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Wedding Guests & World Cup Quarterfinals with Daniele Fisichella · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Let's just do it. Let's do the show and we'll
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  Speaker 1: see what flies out.
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  Speaker 2: Of our mouths.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorite's presented by Draft Kings. The Crown
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  Speaker 1: is yours. We are an Action Network podcast. I'm Brandon Kravitz,
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  Speaker 1: your hosts. Back at it with the first lady of
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  Speaker 1: the pod, Kendra Middleton. We're going to the quarterfinals in
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  Speaker 1: the World's Cup. We'll chat with our residents soccer guru
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  Speaker 1: Danielle Physikella later on in the show to see if
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  Speaker 1: we can extract some value out of the final eight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still reeling off of that Team USA loss, even
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  Speaker 1: though it was Danielle who told us round of sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: stage of elimination, it was not a bet I was
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  Speaker 1: willing to place because I was feeling the two fifty
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  Speaker 1: patriotism this year. And now, of course, Kendra, the conversation
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  Speaker 1: has devolved into soccer is too expensive for kids. We
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  Speaker 1: could have seen this coming from a mile away.
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  Speaker 3: I heard some ass on Fox Radio yesterday say that
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  Speaker 3: that's the laziest take he's ever heard, and it really
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  Speaker 3: pissed me off because it's true, like that is on
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  Speaker 3: a global scale. In comparison, Yes, we have so many
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  Speaker 3: other sports here that kids have to choose from. But
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  Speaker 3: it's the same thing with basketball, like we are not
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  Speaker 3: getting the same shirts and skins, show up and play
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  Speaker 3: because everything is AAU travel whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Now and it's literally it's it's the price. It's yes.
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  Speaker 3: The development is also an issue and people are comparing
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  Speaker 3: it to the women saying, okay, well why can the
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  Speaker 3: women make it but the men can't, And it's because
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  Speaker 3: women don't have as many options of sports to play.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, we also have a head start I think if
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  Speaker 1: you were too, if you for some reason with soccer,
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  Speaker 1: the clock of when you started playing this sport as
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  Speaker 1: a country matters, and our women started playing generations before
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  Speaker 1: women around the world. So we have a hit I
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  Speaker 1: head start with females playing the sport. We do not
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  Speaker 1: have a head start with men playing the sport. We
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  Speaker 1: are still very much in catchup mode. We just had
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  Speaker 1: the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the country. There
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a soul playing soccer when Ben Franklin was hanging
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  Speaker 1: around and they were writing up conjectularations depending not so
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  Speaker 1: I mean you go back to the history of this country.
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  Speaker 1: It's it took us a while to get around to
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  Speaker 1: the just the playing of this sport, and all these
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  Speaker 1: sports are expensive. You think baseball, we just won a
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  Speaker 1: gold in hockey, you think hockey is fucking cheap. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever tried to buy hockey equipment?
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  Speaker 4: A stick is an eight hundred bucks dude.
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  Speaker 3: Time.
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  Speaker 1: I tend to agree that is one of the laziest
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  Speaker 1: takes that's out there. It is true, but we do
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  Speaker 1: this every single time the United States gets eliminated or
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  Speaker 1: or does it make the World Cup to begin with
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  Speaker 1: lazy analysis. But I will tell you I've not been
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  Speaker 1: betting a ton of World Cup because I tend to
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  Speaker 1: stay in my lane when it comes to ninety to
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  Speaker 1: ninety five percent of my wagers. Been crushing it in
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  Speaker 1: the baseball world lately, excited for football season to get
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  Speaker 1: back up and running. I am profitable in the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup and I have a five to one on France
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  Speaker 1: to win it all. So we're sitting pretty dug.
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  Speaker 3: Any of my bets in the app, And I don't
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  Speaker 3: know why. I'm just you know how like sometimes you
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  Speaker 3: like you have bets that you log and bets that
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  Speaker 3: you don't from like a confidence perspective, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, I will say the trick for me, and
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  Speaker 1: this is I mean, this is really company shill kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff here. I have the Action Network app on
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  Speaker 1: the cover. It's on the front page of the phone,
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  Speaker 1: so that I don't forget.
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  Speaker 4: Actually put notifications on that.
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  Speaker 1: That is wait, but we're missing out on precious information.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm going to log a bet, if I'm putting
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  Speaker 1: my hard earned dollars on a wager, I feel as though,
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  Speaker 1: as a member of this Action collective, it is my
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  Speaker 1: duty to share it with people. Whether it's shit or not,
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  Speaker 1: that's up to you to decide, and then hopefully we
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  Speaker 1: cash it.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, You've You've changed my perspective, all right,
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  Speaker 3: I'm speaking shit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna see if I can change your perspective on this,
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  Speaker 1: because I know that if there's anybody out there that's
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  Speaker 1: anti a thousand people closing down Madison Square Garden in
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  Speaker 1: the streets of New York for a wedding, it would
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  Speaker 1: be you. Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift officially tie the knot.
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  Speaker 1: I tend to be more of the My wife's a
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  Speaker 1: swifty I appreciate her music.
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  Speaker 4: I know what I wife, don't tell me that.
