World rankings are a joke. Belgium have been ranked the best team in the world on and off for the last decade, mostly because of qualifiers, and they were always "dark horses", but only in 2018 could they really have been considered in the conversation as potential winners. I think they were even top going into the 2021 Euros and 2022 World Cup, but very few people had them down as likely champions for either.
Perhaps the golden rock was inside us all along.