[d_phaneuf]

I said expectation to make it out of the group stages, all of those teams would be expected to make it out of the group during a world cup

and yes a team with Kompany, Vermaelan, Vertonghen, Hazard, Lukaku, and Dembele etc. is one I would be interested to watch

so is one with Sahin, Turan, Tore. Or Bale and Ramsey, or Modric, Jelavic, and Mandzukic, or Dzagoev, or Dzeko, or Ibra, or Vucinic etc.

I also must have missed when Ghana and Chile left their respective continents, South American and African teams aren't the issue

and yes some of those teams made it out of their group, it does not change them being bad teams who only play defensive football. This last world cup was widely criticized as one of the worst tournaments of recent memory because of boring park the bus football.