Yeah, but the second half was a one way street. It was more like you guys choked than Belgium won the game (if you know what I mean?) I guess I was wrong about the strenght of Belgium. Them leading 2-0 also has a say, though.
They have good players and a strong and fast counter attack but a team that isn't wasteful like Brazil was will have the potential to crush them.
I don't know if France is capable of that. In fact I don't know shit about anything on this WC. You can't predict the unpredictable. France might beat Belgium and go all the way but So could Belgium.
If anything this is the best time there ever was in WC history to what we consider second-tier national teams to win it. And hell, why not. The WC has been dominated by the elite 5 (the ones with 2 titles or more) for too long. I'd like to see someone else win it for the first time (Croatia is my pick).
Also South America really got left behind. If it wasn't for Brazil, you know how many WC titles would have gone to SA in the last 32 years? Zero. We've been carrying the burden of representing SA football for too damn long.
Argentina haven't done shit in ages (And the ones they did they cheated the shit out of them), Uruguay was big in the time of my grandpa and that's it. Colombia will never step up and there's nobody else. It's all Europe now.