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Gab and Juls: Who Are the Dark Horses of the World Cup?

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4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens have made it to Qatar ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The guys look ahead to the first round of matches in the group stage and give out a few teams who they think could be the "dark horses" of the tournament. Plus, reaction to Manchester United exploring options to terminate Cristiano Ronaldo's hat trick and quick hits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Gab, he's Jules. I have no idea what the weather is in West London because that's

0:10.7

what Jules. We're not in West London. We're in Doha. It's dark outside. I just arrived

0:15.4

for those who've been here. It is the Gab and Jules show. We'll be getting into so many

0:19.2

things with John Ronaldo, Sadio Mane. But Jules, let's step away from the day today and

0:24.9

let's remind ourselves there is a world cup that is going to take place in what? Less than 48

0:30.8

hours. Incredible. It's just days. We're almost there. I am. I'll be going to the opening

0:35.5

game, Qatar against Ecuador. We thought in this first segment, it might be fun to talk

0:40.8

a little bit about who are the favorites. Yeah, let's do it. It's a preview without being

0:45.3

like a two foot on preview. We're not going to do boring group-like group thing where people

0:49.0

switch off because oh, Morocco, whatever. No, I want to know who you fancy. Maybe you

0:54.7

pick two countries where you think have the best chance to go to the world. I will very

0:57.9

easily do that. I will pick Brazil. Yeah. And I will pick. I would have picked France,

1:05.5

but it cannot get over this that lightning cannot strike twice. Like, did you just

1:09.8

jump? Cannot be forest comp. Two world cups in a row can happen. So I'm going to pick

1:15.2

Argentina as my alternative. But with the caveat, the best team almost never wins the world

1:19.9

cup. Yeah, maybe, maybe. However, I would argue that you two are very big favorites. And

1:25.3

I completely understand your picks. I will certainly have picked one of the two in Argentina

1:31.1

who I think will be Brazilian and semi-final as they can face each other. They both finish

1:34.1

first in their group. I will pick France, of course, because as you said, it's really

1:37.9

red. We went back to back war cups. The last country to do it was Brazil in 1962 to show

1:41.8

you how hard it is. It looked like it in 1934, 1938, I was even before.

1:46.9

And if you look at the last three workups, the holders crashed out in the group stage every

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