4. France – Korea and Japan 2002
They have been many teams that have gone to the World Cup with high expectations and failed to deliver the goods like Germany in 2018, Argentina in 2010, Spain in 2014, Brazil 2014 and many others .
They were world champions at home and two years later they won the European Championship. Considering that they had players like Zidane, Cisse, Henry, Thuram and most of their squad had won the World Cup in 1998 and the Euros in 2000.
So far Les Bleus to not score a single goal in the tournament was very disappointing and they also had a manageable group with Denmark, Uruguay and Senegal and they only managed to get one point from the whole group as they lost to Senegal and Denmark and drew with Uruguay.