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  Speaker 1: I think the whole swift is part of the NFL
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  Speaker 1: story has been more positive than negative. It's brought a
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  Speaker 1: female audience that wasn't necessarily there before. All that is positive,
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  Speaker 1: father daughter.
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  Speaker 3: All that tell me log on and started telling me
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  Speaker 3: shit about football when they've been following.
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  Speaker 4: It for a week is if they know about fuck.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, I agree, more women, I'm happy to have you.
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  Speaker 4: I will say.
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  Speaker 1: This wedding, though, is where they may have gone a
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  Speaker 1: step too far. The fact that Dean Blandino was invited
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  Speaker 1: to this wedding has me so baffled. How do you
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  Speaker 1: want to rules analyst for Fox at this wedding? We
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  Speaker 1: should have been invited.
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  Speaker 4: Carissa Thompson was invited.
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  Speaker 3: The craziest thing to me though, Adam Sandler officiating.
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  Speaker 2: This ship.
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  Speaker 4: That is cool is objectively random, but shout out on
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  Speaker 4: New Hampshire.
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  Speaker 1: I vote for. If we're gonna do most random guest
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  Speaker 1: at the wedding, to me, it's got to be Dean Blandino.
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  Speaker 1: I never would have if you said I'll give it
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  Speaker 1: to give you a million people. I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: AI when I saw that.
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  Speaker 4: Ruth, How have you to cross paths?
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. I want to know what
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  Speaker 1: the thought process was going into the invite list, Like
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  Speaker 1: if I've played against you, if I've played with you,
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  Speaker 1: if you've.
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  Speaker 4: Breathed and been in the same room, you were invited
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  Speaker 4: to this wedding.
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  Speaker 1: They just went to the NFL owners meetings and started
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  Speaker 1: handing out invitations. Thompson, I think he wants a job
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  Speaker 1: with Fox.
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  Speaker 4: Aaron Andrews. Yeah, yeah, actually I did that so I
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  Speaker 4: got married.
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  Speaker 1: I got married in twenty seventeen. Part of the invite
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  Speaker 1: list for me was people that I wanted to work
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  Speaker 1: with more. If I was getting married now, everyone at
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  Speaker 1: Action would be invited to the wedding. You know you
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  Speaker 1: do use it as a wedding. Yeah, you do that absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Gifford's only getting a cloud invite.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, uh for sure. And a plus any get a
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  Speaker 1: plus one.
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  Speaker 4: It's okay. Your wife would invite me because she actually
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  Speaker 4: likes me.
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  Speaker 1: That is true. Coming up, Daniel A Physickella drops some
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  Speaker 1: The man who brought us the US stage of elimination
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  Speaker 1: Round of sixteen bet is back, daniela Physickella Action Network
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  Speaker 1: soccer analysts. I know it wasn't a popular take at
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  Speaker 1: the time, but anybody who backed that is now at
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  Speaker 1: least profitable on one of their many wagers throughout the
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  Speaker 1: World Cup. So I hate to see them go, but
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the early winner. Before we get thank
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  Speaker 1: you for.
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  Speaker 2: The introduction that makes me extremely popular in the US
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  Speaker 2: now if I wasn't before. So yeah, that's my ticket
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  Speaker 2: to the US, that's my green card. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, of course, I mean before before we get into
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  Speaker 1: the deep dive, We've got eight teams left and some
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  Speaker 1: really good matches coming up. Let's talk about that team
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  Speaker 1: USA squad. How disappointed should American soccer fans be after
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  Speaker 1: losing and maybe in the way that they lost. You
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  Speaker 1: thought going into the tournament that that's exactly where they
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  Speaker 1: would be eliminated. So maybe you could talk some people
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  Speaker 1: off the ledge because folks in this country are freaking
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  Speaker 1: out over the loss. In the future of American soccer, I've.
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  Speaker 2: Been freaking out is another reaction, because let's face it,
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  Speaker 2: Round of sixteen has always been the ceiling for the
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  Speaker 2: US American team, and the premises before the tournament was that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the US could have been competitive alongside some lower tier
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  Speaker 2: European oppositions that with exactly what they did. They beat
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  Speaker 2: Bosnia comfortably, then against Paraguay, the one against Australia they
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  Speaker 2: didn't deserve to lose it against Turkey, had that game matter,
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  Speaker 2: probably the US would have at least got a draw.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's exactly what they are. I still
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  Speaker 2: remember Pochettino before the tournament saying, we don't have any
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  Speaker 2: player in the top fifty of the world make it
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  Speaker 2: into the top hundred. I don't think the US have
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  Speaker 2: got any player in the top under the world. And
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  Speaker 2: we have seen this World Cup. The big players, these
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  Speaker 2: side games. Big players change games, but without without respect.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that the US team has got a
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  Speaker 2: poor team, not at all. I think they are a
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  Speaker 2: competitive team that unfortunately get picked up in the areas
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  Speaker 2: where has been lacking for many years, defense, goalkeepers, and
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly where the mistakes have come from. But ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: when Belgium were able to match them physically, which that's
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  Speaker 2: what made the US very strong in the first few games,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the intensity playing on the front foot. As
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  Speaker 2: soon as Belgium mugin physically, the US basically had no answers.
