I guess I just can't understand how highly rated Belgium was coming in to this thing. They are WASHED. I'm not sure how this outcome is interesting or surprising, apart from being the definitive nail in the coffin for the Hazard/Lukaku/KDB era. Their *actual* window closed in 2018, imo.

(All of which, as a Roma fan, is wonderful to see - when Radja Nainggolan was the best box-to-box midfielder in Serie A, Roberto Martinez left him at home because he smoked cigarettes sometimes. GOOOOOD)

Meanwhile, their opposition was literally in the final last time and still has arguably the best midfield, and midfielder, in the world (not to mention most of their best players are contemporaries of this would-be great Belgium side... and very much still in form).

Oh and Gvardiol is clearly something. Leipzig gonna get a lot for him.