1990 is a fair comparison. 1-1 draw with Ireland. 0-0 draw with Holland. 1-0 win over Egypt. 0-0 til the 120th minute with Belgium. Almost beaten by Cameroon before two late Lineker penalties.
We're playing better now, I'd wager.
what you said was "I really feel we’re getting carried away on the back of wins against teams that we should always beat" which is pretty much taken to include Colombia - but if you didn't mean that, then I'd say there was a lot of caution that it was just Panama and Tunisia we'd beaten, but...