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Shattered posted...

I know the golden generation gets a lot of grief for underachieving but they never got the draws the following generation did. If they had then they would have probably won something

We had no luck in the dram form 98-04 coz we were allergic to topping the group.
In 2006 they had a piss easy run to the QFs where they came up against a Portugal team that was missing 2-3 players due to suspension.
They failed to qualify in 2008.
They then finished 2nd in a group consisting of USA, Slovakia and Algeria and got embarrassed by a very young (but talented) German side.

2018 was the only noticeably easy run to the semi, coz we finished 2nd and ended up on the easier side of the draw. 2021, 2022 and 2024 were all easy coz we did our job in the groups of topping it.