Dele's diagnosis and the joy of watching Russia
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The Times
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🗓️ 19 June 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Host nation Russia are as good as qualified for the last 16 of the World Cup, for the first time ever. Natalie Sawyer is joined by Alyson Rudd and James Gheerbrant as Mo Salah’s Egypt are set to head home.
With Dele Alli suffering a thigh strain, former Liverpool physio Mark Leather gives his prognosis on the severity of the injury, while Henry Winter updates us from his log cabin at the England camp.
Martyn Ziegler takes in Senegal’s victory over Poland and has been speaking to FIFA about VAR while we also bring you the story of the Iranian women set to watch their team play for the very first time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game World Cup Daily from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer and |
| 0:14.0 | thank you for joining us. We are here every match day of the World Cup |
| 0:17.3 | podcasting after 10 o'clock UK time every night. Thank you so much for those of |
| 0:21.6 | you who have been tuning in. I understand we've been listened to in 128 countries. |
| 0:27.0 | We are so cosmopolitan. A special shout out to our one listener in Ecuador. |
| 0:31.0 | We can't promise we'll get around to discussing Los Amarylos |
| 0:33.7 | with the team not being at the World Cup but you never know. We'll give it a try. |
| 0:37.4 | Joining me this evening Times football writer James Geerbrandt in the studio and |
| 0:42.0 | in Kazan, Allison Rod. Martin Ziegler joins us from Moscow |
| 0:45.8 | where Senegal have become the first African nation to take victory at this tournament. |
| 0:50.0 | Japan also became the first Asian nation to beat a South American side at a World Cup. |
| 0:54.7 | Plus Henry Winter joins us the morning after the night before from the England camp with further reaction |
| 0:59.5 | to that last minute win over Tunisia. |
| 1:01.7 | Very shortly, we'll be talking about the host Russia who |
| 1:04.2 | are as good as through to the last 16 for the first time ever after victory over Egypt. |
| 1:08.8 | But we start with the big news breaking this evening as we record which is that Delhi Ali |
| 1:14.0 | suffered a thigh strain in that victory for England potentially putting his |
| 1:18.8 | World Cup at risk. Allison questions naturally are going to be asked of Garris Southgate and whether he should have |
| 1:25.8 | kept Ali on the pitch for so long. |
| 1:27.8 | I mean, it's certainly clear he was injured after what, around half an hour in that game. |
| 1:31.3 | In hindsight, it seems a ludicrous thing, |
| 1:34.2 | the manager to have done. |
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