Prior to the World Cup finals, I said par for England would be the quarter-finals.
And, while I’d still be confident we could have beaten either France or Argentina on our day had we got to this afternoon’s final, I’m actually OK with where we got to. With hindsight, I might have said the semis would have been par.
But I keep coming back to where we were after the summer’s Nations League games and the fact that, in Antoine Griezmann, we came up against a man who absolutely knew what he was doing at that stage of a tournament in the role he played.
