguay faced Ghana. ![]() Maybe this is part of the long-term plan to break that duck by putting all of their eggs in the 2026 basket as Mexico look to use their partial hosting rights to finally make it to the last eight. They’d lost in the last 16 in seven consecutive World Cups prior to the 2022 tournament. READ MORE: The first instalment of the famous F365 Euro 2024 England Ladder plays a load of guessing games You’ve got to feel for English Arsenal fans who have watched Harry Kane score penalty after penalty against their team, only to watch him sky one at the World Cup for their country. There were high hopes for this group of players, but their team is not better than France’s and that is why they lost that quarter-final. Germany managed to win a game and are lower in the rankings than Denmark, so are a spot higher here.įrom battering Costa Rica 7-0 in one of the most dominating wins in World Cup history to losing to Morocco in the round of 16 Luis Enrique lost his job and will be wondering what the hell happened. Dark horses my arse.Īnother team to flop out of their group on what was a bloody mental Thursday evening in which both them and Spain were going out at the expense of Costa Rica and Japan for at least a couple of minutes. Denmark finished bottom behind Tunisia, France and Australia after an amazing qualifying campaign and Euro 2020 semi-final appearance last year. Zero wins, one draw, two losses in a pretty favourable group. At least they scored enough goals to show off their lovely dance moves. Well, they should have won the f***ing thing then. The best team in the bloody world, apparently. They didn’t show up and their golden era is over with a grand total of zero major trophies, or even finals, to show for it. But they are still supposed to be the second best international football team on the planet. South Korea, on the other hand, are one of the lower-ranked teams and made it out of their group, so they will be high. Going from how badly they underachieved to how well they overachieved, we rank how each team performed at the World Cup based on their official FIFA world ranking.įor example (spoiler alert), Brazil are ranked first in the world but lost in the quarter-final, so they are going to be ranked very low here. ![]()
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