Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine, and I'm delighted to be joined today by Seb Stafford Bloor. Hi, Seb. Hello, Joe Devine.

JJ Bull the Bullet, hi. Hello. Yes, we're all excited today because day four included four games of varying quality, but mostly high. And we're going to talk about them today. Of course, the first one was Belgium, Canada. Yeah, we're going to talk about that. That's very exciting. We're also going to hear from our friend, your friend and mine, Adam Leventol, who's out there in Doha. We'll get to Adam shortly. There'll be some Germany, Japan. Wow, What a game, what a result that was. As everyone in the chat tells me that there's no sound on the audio because of a joke that I made before the podcast began. Now are you worried that actually it's not a joke? No. I'm just like my faith in internet trolling is restored. I did think it was actually. There was no audio, but I means I've truly been trolled. You've been trolled. In the truest've been trolled. Even though we already did the, anyway, never mind. Like a good old point. Spain scored seven goals, and we'll talk about that. Probably for around seven minutes, no relation. And of course, Morocco, Croatia. It was a nil-nil, that was, but it was quite a fun game. So we'll talk about that a little bit later on. And if you like it a little bit later on, then you should get The Athletic. Theathletic.com forward slash Tifo. Theathletic.com forward slash Tifo where at the moment you can get, I think, one pound a month for six months, which is a fantastic deal for a little bit later on, not later on. Friday deal as well. Is it? Yes, it is. I think so. There we go. One of the best,

one of the greatest. So, very exciting. You checking that you can hear,

the trolls have got to producer Jamie. He's held his laptop speaker up to his ear to double

check that we can be heard.

He's so rude people in the comments.

Anyway, of course, if you're confused and you're listening to this as an audio on your mobile device or laptop computer,

then you might be wondering, what are they talking about?

Well, of course, we're on YouTube.

We're live streaming this in the immediate aftermath of the final game of day four.

And if you're listening today and you think, well, I want to see also, A, that's wrong.

But B, you can by visiting us on the TIFO IRL, all game days after, from about 9pm GMT,

or basically when the final game ends, JJ. Yes, that's correct. It's very good to see our lovely tactics boards. We can do all sorts of fun things with them. I can write messages. You can write messages. Have you written one? Not yet. Okay, maybe later. Yes. The eagle-eyed amongst you will spot those messages. But again, that's theathletic.com forward slash Tifo. That was maybe the best advert we've

ever done. That's pretty good. That's very slick. Okay. For the time being then, I will leave you in the

warm hands and the cool embrace of a little bit later, Mr. Adam Leventhal. Let's begin the podcast with Belgium 1.0 Canada.

This was actually quite an exciting game, wasn't it?

It was very end-to-end.

I enjoyed it.

I think it was probably a good game for maybe an hour, and then it got a little bit ragged.

And I think we certainly saw the best

of Canada in the first 45 minutes we saw them in a very dynamic creating a lot of chances

I think the last time I checked they had about 24 shots in the game which is remarkable

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