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Tifo Football Podcast

World Cup 2018 - Day 11: Three Lions & Fourteen Goals

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

Premier League, Sports, Champions League, Soccer,, Football Transfers

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Tifo team gather to discuss England cruising to victory over Panama, a thrilling draw between Japan & Senegal, and Colombia's besting of Poland.


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0:00.0

Okay, well that's the end of the England-Panama game. I said 5-0 yesterday. I was right at half-time,

0:06.8

just wrong, at the end of the game. But a lovely performance from England against a Panama side

0:13.0

who, it seemed, by the reaction of the crowd, were very pleased to get their first ever World Cup goal.

0:19.1

So that was a nice moment also. First, Alex, I want to ask

0:23.0

you about Gareth Southgate. We've just, we waited to record this until after we watched his

0:27.8

interview and some of the interviews of the players as well. And I want to ask you about Gareth

0:32.5

Southgate and his sort of ability as a manager, because as it stands, he looks to be doing a very impressive job.

0:38.5

However, his role, certainly from the English media, is going to be under inspection, under the

0:42.8

microscope, much more so than any other, and certainly in a more constrained time period

0:47.8

than across the Premier League season. So it's quite difficult, in a way, I suppose, to appraise

0:51.9

how he's doing. He seemed very calm in that interview there.

0:55.1

He, you know, sort of half-jokingly suggested that he wasn't very happy at the beginning

0:59.9

or at the end of the game, but happy with what happened in the middle.

1:02.9

How do you appraise his job so far?

1:06.4

And is there anything in particular that you like that you've seen from him?

1:10.2

I like everything that I've seen from him, really.

1:14.6

So I think there are various aspects to look at when you're going into a World Cup.

1:18.5

The first thing is the squad selection.

1:21.5

I think England have got depth across all the positions in that squad.

1:27.4

There's not really any yeah we were talking before

1:30.8

about um who in the belgium squad can play left wing back apart from karasco who in the germany

1:37.0

squad can play right back other than yoshua kimick england don't have those issues so that's a big

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