It was purely too much stress and pressure on the team. We saw it with Liverpool too this year. When you have a team and the expectations are so high, you tend to look past the talent and whether the team CAN win it. Its also possible that this team just isn't that good. I'm not taking a shot at your national team, but their are certain issues with them. They just finished a 9 Month league season, plus Champions League and Europa matches and FA Cup matches. These guys are just physically wiped out. How many matches do they play in non WC years? 60+ if your in the CL? You take the actual matches plus travel, plus practices, and commercial and sponsor deals and these guys have to be wiped out and just exhausted.
It doesn't matter how much talent or how many world class players are on one squad, if they cant play as one and play together then they will never succeed. Plus, add in that the players are all professional players with huge salaries, then they adopt the attitude of nothing to lose. Too them its just a job and success might not be on the top of their list. A lot of professional athletes dont or wont play in these tournaments and Olympics because its too long and effects their physical capabilities.
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