Romania and Slovakia shock while France win - but at what cost to Mbappé?
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
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🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo is joined by Duncan Alexander and Tom Williams to recap a busy day of action at Euro 2024.
France get the job done in a tight 1-0 victory over Austria - but it wasn't particularly pretty from Mbappé and co - who's tournament *could* be in jeopardy after breaking his nose...
A beleaguered Belgium saw TWO Romelu Lukaku goals disallowed as they were stunned in a 1-0 defeat by Slovakia.
Meanwhile, Romania returned to the Euros in style with a 3-0 thrashing of Ukraine - back on this stage for the first time since 2016 AND recording their biggest ever win in the competition. Romanian football expert Emanuel Roşu reflects on a seismic day in Munich.
Plus - we get an inside look at expectations for the Czech Republic facing Portugal and Georgia taking on Turkey as the first round of group games comes to a close on Tuesday. Journalists Karel Häring and Nika Kevkhishvili are on hand to help us preview those Group F clashes.
Produced by Lucy Oliva.
Theme music by JJ Bull.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Austria 0-1 France (05.05)
• PART 2a: Belgium 0-1 Slovakia (14.30)
• PART 2b: Romania 3-0 Ukraine with Emanuel Roşu (22.00)
• PART 3a: Turkey v Georgia preview with Nika Kevkhishvili (33.20)
• PART 3b: Portugal v Czech Republic preview with Karel Häring (44.25)
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| 1:00.0 | The Athletic. other T's and Cs apply gamblerware.org. Totally at the Euros. Day 4, the day of France, Austria, and Bappy's nose gets transposed in a massive blow to France. The day of Romania, their biggest ever Euro win, they've only had two, and the day of Belgium held up like a Gelsenkirchen fan transport by the remarkable Slovakia. We marvel at the Monday Madness and hail Tuesday's Fun in Prospect, |
| 1:14.4 | with Portugal against the Czech Republic and Georgia making their tournament debut against Turkey. |
| 1:19.8 | It's all in totally at the Euros. |
| 1:21.8 | Unglaubly, unbelievable that. |
| 1:25.3 | Boom. Monday the 17th June. It says here, hello to you. Listener, thank you so much for |
| 1:32.5 | joining us. Got lots on the way today as we react to Monday's action. We've got Emmanuel Roshu |
| 1:38.8 | talking about that incredible Romania performance. Carol Harding and Nika Kevkishvili are going to be previewing what Georgia |
| 1:45.9 | and the Czechs might get up to on Tuesday. And here in the studio, perhaps most exotically of all, |
| 1:51.5 | got Duncan Alexander. Hello. And Tom Williams. Hello. Hello to you both. Duncan, |
| 1:58.0 | what have you made to the tournament so far? Are you loving it? Yeah, it always takes a day or two to kind of grasp the vibe of a tournament, I think, you know. All right, what's the vibe? I don't think it's before it started, so that's almost certainly kind of. I think people make sweeping judgments, I like to wait and see. So four days in, what is the vibe? Well, early goals, plenty of goals, long range goals and some new stats like how much the ball is spinning. |
| 2:22.3 | We had a question about that. |
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