World Cup 2018 - Day 2: Ronaldo, Spain's Fluid Front Four & France
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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It's day two, and what a lovely day it was. The Tifo team are gathered to discuss Ronaldo, Spain, Iran's group-topping victory, and David Silva. Tomorrow's fixtures are also discussed ahead of time; can France make an impact at this tournament?
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| 0:29.9 | Okay, it's 5 o'clock. We're halfway through the Morocco-Iran game. It's a tasty affair. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm enjoying it. Morocco looking bright. Earlier on today, |
| 0:39.2 | Uruguay, a nice 1-0 defeat against Egypt with no Mo Salah and a goal from Jimenez. I missed that |
| 0:46.5 | game, Alex, but you watched it. What did you make of it? What are you thinking of Uruguay early on? |
| 0:50.7 | We expected a win and we expected it to be closely tied. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, I was a bit disappointed with Uruguay. I think they didn't hold onto the |
| 1:02.0 | ball particularly well. Suarez missed probably the one good chance that he had, but they found a goalkeeper in in good forms a couple of good saves off kivani |
| 1:14.6 | so i mean it probably it wouldn't have been a surprise if it had been a little more comfortable |
| 1:21.4 | for them but there there seemed to be um Diego goden was was carrying the ball up the pitch quite a lot |
| 1:28.6 | and I think that was probably symptomatic of his frustration |
| 1:32.6 | that there wasn't a lot of creativity coming from further ahead |
| 1:37.8 | Benton Kuh was playing in central midfield |
| 1:40.8 | rather than out on the right which is where he's played in quite a few friendlies |
| 1:45.0 | and he was dropping very deep to collect the ball but then there didn't seem to be a huge |
| 1:52.8 | amount of movement either side. Kekaris who's playing left back as a naturally right-footed |
| 1:58.9 | player which I think prevents him getting forwards on the overlap. |
| 2:03.8 | Ordinarily, the Uruguay and wide midfielders kind of pull in |
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