Very true.
At the end of the day, the format does reward some teams who have not performed their best to make the knockout round, but it is the best format for 24 teams. Only having 16 or 32 teams fixes that.
My only beef is I don't like how they determined which groups get to play 3rd place teams. They need to rethink that. I mean, maybe the fact that every good team in the tourney save for a couple ended up on one side of the bracket was just bad luck. If England and Spain won their groups as expected it would look different. Still a bit loaded on the one side but not as bad.
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