dark monkeys more like

>>152925839
They've been a dark horse for like 15 years now, except for 2016-2022, when everyone hyped them up as super title contenders
It's time to let go. They are still good, but their best days are over for now

In what?

>>152931494
He feels they'll dress up as dark horses for carnival

>>152926424
>prior to 2016 twas mostly vidya kiddies hyping up Belgium
>had like 5 different managers in the 2-3 years before Brazil
>Wilmots was supposed to be a caretaker manager but allowed to stay on after qualifying for Brazil and because the FA was headed towards bankruptcy since 2002 was the last time Belgium qualified for a major trny
>were pot 3 team in 2014 WCQs but won the group
>youngest squad that was known to be wasteful, e.g. game vs US, and had holes in defense
>QF was a decent result, almost got to dump an the worst manager Belgium ever had on his a old club Schalke but they came to their senses
>for 2018 the BeNe bid was the only clean one according to the Garcia report so of course Russia got to host
>maybe could have won as hosts but 2018 was great to watch with attractive, attacking football in the group and memorable games in the KOs
>2016-2022 the betting markets had Belgium down as dark horses, always behind a handful of others
>2020 was the closest to one of the favourites but by 2021 Belgium had to deal with an injury crisis and again a hard KO path, beating holders Portugal and QF exit to eventual winners Italy
>defense started to age out yet Martinez kept forcing his high line; acres of space between the lines, possession game came undone, later the front three struggled to press hard (Trossard, Doku, etc. in great form but regardless Hazard got to play); and in 2022 Belgium lost their first WC group game since the 90s
I hope you enjoyed my TED talk

>>152925839
Fuck off let us go back to being irrelevant.
Tired of you cunts hyping >us up because Hazard and De Bruyne completely shat on your league.

>>152925839
Considering what a joke they were in 2010 still, they've really made an impact. They seem to be guaranteed to be at least a very secure World Cup participant and very likely to survive the group stage for the foreseeable future. Their youth system is good enough to make our DFB officials consider their entire system obsolete - it doesn't mean that much since the DFB is fucking retarded, but still, they are the ones most referenced in the new reform agenda
But the days of them being real contenders seem to be over. However, maybe they can play more freely now that people expect less of them? Except for 2018, they didn't achieve that much all in all despite definitely having the potential
I don't really consider Belgium a proper country, but they did good work for sure