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  Speaker 2: But not everything is lost. I think they can still improve,
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  Speaker 2: they can still continue with Pochettino. Hope they will. There
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  Speaker 2: is a crop of players that is still young and
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  Speaker 2: can go into the next Gold Cup, into the next
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  Speaker 2: tournament as well with courage. But of course he has
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  Speaker 2: put a spotlight back into soccer, into football again in
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  Speaker 2: the US, and of course you would hope that the
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  Speaker 2: new players will emerge, but I know there are systemic
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  Speaker 2: and organic issues with that. It's not an easy sport
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  Speaker 2: to break into for youngster in the US, So again,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the issue is wider than US one Belgium four.
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  Speaker 3: I think that the issue for Americans, and I feel
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  Speaker 3: comfortable saying this isn't that they lost, because if you.
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  Speaker 4: Watch soccer, you know that Belgium had the better team.
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  Speaker 4: It was hell they lost. It's that they got bullied
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  Speaker 4: off the ball.
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  Speaker 3: It's that our star Christian Polisic didn't care and wanted to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, rest after the game. And they deserved every
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  Speaker 3: piece of criticism that they got. I'm sure you saw
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  Speaker 3: Carly Lloyd saying you rest when your career is over.
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  Speaker 3: And the thing is is that they are ten times
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  Speaker 3: more talented than the teams with Clint Dempsey, Lyndon Donovan
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  Speaker 3: and Tim Howard. But those teams were relentless, they were gutless,
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  Speaker 3: and they never would have been bullied off the ball
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  Speaker 3: in the same way.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's where Americans are freaking out.
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  Speaker 2: No, I agree with you, girl. I think the way
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  Speaker 2: they lost, they didn't lay a globe on Belgium, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, all the shenanigans before with ballagoon suspension rescinded
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  Speaker 2: really did not help them in a way. I think
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  Speaker 2: he put a necessary pressure on the manager and necessary
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  Speaker 2: pressure on the player. Balagun himself, who has been at
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  Speaker 2: the center of a worldwide polemics, and he didn't need it.
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  Speaker 2: It's been, it's been. It's been probably the best player
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  Speaker 2: for the US at this tournament, and it comes off
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  Speaker 2: a very good career. And I think he's a good striker.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a top striker, but he's a good striker
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  Speaker 2: in Europe and he's proving it. Of course, had the
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  Speaker 2: US won the knockout game against Belgium, the polemics would
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  Speaker 2: have been infinite. So in a way, Belgium's win has
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  Speaker 2: put a little bit of water over the fire. It's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit like a fire blanket.
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  Speaker 1: If you like.
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  Speaker 2: But of course the sporting outcome is not what the
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  Speaker 2: Americans wanted, not what they needed. So yeah, more improvements
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  Speaker 2: and more, more, more, more, more development is needed.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get into the eight teams that are left.
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  Speaker 1: That's where we'll spend most of our time. But to
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  Speaker 1: put a final ball on the teams that have been
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  Speaker 1: eliminated the US, maybe our perception right now a bit
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  Speaker 1: on the negative side. What about the other end of
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  Speaker 1: the spectrum, A team, a country that is no longer
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  Speaker 1: in the World Cup right now that you came away
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  Speaker 1: extremely impressed with.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think all the A teams that are in
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  Speaker 2: the quarterfinals, truly dise have to be in the quarter finals.
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  Speaker 2: So there isn't one that I think, ah, shame we're
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  Speaker 2: missing out on such a great team the ones or
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  Speaker 2: that they dese have to be there. I was expecting
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  Speaker 2: more from Japan in a way, and I think they
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  Speaker 2: showed us they can really play to to two against
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  Speaker 2: some of the top nations. I like that to to
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  Speaker 2: draw against the Netherlands. They impose themselves and the first
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  Speaker 2: half against Brazil was extremely good. They dominated. Unfortunately then
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  Speaker 2: they retracted and they did something that basically they're not
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  Speaker 2: used to do, which is defending. They never defended. The
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  Speaker 2: Japanese are not known for Brazilian defending and they haven't
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  Speaker 2: got in them.
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  Speaker 1: So that's one.
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  Speaker 2: And the African teams overall, apart from Morocco which we're
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  Speaker 2: watching tonight against France, yes, nine out of ten came
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  Speaker 2: through the groups, but then only one came through the
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  Speaker 2: round of sixteen. And again I think teams like Senegal
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  Speaker 2: Ivory Coast they need to be smarter in the way
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  Speaker 2: they manage games when they are on top and the
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  Speaker 2: way they defend, and I think they've let themselves down
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. I had more hopes also for Algeria
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  Speaker 2: as well. They looked quite naive at times. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: generally speaking, I think the teams that we got in
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  Speaker 2: the in the top eight are the best teams of
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  Speaker 2: the tournament, so it should be it should be a
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  Speaker 2: great spectacle for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I think in Bird was obviously everyone's kind of sweetheart
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  Speaker 3: of the tournament, most impressed by them. But I want
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  Speaker 3: to talk about the teams you were leased impressed by.
