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Gab & Juls Show: Are Spain World Cup favourites?

ESPN FC

ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss why Spain, France & England are the current bookies favourites to win the World Cup in 2026 and discuss who would make a combined XI of the three sides. The guys also discuss Portugal’s late win over Ireland, Gianni Infantino’s political posturing & whether Jordan Pickford is a better goalkeeper for England than Gordon Banks.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Gabby's Jules.

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Great skies over West London, but not grace guys in the studio.

0:42.2

Jules,

0:42.5

Happy belated birthday, Jules.

0:44.6

Thank you very much.

0:45.4

And let's get straight into these internationals,

0:48.4

because there's, there's, there is a lot going on.

0:50.9

Um, but I want to take a step back today.

0:59.9

And Booky's favorites for the World Cup. For the World Cup.

1:07.0

2026 are in order, Spain, England, and France. And then after that, it's Brazil and the current world champions, Argentina. Okay. Now, bearing in mind that odds are often determined by flows of money and stuff like that and that the World Cup is far into the future and who's good now might not be good. They may not be fit. They might not be on foreign, blah, blah, blah. All these caveats out of the way. Are we in agreement that these are the three best teams in the world, first of all, Spain, England and France?

1:28.6

Yeah, I think so.

1:29.4

I mean, I will put Argentina in the same bracket pretty much.

1:33.8

The messy factor, obviously, depends a lot on how Argentina do and what kind of form

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