Messi's 1000th, Southgate's selection headache & hope for USA in 2026
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 4 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Host Adam Leventhal is joined by The Athletic's England writers Oli Kay and Jack Pitt-Brooke to discuss England manager Gareth Southgate's starting XI to face Senegal...
US soccer correspondent Sam Stejskal reflects on the many positives that USMNT can take from this World Cup and James Horncastle purrs over yet another milestone and masterclass from Leo Messi.
Plus, an insight into the mindset of England's opponents from Senegalese journalist Mahmoud Gueye.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:05.9 | So the last 16 is underway with the USA and Australia heading home. |
| 0:11.3 | Messi is through to the last date with Killian Mbapé, also eyeing a place in the quarterfinals. |
| 0:16.8 | England's knockout campaign gets underway against African champions Senegal at the Albaite Stadium. |
| 0:22.9 | It's day 15 in Qatar. I'm Adam Leventhal and this is the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:31.2 | To Mixie! |
| 0:41.4 | It's another goal for the Millennium Man. |
| 0:50.4 | So we loved it so much. |
| 0:58.0 | Yesterday we are back at the Sukwakif to have this is our location for today's podcast episode and as it was yesterday the atmosphere is just gradually building around us we've had |
| 1:04.4 | rather sort of handsome impressive men on horses walking past clip-clop, clip-clop, they went. |
| 1:15.8 | And I've also had a cat in my bag, which has been interesting as we've set up for this |
| 1:20.8 | podcast. |
| 1:22.2 | Olly Kay and Jack Pitt Brook are alongside me. |
| 1:25.9 | It's a nice sort of start to the day. There's some, just seeing |
| 1:29.2 | some England fans, just sort of walking past as we speak, just getting ready for a big day ahead. |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah, it's the first time I've been in the Sook at this time of day. It's normally kind of quite |
| 1:39.0 | wild and lively in the afternoons and evenings what I've been before. |
| 1:49.8 | The morning it's, yeah, it feels quite nice and chilled out and the sort of atmosphere gently, gently gradually building. But it's a nice, it's a nice setup, although I keep having |
| 1:56.6 | to remind myself that it's a reproduction soup. It was built in 2006 i think and it was um so this |
| 2:03.5 | this is this is sort of portrayed as the old part of town but it but it's not well i suppose |
| 2:07.8 | it is relative to most of the rest of it yeah it is it is foe but it is still quite um quite a site |
| 2:14.3 | here um i suppose it's interesting as well on the day of an England game. |
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