Belgium’s new generation no longer bear burden of expectation

For a decade, Belgium’s ‘golden generation’ offered the promise of a major title without any return but now that a new-look squad have shaken off the past’s burden of expectation, they could prove World Cup spoilers.

Belgium’s squad for the tournament in Canada, Mexico, and the United States does boast remnants of the group that sat at the top of the year-end FIFA rankings four times between 2018 and 2021 and reached the World Cup semi-finals in Russia in 2018....