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Sunday Supplement

England's 1-0 defeat to Belgium, a last-16 tie with Colombia and whether they are on the 'easy' side of the World Cup draw

Sunday Supplement

Sky Sports

News, Sports, Sports News, Soccer

3.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Neil Ashton is joined by Matt Dickinson, chief sports writer at the Times, and Guardian football writer Dominic Fifield to analyse England's defeat to Belgium and look ahead to their last-16 tie with Colombia. The panel also discuss the major talking points from the World Cup and which teams are favourites for the title after the group stage. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sunday Supplement Podcast brought to you by Bet 365 and at Bet 365 they don't do ordinary.

0:07.4

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0:16.2

Please gamble responsibly, over 18s only. Hello, welcome to episode 4 of the World Cup Sunday Supplement Podcast.

0:27.0

We're in Killing Ingrad.

0:28.0

It's the morning after England's 1-0 defeat to Belgium.

0:31.0

I'm joined by Matt Dickinson, he's chief sports writer at the Times.

0:34.2

Morning, Dom Firefield from the Guardian, his London football writer is here

0:38.3

covering England at the World Cup. Morning to you, Dom as well.

0:41.5

Um, guys, let's just let's just talk quickly about,

0:44.1

well, your instant reaction analysis

0:46.5

and summary of what happened last night in England's defeat.

0:50.6

Anti-climax, too many changes, too disruptive, I think it's exposed the depth of squad quality

0:59.2

that we've got, it feels a bit of a waste, but in all having said all that it could end up being a

1:05.6

pastor strike in terms of us being in the right half of the draw it's just a matter of

1:10.3

picking themselves up and it's all critical now against Columbia on Tuesday.

1:14.0

Yeah, Matt?

1:15.0

Yeah, similar.

1:16.0

I mean I used the word deflating last night.

1:17.0

It felt like that.

1:18.0

It felt like a bit of the sort of air had gone out, but you know, Gareth Southgate came in and one thing he certainly is very good at is explaining a strategy and it's a strategy that will be much discussed but he had a plan in mind he said it there. But it was a weird game, wasn't it? I mean,

1:35.2

Belgian fans cheering their own players being booked and Marcus Rashford ending up at right wingback.

1:40.8

I referred to the 1990 England Belgian game at the World Cup that was a humdinger

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