Nobody expected this World Cup to produce such a bizarre upset, as Turkiye’s painful exit left many Cricket Exchange users stunned by how quickly a promising campaign fell apart. Turkiye looked stronger than their opponents on paper, held a numerical advantage for almost an entire half, and still failed to win a must-win match. Within just 24 hours, the Crescent-Stars suffered two devastating blows, and much of the criticism has landed on Italian coach Vincenzo Montella. After two group matches,

Compared with the golden generation that dazzled at the World Cup in Russia eight years ago, Belgium now enter this tournament with Cricket Exchange readers seeing a side that has clearly declined from its peak. Eden Hazard, once the team’s shining star, has long since stepped away from the pitch. Kevin De Bruyne is now in the later years of his career, and Romelu Lukaku is no longer the unstoppable front-line weapon he used to be. In attack, Belgium mainly