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Gab & Juls Show: What’s happened to Spain?

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Sports, Soccer

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti is joined by Mark Ogden to discuss Spain’s shock defeat to Scotland in European qualifying and asks whether the former World Cup and Euro champions may not qualify for next year’s tournament. The guys also look ahead to Thomas Tuchel’s first challenge as Bayern manager, take a closer look at Gerard Pique’s Kings League and ask whether Marcus Rashford will sign a new deal with Manchester United. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And Gab, no jewels today. So we get the next best thing. We get the Northern jewels.

0:10.3

It's Mark Ogden, Blue Skies over West London, but we have quite a lot going on. Even though

0:15.8

it's international, we're going to look back at some of the international's. We'll be

0:18.7

talking about what's going on with Spurs, with a lot of contract issues as well, Rashford,

0:25.2

Mecha, a lot of stuff going on. And of course, Leonardo Messi's goal scoring record.

0:29.9

I know you have something to talk about, but let's start with, I think probably the

0:34.2

biggest upset of this international break. Scotland beating Spain, 2-0, it got feisty,

0:42.1

it got ill tempered at the end. And we'll get to that. But for me, fundamentally,

0:47.9

this is Spain. We all talked about how interesting Luis Enrique was and whatever,

0:53.5

how much talent they have, the football that they can play, but then they don't finish.

0:58.4

And then most of the La Frente, Andy gets his backside handed to him. In terms of result,

1:03.0

maybe even more than performance. Yeah, I mean, look back to the World Cup, I think

1:06.9

they were not tired. It was obvious that Spain had regressed quite a bit in terms of

1:09.9

the scene that had no cutting edge. And it was just the old past, past, past, not really

1:12.9

going anywhere with it. And I think they need to develop that, I need to find a way to

1:17.0

find the way to score goals, and I think, and again, Scotland, it was very obvious that

1:20.7

they lacked to cut an edge. I mean, hopefully they all had a couple of good chances.

1:23.5

But I just felt that this was the Spain that we all remember from pre-2010 when they were

1:29.8

always near misses. You know, they always had a little bit of a soft centre. And it didn't

1:33.7

really, a surprise when it's Scotland won, certainly the score line, but it didn't surprise

1:37.5

when the way Spain played and the reaction after was by certain players, Roderick B&W.

1:41.7

You were friendly Roderick, tell us what you said. It basically said that Scotland

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