43.Worst Defending World Cup Winners

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Across
  1. 5. Suffring from an internal dispute they lose to Belgium, Italy and Brazil at the tournament held in Spain.
  2. 7. They got out of the groups in Mexico, after being comfortably beaten by Frnace in the rounf og 16.
  3. 8. Lost to Mexico at their opening defence, then went out when south Korea beat them at the Russian World Cup edition.
Down
  1. 1. They are considered the worst defending World cup Winners in history, witout a single goal to their name, losing to Senegal and Denmark, and drawing with Uruguay.
  2. 2. Having their star man failed to recoevr, they Went out at the group stages losing to Hungary and Portugal in England.
  3. 3. Even with a heroic squad They failed to win a singlr game, they finished bottom of their group in South Africa.
  4. 4. After the WWII they had none of their previous edition squad, they went out in the group stage losing to Sweden.
  5. 6. Despite still having a brilliant squad they fell apart in the heat of Brazil.