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  Speaker 3: For me, I think the obvious answer has to be
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  Speaker 3: Germany or the Netherlands. Would you agree with that or
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  Speaker 3: is there somebody else that sticks to you? Because I've
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  Speaker 3: on another show that I do have been talking about
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  Speaker 3: for probably the last, you know, almost decade and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Those two teams feel like they have consistently underperformed with
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  Speaker 3: the squads that they've had, especially the Netherlands when they
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  Speaker 3: had Iron Robin and Van Percy, and they just both
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  Speaker 3: continue to disappoint.
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  Speaker 4: I can't really say that about England.
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  Speaker 3: I would say that they'd be in that conversation, But
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  Speaker 3: this tournament in general, is there anyone that really disappointed you.
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  Speaker 2: The Netherlands disappointing me because in the game against Morocco
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  Speaker 2: they did something that they're not used to, surrendering possession
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  Speaker 2: and the Dutch football since the seventies has always been dominating,
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  Speaker 2: controlling the ball. Then of a sudden, Ronald Cooman felt
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  Speaker 2: a bit of each felt fed the fear, and they
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  Speaker 2: led the ball to Morocco and eventually lost on penalties,
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  Speaker 2: which is bad luck, but I think you do make
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  Speaker 2: your own luck. So they were disappointing in that sense.
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  Speaker 2: With Germany, simple they didn't have the team spirit, they
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  Speaker 2: didn't have the drive that is required from them, and
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  Speaker 2: this is a history of many, many disappointments, which led
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  Speaker 2: of course them to the sacking of Julius nagless Man.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, those were disappointing. But the final out is
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  Speaker 2: for Brazil. We didn't we didn't, we knew this was
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  Speaker 2: one of the worst Brazil ever of the last twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five years. But yeah, the way they lost to
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  Speaker 2: Norway again in the second half. Tactically, I feel Ancelotti
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  Speaker 2: made some bad calls when he put namar on. He
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  Speaker 2: deprived Brazil of the of a presence upfront. Neymar plays
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  Speaker 2: like a former player is a former player. It can
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  Speaker 2: only be stick up top. And then we've been issues
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  Speaker 2: and an eric on the flanks. They left themselves too
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  Speaker 2: exposed really to Norway's counter and surrendered to goals. But
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  Speaker 2: again they missed chances to so I think that Brazil
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  Speaker 2: led us down in the in the game better Brazil,
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  Speaker 2: I think they would have taken at least the tie
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  Speaker 2: to extra time and then you know, could have been
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  Speaker 2: decided one way or the other.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good answer. Okay, let's talk about these matches
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  Speaker 3: that we have coming up. Who do you think has
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  Speaker 3: the highest expectations on them? I would say, personally probably England.
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  Speaker 3: I think they have the best roster in the tournament.
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  Speaker 3: Their bench is better than a lot of some of
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  Speaker 3: the entire squads in this tournament. But for some reason,
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  Speaker 3: too many superstars can't figure it out. Easy to say Argentina.
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  Speaker 3: Easy to say France. Who has the highest expectations heading
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  Speaker 3: into this round.
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  Speaker 2: As the tournament has gone so our canra The expectations
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  Speaker 2: are on France because France are considered the team to beat,
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  Speaker 2: and because they've shown consistently that they can play the
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  Speaker 2: better football at this word cup. Now, international football is
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  Speaker 2: very different from club football. In club football, the teams
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  Speaker 2: have got much more time only to be bad in
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  Speaker 2: they are much more sophisticated tactically because obviously they can
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  Speaker 2: work together longer. Here, teams have got few ideas and
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  Speaker 2: they need to implement them in order for them to
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: plan to work. And now France idea is about attack, explosiveness,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: attacking the space, interchangeability or easier number ten, racking up
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: the goals. Some players like Due Barcola, Marcus tram we
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: haven't really appreciated yet because they haven't had a chance.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: So there's so much talent up there. But of course
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: France can be the worst enemy because the pressure is
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: on them and they will be tested against. Morocco are
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: a team that are extremely hard to beat. Now, I
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: think that the way they beat Paraguay has done France
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: a lot of good because you need to come through
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: the scrap, you need to go through the grind.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: In order to work up.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: And that's a great game.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Guy is a great game to win without capitulating, without
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: giving up into the esterea. So France are ugly stronger
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: after that game and they have pressure coming back to England,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I think the pressure is slightly off considering the way
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: they've been playing so far, which has been disappointing in
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: a way. You would have expected England to be able
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: to impose themselves much more in other teams. Instead, they
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: are very clinical, they play on the counter. They're very
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: happy to leave the ball to the other and hit
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: them on the counter because that's the Premier League style.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: That's how Premier League teams do win most of the
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: games really, So coming into these quarterfinals, I would say
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: it's still a lot of pressure in France as well
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: in Spain because they're huge favorites. This is a team
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: in Belgium that they would be expected to beat any
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: day of the week really, and then when it comes
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: of course England Norway is much more balanced and Argentina.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I know we're going to talk about it later, but yeah,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: they come through some rough times as well, I guess.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: So let's talk about the money here, because that's the
