They thought they are so smart by avoiding the more difficult bracket. If you want to win it all, you must not take any shortcuts. Decisions like the one England made early on, more often than not end up backfiring.
1986 group matches last day. Denmark and Germany played for 1st and 2nd spot.
Winner will be crowned group wiiners, but will face Spain
Runner up will be 2nd, but will face Morocco
Smart Germans let Denmark win the game and become group winners.
In the knock outs, Germany took Morocco with ease, '
but Demark...got raped by Spain 1-5 as their biggest WC defeat ever.
Some of the Danish players got psychological help after return from that world cup.
Germany went all the way to the final, and hit the wall of Diego.
Still Germans were only cm away from sensation.