Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, World Cup Daily.

Day 13 of World Cup 2018 is done.

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Oddward!

All right, let's bring in Brian Strauss from the Loznicki Stadium Media Center.

I'm here in Red Square, Brian Wild Knight again for the second straight night at World Cup 2018.

Argentina is through. What's your sense of this whole thing?

Well I mean I covered the France Denmark game so I'm sort of irrelevant today. I'm one of maybe five or six people that's still here in the vast media center in this vast stadium and I think every single person is just kind of

depressed that we watched that's news fest between France and Denmark when

obviously everything that happened afterward was just dramatic and again you know two nights in a row now that we've

had complete mayhem and these simultaneous group deciders and and I covered a game that if it was still going on now would still be scoreless.

I mean when you think about it's funny last night there was so much madness and in the end the two favorites Spain and Portugal advanced

tonight there was so much madness and in the end the two favorites Croatia and

Argentina advanced but it's not just a thing for the favorites to have advanced.

I mean, Argentina feels like they've come through some sort of chaotic odyssey

of just crushing psychosis. I'm trying to come up with other words here, but like it's been quite a journey. Yeah, I think we all figuratively have Javier Macharas

blood on us after following this team through the group.

I actually covered their first two games games so maybe I was the bad

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