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: reason that we are all gathered here today. Dam Ballet
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I believe is leading friends and goals right now. He's
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: plus one seventy five to score in today's game and
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Bobby minus one twenty. I kind of like the den
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Ballet number there.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: What do you think it's due?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I mean he's he's scored four and tricky, I guess
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Norway against a second string Norway. Look, he's a player
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: that perhaps hasn't yet exploded for France at this tournament.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: But it's extremely functional because most of the times he
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: does unselfish runs which draw players and liberate space for
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: both Alisa and Buppe. But he's a great finisher. All
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: the three finishes against Norway, they carry a very low
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: expected goals value, so he can find the goals from
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: many sort of positions. And yeah, it can be of
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: course a threat on the counter as well. France are
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: gonna have chances, of course. I think the Bell is
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: one of the less selfish strikers in that in the
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: France attack, is very happy to do some of the
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: dirty work. Is also very happy to track back to
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: allow to allow Alisa and to stay a little bit
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: more upfront. So maybe that could diminish his tread upfront.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: But you know, yeah, I mean we're talking about a
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: guy that used to score goals domestically internationally, so yeah,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: the price that we're looking at is certainly much more
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: appealing than Kill and Embappe. After all, I mean, all
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: good s tricks come to an end, so you would
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: probably better served by betting on the reigning ballon d'Or
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: for a reason twice a Champions League winner with Champions
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: with wesg for a reason to score a goal against
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: the Morocco. But as we said before, I think tonight
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: is going to be tight. Morocco can do to France
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: what Paraguay did to them better because they go better
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: outlets upfront, They got players who can bring the ball forward.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Then they don't have just to do the dirty job,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: and Morocco can do the dirty job hundred percent, but
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: technically there much better. I think tonight it's very tight.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Very I don't know if this is a strategy that
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I would employ, but I know a lot of folks
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: out there are going to want to do this, so
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts on it. A lot
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of heavy favorites in the quarterfinals. The shortest favorite is
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: minus two twenty five with England, of course, using the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: odds over at draft Kings. I know there will be
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: folks that want to do this. The four favorites parlay
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: to advance. Would you advise for it or against it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: By the way, the number on that all the favorites
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to advance to the next round plus two sixteen.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know if life would be so simple, I'll
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: be boring, Yes, I'll be boring, but sometimes it's boring.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think there is there is a
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: risk that one of those four ties goes the distance,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: goes to extra time, goes to penalties, and then you'll
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: be really risking all the wise very good partly on
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: a tie. They might not be decided in nineteen minutes,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: so yeah, maybe in ninety minutes potentially, because there is
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: the chance to go all the way, I would probably
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: advise against him. The one I most I've got most
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: doubt about it is Franz Morocco, surprisingly because a fine
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Morocco can produce an upset, and of course Norway England,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: because both teams go frailties at the back. They leave
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: themselfelf exposed quite a lot to Norway cannot really keep
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: a clean sheet or a shout out, whatever you want
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: to call it. They considered in nine or the last ten.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: England don't dominate the ball as much as they want to,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: and they do leave themselves exposed. So when you got
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: two teams that are so strong in attack but also
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: so porous at the back and with defensive prialities, the
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: outcome is very difficult to decide. And funny enough, with England,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: if you look at the price, they are shorter now
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: than when they were when they play in Mexico at
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: the Azteca, which for me is a nonsense. Why would
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: they be shorter in a quarter final against Norway, who's
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: been one of the best European sides in the last
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: two years. I know very well because they knocked out Italy,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: so believe me, they're not a fluke.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: And why, I don't know.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: How do you explain why are they short now then
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: when they play at the Azteca only because of the
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Attega I don't know. I think that was another reaction
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: maybe from the book makers.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I think Norway is probably the team for me that
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I think can't take one of these favorites. And for me,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: it's because England has so many stars. I think there's
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: a lot of divas, there's a lot of people who
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: want to be the hero. But for Norway, not only
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: do they have chemistry, they like each other and they're united,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: but everybody has a role and they play that role.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: They know who their star is and they let their
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: star be their star. How much do you think that
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: that could play into this game here? Just I think
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: that the corner cat, they don't feel like cornered cats.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I think that's the difference with for Morocco. For me,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: they know that they're expected to lose this game, so
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: they're allowed to play free and lose, play their game
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: and if.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: They lose, that's the expectation. But with Norway, I don't
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: think they feel that way. They feel united, they have
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: a leader and they play through their leader. How do
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: you play into here?
