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Gab & Juls Show: Why Italy must replace Gattuso now

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ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss Italy’s 4-1 defeat against Norway and discuss how difficult it will be for them to qualify for the World Cup via the playoffs. The guys also praise Troy Parrott’s heroic five goals in two games to keep Ireland’s chances of qualification alive, MLS’ decision to change their sporting calendar and ask if Eric Cantona was out of line for his criticisms of Jim Ratcliffe’s stewardship of Manchester United.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Gabby's

0:06.5

Jewel's blue skies over West London,

0:09.6

less so over Italy,

0:11.3

humiliated at home by Norway.

0:13.7

And we're going to get to...

0:14.8

I will ask, actually.

0:16.2

Are Norway actually really, really good?

0:18.1

Better than people think.

0:19.7

Bradley, I know the answer.

0:20.7

It's very terrible. But there's so much more going on. Heartbreak, not a good weekend for me, Jules. Nigeria, losing on penalties. Yes, yes. And their coach possibly saying something very stupid about it afterwards. Germany, given a scare. All to play for against Slovakia now. I wonder, hey hello deutche do you want to join us in the

0:38.6

playoffs how about that uh england staying perfect um although maybe not the that greatest of performance

0:45.2

there's a dead rubber beat team uh so there's a ton going on but let's start at the san cito

0:51.3

the most iconic place in football to some people.

0:54.5

Of course.

0:55.9

All right.

0:57.1

Going into it, all Italy had to do was win by nine goals.

1:00.3

Yeah.

1:00.8

Scored in the first 10 minutes and then thinking about it.

1:02.8

We're on track.

1:04.4

We're up pace to score the nine goals that we need against Norway.

1:09.0

And then they create, I think, one realistic chance for the rest of the first half.

1:13.9

And then in the second half, Norway start playing and the bottom pulls out.

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