What's gone wrong with international football? 

Euros have been ruined by switching to 24 teams. It makes big teams play conservatively. In the group there is no serious threat of being last and going out, they don't have to take any risks. It is usually only in the QF that they get really tested, but that is the knockout stage already, you can save yourself on penalties, so why take risks now? If you look at any Euro with 16 teams, it was non-stop action because if you did not win 2 games in the group you could go out. It was the best competition in football in my opinion. And the WC with 48 will be the last nail the coffin for international football.

Players are exhausted.

i think that instead of the talent dropping off, it is a lot more spread out throughout the world. it is a lot more competitive between countries ranked in the top ten vs countries ranked 40-50 than it was back in the day. in that aspect i think that today's football is more unpredictable and entertaining than it was back then. yes the style of play is boring from a lot of the big teams, but in the 90's a vast majority of teams played a rigid, pragmatic 442 that people would complain about nowadays. the big teams just had all the star players so they made it seem more exciting off their individual talent alone. france played the same way in 1998 as they do now but the opposition theyre facing now on average is a lot better than it was back then, and france dont have as good of a team either. same can be said for a lot of big national teams right now.

It’s so easy to say “they don’t care” but the reality is they do. It’s hard to win games at the top levels and managers want to play in ways to win not to entertain.

I like the Nations League as it has filled the gap once held by the Confederations Cup for European teams.

with the developing of modern sports technology and medical system , there are a trend can't be ignore that we may see more "industrial" football stars than "genius" players. Not all the teams are so strong that they can both focus on "playing well" and "winning the game"

Half of all goals being disallowed due to the new tech doesn't help

Nations league killed it

A better idea surely is to have a world straight knock out tournament like the FA Cup. Then when you finally get a winner, THAT country goes through to the next stage. The rest of the world does knock out again. Each tournament you eliminate one country I think the process should take a few hundred years until we find the outright winner

You were wrong

International football is garbage, I'm always disappointed when an International break comes around.

Afcon was much better but to be honest, even the Champions League has been on the decline, it's not the tournament it was once was, I dare say, football in general has declined..where are the hotshot strikers even in club football?

everyone plays fucking tiki taka i cant stand this shit tactic anymore. should be banned

I used to love international football but it’s just so dull now 🥱

Euros were always this boring guys, even before var, rather it was cr7 who changed the paradigm. I've always watched the copa america instead. Even if I have to stay awake till 4 AM, boy it hasn't failed to entertain, even if this copa america has been somewhat dull, it is still 10 times more watchable than the Euro, specially this one.

LOUSY CLOUD! GET OUT OF HERE CLOUD!!! In mmmyyyyyyy day, players were much better, everything was better…. I’m cold and tired. Put on The Last of the Summer Wine!

Germany played well as well