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Absolutely? I think they do feel they come a long way,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: but Norway feels the batteries yet to come. I mean
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: they do feel there is still a lot of story
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: to write. And going back to Morocco, w as they
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: might be the underdog people in Morocco, I don't think
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: they feel they are there for the take in Morocco
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: has evolved a lot in the last four years and
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: they got the World Cup at home to come, so yes,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: of course against France the underdog, but I mean they
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: feel they can go to tour with them going back
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: to Norway, look, most of the threat is Ireland. If
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: you norllify Island, Norway doesn't win. The stats are very
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: very clear. Every time the Halland score they win ninety
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: percent of the games. When he doesn't score, they don't win.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: But it's easily said than done neulyfying Island, especially because
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: he's gonna play against the two fellow teammates Marc Gay
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: and Johnstones, which he knows very well from Manchester City,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: so they know all about each other. And yeah, as
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I said, against a backline of England that does concede chances.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: But the nice things about Norway is that, apart from
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Holland and all the guard, none of the players about
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the stellar season domestically, apart from the good plays for us.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: You think season, I don't know, it's down out guard.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: I thought he had a down season for.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: What his for a he's a Premier League winner, so
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I would put it down as a good season. It's
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: been injured a lot, but it's true it has been
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: injured a lot, but in the key moment for Arsenal,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: he was there. So if you take away those two,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: the other players haven't a great season yet when they
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: come with the national team. As you mentioned, they all
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: have a role, they all know what to do and
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: they are a very very cohesive unit which implements the
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: game plan extremely well. I expect Norway against England to
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: avoid the mistakes that they did against Brazil. They had
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the ball a lot, They dominated the possession a lot,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: which I think, in a way kind of rewrote the
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: story of football twenty five years ago. If you're old
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: enough to remember, you would have never thought Norway going
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: to have the ball more than Brazil, would you. I
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: don't remember watching Norway Brazil at World Cup nineteen ninety eight.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I was a teenager and Brazil dominated. Now twenty five
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: years song is completely different. But however, when they had
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: the ball, they left themselves exposed to the counter because
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: they didn't have a lot of end product. Then in
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: the second half they put on Oscar Bob and Sideloup
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: on the wings that they leave across from Aland and
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: they were much more threatening. And I think that's what
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: they're going to try to do with England. Perhaps trying
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: to leave the ball to England for them to come
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: out is a fascinating game. It could be a high
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: tempo game. Therefore, you know, mistakes might happen from each side,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: therefore it could be a high scoring one as well.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: You already know one of the more popular bets out
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: there is going to be earlying Howland to score goal
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: plus one ten over on DraftKings for that. Belgium was
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: clearly motivated by the controversial overturned red card for Balligan.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Whether that's why they beat the United States is a
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: different debate, but they were obviously motivated by it. But
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: do you see Belgium as a team that's now dangerous
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: that maybe they have awoken themselves and are realizing their
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: potential or was that was just a Was it a
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: properly motivated team given the circumstances. What kind of shot
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: do you give for them against Spain, who tend to
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: want to suffocate their opponents.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: They were very underwhelming until they played the US. They
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: were one of the worst European sides in the competition,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: so really the bar wasn't really high. But they lift
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: themselves and they did well against the US and now
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: they don't have any pressure whatsoever. Nobody expects Belgium to qualify.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Nobody expects anything from Belgium apart from getting beaten and
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I mean that it's a really really important factor for them.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Belgium for years has been the underperformers, the underachievers of Europe,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: that so called Golden Generation. Now for once they don't
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: have the pressure on them. However, they do play a
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Spain side wasn't considered a single goal in the tournament
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: so far. That keeps the ball extremely well and in
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: order to be it's Spain, you need to withstand pressure
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: for thirty forty minutes during the game. You need to
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: be strong defensively. These Belgium side are not strong defensively
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: and they're gonna miss one of the most important midfielders,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Amadu Nana, who is extremely physical and Robtorys Ruptury is
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: acl But you know, give a bit of credit to
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Belgium manager Rudy Garcia for changing information during the World Cup.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Not many managers do it and he has left the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: browing out dog out. He understands look up with much
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: more effective coming from the bench. So this is credit
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: to him for rejigging it. However, when it comes to
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: the clash with Spain, can they score Belgium, I think
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: they can because I don't think anyone can go so
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: long without conceding a goal. I think, yeah, the statistic
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: from Spain are a little bit deceptive, but equally I
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: think they will concede a couple against the Spain team
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: that yeah, utterly dominates, and we still haven't seen probably
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: the best from Leminamal and other Spain players, but so
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: far they didn't need it.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I am intrigued by the total there, the under two
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and a half plus one oh five. Three of the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: five matches Spain has been a part of, they've totaled
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: one goal or less in in total, not just in
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: terms of what they've been giving up, which as you mentioned,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: has been quite impressive. Is the under two and a
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: half a good look here? Or do you like Belgium's
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: chances to score a little bit too much to take
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the dive on that?
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: No? I like the both to score here. If I
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: have to to take a better like the boat to
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: score or Spain to score at least a couple of goals,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: as I said, and they are far too good for
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: this Belgium defense not to score a couple of goals
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: and Belgium could be could hurt them, could hurt them.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: But yeah, in a high scoring game, Spain wins nine
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: out of ten times.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: What do you think about the bench management here?
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Obviously it's going to be a game field, game time decision,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: but having Lukaku Kadieb off the bench, what are you
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: expecting lineup wise from them and how could that affect
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: the total?
