Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, World Cup Daily. Day 28 of World Cup 2018 is done.

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It helps people find us. In this episode I'm also joined by former Spanish star Geiscombe Indietta.

Odd work!

Let's bring in Brian Strauss, who is still in St. Petersburg.

Still!

I'm at the Hotel California.

But coming back to Moscow tomorrow,

we're going to talk now about tonight's semi-final.

Croatia 2, England 1 in extra time.

This was a more dramatic game than the one we saw last night I thought. What was your sense?

Yeah absolutely I mean the the game last night which I was lucky to be at was high levellevel, you know, professional tactical, cagey. This was kind of a bit more

chaotic. These are teams that didn't necessarily expect to be here. You know England started strong and

obviously wilted and really had trouble stringing passes together from from

halftime on. Croatia is just like a bunch of terminators.

They didn't use any subs, man.

They've played the equivalent of an entire extra game in this tournament.

They're just a team of monsters.

And yeah, it was chaotic and obviously, you know, decided on a play in overtime by man zucich that just caught

England just a touch flat-footed and he did what Center Forward is supposed to do

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