Euro Leagues: Dark horses Norway & should domestic football have fixtures abroad?

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Alistair Bruce-Ball is joined by Julien Laurens, Guillem Ballague and Mina Rzouki to discuss how European sides have fared in World Cup qualifying.

Can we consider Norway dark horses after their 11-1 thrashing of Moldova? Are there any weaknesses in European champions, Spain? Will Italy qualify for their first World Cup in three cycles?

Steve Cooper is in his first job since being sacked by Leicester City, how will he make his mark on the Danish Superliga? And can Cremense ‘do a Leicester’ with new signing Jamie Vardy?

The team debate league matches being played abroad as the Spanish FA approve plans for Villareal v Barcelona to be played in Miami, USA.

Plus, why are PSG and the French national team in disagreement?

Time codes: 2’23 Steve Cooper joins Brondby 4’41 Are Norway World Cup dark horses? 11’25 Are Spain already World Cup favourites? 18’14 What’s happening with Camp Nou? 21’20 Should domestic league matches be played abroad? 33’12 Derby d’Italia weekend 35’50 Age is just a number for Modric and Vardy 48’30 PSG/ French national team disagreement

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0:43.1	Domestic football returns in the top leagues across the continent this weekend.
0:47.1	Plenty for us to discuss, though, from the international break.
0:50.5	And for this episode, I'm in the company of Julianne Laurent, Guillain Balagay and
0:54.7	Mina Azuki, who is yet to join us, but she'll be with us shortly. So first of all,
0:59.9	Jules, after the international break, refreshed and rejuvenated or exhausted and rung out?
1:05.0	Always. You know me, Ali. Always. And also, I'm looking forward to, you know, I know you're
1:09.8	preparing for the golf and the Ryder Cup coming up very soon. And this is exciting, even as us football fans are working in football. So there's so much good sport coming up, including the Champions League that is also back next week on the BBC as well, because we will have much of the day as we did last season. So this is very exciting. So international break was good, but club football is back, and that's also very good news.
1:31.1	Yeah, that is top-top BBC plug-in as well, Jules, four Champions League commentaries on Five Live
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