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I would expect Look to start on the bench to
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Belgium for goal, will look a Baccuo who's much better
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: a stretching, defensing and running behind. So if they're playing
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: on the counter, it's better to have Look a Baque there.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Doku is an interesting one because he hasn't played recently.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: By is the outlet again on the right hand side
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: or in the left hand side That can provide them
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: with a bit more pace. But I would expect Kevin
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: de Bruyne to be on the bench as well. Belgium
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: are not gonna have the ball here. Kevin de brune
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: is better suited when the temple goes down in the
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: second half. If the game goes the distance, then his
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: experience can be important. But yes, it will be interesting
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: to see who replaces on Anna, but I don't think
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be Kevin. The Bruner, Ruskin and Tilemans will
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: play the Bruyn on the bench. Lookau in the second
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: half can give Spain defense, the likes of kubar Ce,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: the likes of La Porte. Really something to think about
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: is physically, but yeah, from the beginning, now I wants it.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about the hottest of the entire tournament and
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: is it fixed for Argentina.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: I am in the camp of yes. Do you think
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: the almost I don't want to.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Say lock because that feels journey to say on a
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: podcast like ours. Do you think that they're guaranteed to
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: move on here because they are a cash cow?
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: But I mean the strong favorites to move on because
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: they play a team that is rund nineteen in the
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: world in Switzerland and they are dead. Yeah, they look
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: beautible and they don't unless unless again completely turning around.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I'm waiting to see whether switzerland best
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: player Jonathan Matzambi's fit to play. They look a bit
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: different outlet with him on the pitch, but without him
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: against Colombia they look fairly toothless. But credit to them
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: for sticking to a good game plan and taking the
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: game to penalty. Going back to Argentina, yes, I mean
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: they're a very very easy route into these quarter finals,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: so they play very modest teams. I've seen the average
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: FIFA ranking of their opponents was twenty eight so far,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: so really very simple for them. But they gave themselves
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: a scare against Capo Verdi against Egypt. However, against Egypt,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: when the game was too nil, I never had the
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: feeling they were gonna go out after ninety minutes. I
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: always felt they had something in them. They do have
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: something in them. Look, if this was a league, if
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: the World Cup was a league, a thirty eight games league,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't put Argentina in the top three because I
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: don't think they got the consistenty to win a league,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: if you know what I mean. But because it's only
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: a month and now we only got three games left,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: and they got that coasiveness, they got that team spirit,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: they got that belief, that momentum they can beat anyone.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Of course, they need to play better than they did
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: against against Cabo Verdi and against Egypt, but they did
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: do look inspired. And yes they have many flows. They
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: don't have a lot of pays upfront. The strikers don't
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: score bar messy, they don't even take shots, bar messy.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Messy capitalizes everything. But they play for them and they
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: are just in a way that they make the most
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: or the most talented player that there is a tournament.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: So if there is a ball, he want to fall
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: into message fit because it's probably going to give you
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: an assist or it's going to convert. I don't make
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: them favorites to win the tournament, and don't think it's
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: rigged in the favor The referee took some dubious decisions,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: let's put it this way, but Francois Lexitier is one
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: of the best referees in Europe. So the problem is
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: that there are some inconsistencies with br and we could
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: talk about this for hours and hours and hours. I
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: make them favorites against Switzerland, for sure, Switzerland are look
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: a bit flat unless unless the I mean the main
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: man is back to go to advance and to win
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: the Work Cup. No, I don't. I don't make them feel.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Messy goal a game. What are your thoughts on the
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: Golden Boot race right now?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: They keep delivering. They keep delivering, so it's about to
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: get knocked out first with them, Pappa with Cane, with
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Alan with Messy. I mean it's a it's on a
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: knife edge. Really, I don't think no one else is
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  Speaker 2: gonna He's gonna win it. Caine has been impressive also
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  Speaker 2: for the way he has played for his teammates and
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  Speaker 2: for the way he stepped up in crucial moments. Messy
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  Speaker 2: is the centerpiece of Argentina. Everyone revolves around him. For Alan,
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  Speaker 2: the same could be said, and of course is A
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  Speaker 2: is extremely motivated for it just seems mature is taken
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  Speaker 2: one more step towards maturity again a leader. I really
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  Speaker 2: like the way he reacted and interacted against Paraguay. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't drag let himself drag in to the polemics, into
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  Speaker 2: the shine against so everyone. I got the strengths, the fortitude,
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  Speaker 2: But you know, on it's on a knife edge. I
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  Speaker 2: think one of these four teams is gonna get knocked out.
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  Speaker 2: But one for sure, either England or Noway's gonna get
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  Speaker 2: knocked out. So we can only we will be left
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  Speaker 2: with three or two. So it depends if you believe
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  Speaker 2: Morocco can cause an upset, then it's between Messy and
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  Speaker 2: Kine or aland that that's that's how I'm sitting on
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  Speaker 2: a very high fence, you know. But that's the most
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  Speaker 2: difficult one to say.
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  Speaker 1: You got the world's best talent to choose from, so
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  Speaker 1: I can understand that.
