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Tifo Football Podcast

World Cup 2018 - Day 6: Russia Cruise On & Unpredictability in Group H

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

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

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Russians show Group A how it's done, and Group H proves its unpredictability with results for Japan and Senegal. The Tifo team also reflect on England's performance and the reaction from back home.


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0:00.0

Okay, it's day six. We've just watched the Columbia Japan game. I myself was late and missed the first 15 minutes, which, as I understand, was most of the important action for the game, Carlos Sanchez Red Card. I hear it was a blatant handball. Penalty Shinjigawa scored that. And there was a Cantero free kick, which was lovely,

0:22.4

and another Japan goal towards the end.

0:25.8

We remarked that it's another, in a long, well, growing list of surprising results for this

0:32.6

World Cup, Japan, I think most people expected would be the weaker link in this group, which is fairly evenly balanced.

0:41.1

Senegal and Poland to come, Colombia and Poland perhaps are the two front runners, but it's very difficult to predict in Group H.

0:49.8

Although a 2-1 victory to Japan, largely because of Colombia going down to 10 men early on,

0:55.6

is a surprise result, isn't it, Alex?

0:59.2

Yeah, I think clearly that red card, as early as it was, had a massive impact,

1:05.7

not simply because they were playing against 10 men,

1:08.4

but also because it forced Colombia initially to sit back into a sort of a 4-4-1 and then take a quadrado off, bring on Wilma Barrios to tighten up that midfield area.

1:25.6

And Colombia brought Hamas Rodriguez off the bench

1:29.2

sort of fairly late into the second half,

1:32.1

which I don't think they would have expected to have to do

1:35.7

or probably wanted to have to do at that point.

1:39.0

It was completely the correct decision on the penalty

1:43.5

and the red card.

1:45.6

Although, I was a bit confused.

1:47.6

I saw somebody mention something about double jeopardy

1:49.6

and not getting, not having a sending off when you award a penalty as well.

1:53.6

There's a new Premier League rule, which began, I think, at the beginning of last season.

1:58.8

Yeah.

1:59.2

Which, yeah, I think it's along the lines of if there is, although I think at the beginning of last season which yeah I think it's along the lines of if there is

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