Japan go through, Germany go home, Croatia crack on
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It’s Jimbo, Lynsey Hooper and Duncan Alexander on the pod after Day 12 of the World Cup.
Japan and Morocco make surprise progressions and Belgium and Germany make surprise exits.
The reigning runners up Croatia progress despite some uninspiring performances so far. Juraj Vrdoliak gives us the perspective from Croatia.
Germany are one of two big teams to go out today and Rafa Honigstein gives us his reaction from the bowels of the Al Bayt Stadium.
We look back to look ahead as Ghana and Uruguay prepare to face off for the first time since that infamous 2010 quarter final in South Africa.
The Athletic’s Carl Anka reminds us why it grates Ghanaians so much still.
Gilmar Deledon joins us from Uruguay to tell us they don’t think about Ghana at all…
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| 0:52.1 | Catan Thrust. Thursday's action at the World Cup looked unmissable, but hold my beer, |
| 0:55.8 | says Romolulu-Lukaku, with a spell-binding array of spurned chances as Belgium go out, followed by Costa Rica and Germany too. We picked through a wild night |
| 1:02.0 | of Group E play, which saw everybody have a try on top, salute Croatia, Japan and Spain, sort of, |
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| 1:16.2 | day 12 can we really describe this? Day is just 12? |
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| 1:32.3 | Day incredible at the World Cup. |
| 1:33.2 | XII. |
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