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Croatian Hearts Crushed

ESPN FC

ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew look back on Portugal's exhilarating 2-1 comeback win against Croatia in the Round of 32. Plus, the guys breakdown Spain's convincing 3-0 win against Austria, setting up a Portugal vs Spain matchup in the Round of 16. Also, was Folarin Balogun's red card the right position, how will the USMNT adjust without him against Belgium. Lastly, Switzerland advances after a 2-0 win against Algeria. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.3

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0:38.7

Fortunately, in our special air conditions studio, we're nice and cool here as a welcoming.

0:44.0

Craig Bulley's been doing sports seven on the roof all day.

0:46.1

You can imagine he's enjoyed that.

0:47.5

It's with us, Wrangler Booth and Kieran Gibbs.

0:50.3

Great day of World Cup action.

0:51.5

We're reflecting on those two other games later on in the show,

0:54.4

but we'll kick things off with a match that just Portugal against Croatia, incredible game,

1:00.3

an incredible ending, so many narratives going into this, and then at the end, once again,

1:06.4

giving us so many storylines. If we just start overall, Craig, we can't start overall actually. We

1:11.8

got to start with the way that it ended. It just must have been devastating for the Croatian

1:17.1

players who thought they'd forced extra time. Yeah, and they all went running as you would

1:22.5

and jumped on each other and thought they'd salvaged it and VR had a look at the offside, which it was

1:28.9

offside. They had a little nick on the ball as the cross came in. They have technology to clean

1:34.1

these things up now, so it was the correct call. I've got to give both teams a lot of credit. A couple

1:40.1

of things I've got to give a lot of credit for, a credit too. Roberto Martinez, but I'll get to him.

1:45.5

Croatia, I never thought for a second, having watched them being totally outplayed by England,

1:49.9

particularly in the second half, that they were going to give this multi-talented Portugal side

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