I'm Gabby's Jules.

This is the Gab and Jewel show presented by Gusto.

Jules.

We've been going, we've been trying to prepare as we can for the largest walk-up in history.

We've been going through the various groups.

We're halfway there. Halfway that? Let's crack on. Let's crack on. We've got group G getting into it. Pure Basic. We have Belgium. Please, I know somebody again. Well, we are, oh, with a golden generation. There's not much left of them. There are a couple survivors. A couple stragglers, Axel Wittzel, Romelo Lucacou,

Kevin DeBriana, Thibault Courtois, the eternal Thibault Courtois. I have them as favorites,

clear favorites, in a group that includes Egypt, Iran, and New Zealand. Um, toss up. Yeah,

not the most sexiest of group, let's be honest here.

I mean, even Belgium and the Rudy Garcia, who we're still not really sure what to expect,

despite all the talent that they have.

And some of their players have had really good season like Eury Telemans, for example, and Aston Villa.

But you still, I'm not sure as well for Rudy Garcia, a bit like Carl Encelotti

that we mentioned in the last show that we did when we previewed the, you know, the first

six groups of this World Cup, Rudy Garcia has never coached an international level in a tournament

like this. And it's very different to club level, so let's see how we adapt. But you're right,

they are absolutely hugely favorite to top the group. And then you know what? Behind that, I fancy Iran more than Egypt. Really, because I think this Iran side with everything that is going on back home, we want to make their country proud and their people proud, and I think they already have a lot of talent. Obviously, maybe more than an Egypt team that didn't do well have gone. And despite most Sala being there for his last World Cup, I'm not sure in great form. Yeah, I think that's the thing with when we compare Iran and Egypt. I mean, look, Iran, there's obviously there is a political dimension to all this, everything that's going on, it's an elephant in a room. We don't know it's going to affect the players, but what we do know is they've

consistently been great in Asian qualifying until really over the last 10, 20 years, maybe you could

argue Japan and Korea have matched them. But they've still been right up at the very top.

In Mediterranean, they have a veteran center forward.

But a lot of the guys who play domestically in Iran,

that is a pretty competitive league.

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