Maybe that was the gameplan all along to qualify and like the better sides know just how to do it and then turn it on when it matters in the knockout games.
Maybe.
I just see 11 individual players from different clubs trying to cobble something together on the pitch, they manage to succeed in bursts or for one half, sometimes not at all but usually after 50 minutes they have run out of ideas.
And the manager stands there with look on his face that says...