The Athletic.

It's day nine of the Qatar World Cup, the morning after a dramatic quartet of games,

where the main events saw Spain and Germany draw 1-1 and that keeps the German hopes alive.

We'll also wrap up the rest of the games.

We'll be hearing from England forward Marcus Rashford should he get the nod ahead of Harry Kane against Wales.

I'm Adam Levental and this is the Athletic Football Podcast. Terniala, Falkirk. Fulcrag. Now Germany's substitute has done it.

One sense of forward at one end.

And Fulcrag at the other. I'm joined once again pullside by the athletics Jack Pitt Brook and Ollie Kay both of whom who were at games

yesterday which delivered shocks Jack you saw Costa Rica grab a vital win against the odds

against Japan.

It sort of kick-started a day where it looked as if there was going to be a cascade of

shocks, didn't it?

Yeah, well, my game was really awful at the start,

but got better and better as it went on,

which hopefully will be a kind of, the World Cup itself will follow the same pattern.

And then Ollie, you were at Belgium against Morocco, and I suppose if anyone had watched Belgium against I would go win. Yeah and if people had seen Morocco as well

Morocco looked lively in that first game and you know got a decent point

against Croatia but you know they they performed very well against Belgium who just looked completely off the pace and yeah I think it was a

deserved victory for Morocco and it puts Belgium under a lot of pressure going to that final game.

Indeed it does. We'll have much more on those two games a little bit later on. I was at

Croatia against Canada which for a long while looked as though it was going to be another

surprise on the cards but the message really is

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