I think it is plain wrong to say Senegal beat France last WC due to their high expectations. They surely didn't expect to beat France, noone demanded it from them.
And that is the point. Favourites France had all the pressure and minors Senegal had none, same with Greece in last Euro.
Just minors Iran have pressure to overperform all the time. This is not an environment to have success.
High expectations don't improve the team. If I expect you to run 100 meters in less than 10 seconds you won't become faster.
Setting realistic targets and doing all possible to reach them does. We cannot even set up proper friendlies more than 2 months in advance (due to various reasons), not to speak about infrastructure. So we must adjust our expectations to that unfortunately.
There is a huge difference between having confidence and being killed by overexpectation all the time. This is something you mix up. Confidence is necessary, but we don't lack that anyway. We know we can beat any team on a good day.
And that is the point. Favourites France had all the pressure and minors Senegal had none, same with Greece in last Euro.
Just minors Iran have pressure to overperform all the time. This is not an environment to have success.
High expectations don't improve the team. If I expect you to run 100 meters in less than 10 seconds you won't become faster.
Setting realistic targets and doing all possible to reach them does. We cannot even set up proper friendlies more than 2 months in advance (due to various reasons), not to speak about infrastructure. So we must adjust our expectations to that unfortunately.
There is a huge difference between having confidence and being killed by overexpectation all the time. This is something you mix up. Confidence is necessary, but we don't lack that anyway. We know we can beat any team on a good day.
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