Croatia have been the best team in the tournament so far, they beat us convincingly in their first match and then dominated Argentina in the 2nd and now have got another win against Iceland and only conceding 1 goal throughout. I don't think they'll have enough to win the World Cup but they could go a long way.

 

It'd be nice to see them go all the way, think Denmark might cause them difficulty tho as there's a reason they had to go through via the playoffs with their players.

I'm not really one for fairytale stories, I went to see the biggest teams on the world stage fighting it out. The tournament suffers as a whole if you have loads of big guns go out early at once. Fair enough if they're a decent side and can actually play (e.g. Morocco and Peru) but not for me as a football fan. I want to see the best teams and the best players.

 

France have a terrible coach but probably the best squad individually. This Argentina side is garbage though, so many weak links and players that are not good enough to play at the top anymore.

Usually the games are crap in the later stages when it's only big teams left. Very rare for them to not be a 1-0 or a penalty shootout. It's nice to have a few underdogs in the mix to ruffle some feathers (or failing that turn into complete fodder so at least we see some goals!)

I agree - the underdogs are actually the ones with the better players at the moment e.g. Mexico!