Ronaldo steals the show in Sochi on a day of a late drama
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Natalie Sawyer reviews a breathless Matchday 2 at the World Cup. Three games all decided by last minute goals, as the panel react to the greatest World Cup performance of Cristiano Ronaldo’s career, in Portugal’s 3-3 draw with Spain.
James Gheerbrant has his eye on Uruguay, while Matt Dickinson watches Iran make history but curses the return of the vuvuzela.
And Alyson Rudd is cold in Kazan as she looks forward to her first glimpse of the French ahead of their clash with Australia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game World Cup daily from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer and thank you for joining us. |
| 0:15.2 | Over the next month we'll be bringing you podcasts every match day of the World Cup after 10 o'clock UK time every night. |
| 0:22.2 | In the studio with me he's 1 8th Belgium. It's |
| 0:25.2 | James Gerebrandt. James hello. In St. Petersburg the Times chief |
| 0:30.1 | sport writer Matt Dickinson who had to furiously rewrite his match report thanks to a round |
| 0:34.3 | stoppage time winner against Morocco. Matt good to speak to you. How are you? |
| 0:38.8 | I'm very well. Yes, what a night. What a night indeed. We'll get to that in just a moment. Also, Uruguay also left it late to overturn Egypt as we'll discuss in this podcast. |
| 0:48.0 | Plus we'll be crossing over to Kazan to speak to Allison Rut ahead of her first glimpse of the French tomorrow. |
| 0:53.7 | But first, let's start in Sochi with the game of the tournament so far. |
| 0:58.6 | Six goals shared between Portugal and Spain in a game that seemed to have everything and probably fair to say it was the man |
| 1:04.8 | that likes to make the headlines Christina Ronaldo that stole the show Matt? |
| 1:10.0 | Well yes I mean you were just watching that free kick thinking, you know, is he's probably going to, you know, or can he get it over over that walk, you know, and then he just, I just saw the concentration on his face as just extraordinary, the technique was extraordinary, |
| 1:25.2 | the width, the bend, I mean it was just perfection and under that kind of pressure to deliver, that's |
| 1:31.6 | what great sportsmen do, isn't that, you know, that's that's what great sportsmen do and that's the you know at that absolute |
| 1:35.2 | you know crucible moment they deliver something very very special time after time and |
| 1:42.0 | Yeah, I mean just superlative and it's just well it's been a |
| 1:45.8 | lively start to the World Cup and that's just already given us a truly great game |
| 1:50.3 | 24 hours in. Indeed James James, how did you rate Rinaldo's performance? |
| 1:55.5 | Well, I mean, it's funny, I think when you look at Rinaldo, at club level, his ability |
| 2:01.2 | to produce the best on the biggest stage is absolutely uncanny and |
| 2:06.7 | incomparable. I mean if you look at the stats for the goals that he scores in the |
| 2:11.2 | Champions League knockout phase or even from the quarterfinals |
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