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  Speaker 2: It is difficult. They all take penalties for their team
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  Speaker 2: maybe odd text and for Norway Massy miss is a
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  Speaker 2: few penalties to Caine missus penalties at some times. So
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  Speaker 2: I mean they do have the flows. They're not perfect,
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  Speaker 2: but we're looking at seven goals scored in one in
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  Speaker 2: five games. This is so far the highest scoring World
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  Speaker 2: Cup since nineteen seventy, with an average of two point
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  Speaker 2: ninety six goals per game. So the goals are gonna come.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna continue. I cannot really see any games finishing
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  Speaker 2: Neil Neil, hence the bet on a top goal scorer
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  Speaker 2: Golden boot. It's very, very difficult.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that that says more about the talent
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  Speaker 3: of striker that's being produced right now or we're the
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  Speaker 3: state of goalkeeping and.
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  Speaker 2: Defense as well. In the world these days, there are
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  Speaker 2: very very few top class defenders and because defending has changed,
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  Speaker 2: defenders from twenty five years ago were just defenders, what
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  Speaker 2: to my mark, where to win headers, cleared the ball.
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  Speaker 2: In the last few years we've seen defenders ask to
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  Speaker 2: bring the ball forward to also become playmakers, to be
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  Speaker 2: good with the fits. The full backs are no longer
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  Speaker 2: full backs, they are wingers really, so everything has changed.
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  Speaker 2: So when is down to one on one duels, if
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  Speaker 2: the defenders wins eight out of ten duels, that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: But if he loses those two duals, those are two
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  Speaker 2: goals that these teams might concede. So even brilliant defenders
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  Speaker 2: you've seen, you know, Markinos, Gabrielle Magayanz from Brazil, they
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  Speaker 2: lost the duel against Alin and unscored. So it's the
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  Speaker 2: way football as a bold. But these strikers are of
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  Speaker 2: course favored because of the pace the game is played,
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  Speaker 2: because a lot of teams play from the back, so
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  Speaker 2: they can make mistake as well because of the team
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  Speaker 2: presses as well. Goalkeepers wise, we have seen excellent goalkeeping,
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  Speaker 2: especially from African teams from Kurasao.
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  Speaker 4: The entire tournament has been wonderful for.
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  Speaker 2: Keepers exactly exactly, but I mean, and that's been great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it still remains much more difficult to stick
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  Speaker 2: the ball in the back of the net then keeping
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  Speaker 2: it out, for sure, but the level of defending, the
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  Speaker 2: level of acts and how we change obviously favors goals
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  Speaker 2: and teams who play on the front foot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think some of that's going to play out
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  Speaker 1: And Daniela, since we've got you here, we will start
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  Speaker 1: with you. What do you have for me?
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  Speaker 2: It's not in England. Both team to score. Yes, the
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  Speaker 2: price might not be huge, but I think this is
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  Speaker 2: probably the most likely outcome between two teams that are
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  Speaker 2: explosive going forward. England got plenty of options, but so
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  Speaker 2: do I have Norway, who can also rely on the
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  Speaker 2: likes of sword Lot coming on the second half. Antonio Nouza,
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  Speaker 2: good winger, played for Live six, so they do have
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  Speaker 2: of course apart from Holland, but they have got flows
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  Speaker 2: in defense. No, none of these two teams can come
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  Speaker 2: all the games as much as they want to. England
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  Speaker 2: might have issues a right buck still with Riz James
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  Speaker 2: slightly unfit a center box two and Norway let's not
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  Speaker 2: forget they were saved by Oira and Nyland in the
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  Speaker 2: game against Brazil. They haven't kept only one clean sheet
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  Speaker 2: in the last ten. They are a Porus team. It
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  Speaker 2: could be a one to one. I mean one one
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  Speaker 2: is a cagey game, but both team to score probably
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  Speaker 2: is the most likely outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I like that quite a bit because I am
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  Speaker 1: on a similar type of bet. I'm gonna take over
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: two and a half goals in Norway and England. Defense
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  Speaker 1: appears to be the Achilles Heel for Norway and that
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  Speaker 1: does not bode well for a team going up against
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  Speaker 1: the likes of Harry, Kane and Kendra. At the moment
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  Speaker 1: will tell us how good Holland has been getting the
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: ball in the back of the net. You gotta lay
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  Speaker 1: a minus one thirty, but I'd be shocked if we
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: don't get at least three goals in this matchup. So
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: we are cooking up quite the same game. Partly Parlay,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, which was accidental by Kendre go ahead
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  Speaker 1: up put the icing on the cake for us.
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  Speaker 3: I know everybody's high on Holland right now, but it
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  Speaker 3: goes back to my assessment that this team runs through
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  Speaker 3: him and if they score, it's going to be him,
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  Speaker 3: and he just has a nose for the ball. It's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just that he scores, it's how he scores
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  Speaker 3: at times. So I think that if Norway is going
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  Speaker 3: to put the ball in the back of the net,
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  Speaker 3: He's the answer and the only answer. And I'm getting
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: positive money on it, so I'm going to take it.
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  Speaker 1: I am a little surprised by that. But if you
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: slam these three together, a nice correlated parlay both teams
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  Speaker 1: to score over two and a half goals in the
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  Speaker 1: match and Holland to be in any time goal scorer
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate the insight.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, a pleasure to be with you.
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