AFCON is go! Mbappé equals Ronaldo’s record, plus praise for Leeds and Aston Villa!
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
AFCON kicked off in Rabat, as Morocco opened with a 2-0 over Comoros in a game that featured an incredible overhead from Ayoub El Kaabi.
Musa and Ryan begin there, before chatting about Kylian Mbappé, who equalled Cristiano Ronaldo’s Real Madrid record for goals in a calendar year (05:28), as well as how impressive his time at the Bernabéu has been, despite getting off to a tricky start.
Next up, it’s Leeds’ turn to get the props (18:32), after another great result, this time to Crystal Palace, that sees a great run from Daniel Farke’s side continue. There’s chat about the rest of the Premier League, including Aston Villa’s win over Manchester United (24:07), wins for the top two, Liverpool’s win at Spurs (33:37) and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Stadio podcast. I'm Issa Konga. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm Ryan Hunt. Ryan, how you doing? |
| 0:27.1 | Doing all right. Thanks, man. How are you? |
| 0:28.5 | Good, good. All things considered. Looking forward to Christmas. |
| 0:32.5 | Winding down nicely. Nice. Well, we hope everyone staying safe and well, wherever you are. |
| 0:36.9 | Quick bit of admin. |
| 0:38.7 | Don't forget if you want to listen to the Football Things to be grateful for episode, |
| 0:43.6 | the Stadios ad-free, and also an extra podcast that's coming on Christmas Eve. |
| 0:48.2 | You can do that on the Stadio Patreon, patreon.com forward slash stadio. |
| 0:52.6 | And also you can check the first edition of the rebooted newsletter that went out on Friday night. |
| 0:57.0 | Show schedule for the next week. |
| 0:59.1 | Christmas Eve, we will have a show with a guest. |
| 1:03.8 | Maybe not talking so much about football. |
| 1:05.8 | Maybe not. |
| 1:06.3 | Maybe not. |
| 1:07.5 | Should be fun. |
| 1:07.8 | Football things to be grateful for episode will go up on Christmas Day. And then the Stadios will go up on the 29th. And then we will have a very, very quick episode that will go up on the year's day. And then back to normal on the 5th. So today, we're going to talk about Killing and Bappe. We're going to talk a a little bit about Leeds, just to give them some props. Yeah. We'll touch you a little bit on Villas Winover Manchester United, a couple of other results, and then we're going to get out of it. Let's do it. But there is only one place to begin, and there literally is only one place to begin. That's in Rabat. Yes. Afcon is Go and oh my God. It's so |
| 1:49.8 | loud. It's been a while since I've had that level of football fomo. Opening night of |
| 1:56.4 | Afcon at the hosts, proper football weather. Clattering down.armor's making a game of it just in terms |
| 2:02.9 | of like very resilient and morocca coming through two nil looked and sounded amazing it's funny |
| 2:07.9 | because obviously i'll be in rabat for those few um days in the middle of the afcon i think the start |
| 2:14.8 | the second round the thing is i would have felt guilty it sounds ridiculous but there but there's almost an element of guilt and even looking for tickets for this game. Because part of me is like, this is for them. Like, this is for them. It's incredible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I completely get you. I almost feel like everyone in that stadium. And I'm not normally like this. I must feel like everyone in that stadium. Like like as many Moroccan people that should get, can get tickets, should get them for that game. |
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