Club World Cup Bracketology

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The FC crew react to Manchester City's 5-2 victory over Juventus and argue if being on the easier side of the bracket matters. Plus, Rob Dawson joins the show to break down a few players stuck at their current club looking for moves away. Nedum Onuoha also reacts to Denzel Dumfries & Marcos Acuna clashing during Inter's 2-0 victory over River Plate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.4	Welcome into the latest edition of ESPNFC. I'm Dan Thomas, joined by Craig Burley.
0:39.2	We'll kick things off in Orlando, Florida. Manchester City take on the eventus.
0:43.9	The winner of this game would finish top of the group and arguably be on the easiest side of the bracket.
0:50.0	And there was only one winner pretty much right from the start.
0:52.0	Manchester City were excellent throughout this tie. Five different goals scorers for Pep Galliola's side. Doku would open the
0:59.2	scoring, then a known goal. We see Erling Harland in the Phil Foden, Savino as well, to give
1:05.0	Manchester City five goals, which guarantees them top spot in Group G. For more on this, we welcome in Nadia manure, but we'll kick things off with Alexis and Rob,
1:14.8	who are at the game.
1:16.6	Alexis, an impressive performance from the Premier League side.
1:22.1	Yeah, Dan, I don't think Pep Guardiola could have asked for much more.
1:25.1	Three from three, you spoke to Pep Guardiola yesterday,
1:27.9	asked him about the pressure of putting out a good performance in this game against such a big club,
1:32.2	especially after the season that they had. And Rob, they were dominant.
1:35.8	They were. I mean, I think that's quite a big statement, really, because this was the hardest game in the group.
1:40.2	They had to win to finish top of Group G and get into the easier side of the draw and they
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