World Cup 2022: Episode 15 - England Set Up A Quarter Final Against France
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The Times
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🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft and Tom Roddy are in Qatar - with Gregor Robertson, Tom Clarke and Alyson Rudd in London.
England are through to the quarter finals of the World Cup with a 3-0 win over Senegal - but as some fans were suggesting, was it a boring performance? (00:00)
Tom Roddy was at the Al Bayt Stadium and gives us his thoughts before we look ahead to Saturday’s quarter final against France (17:28)
The French proved too much for Poland, beating them 3-1 and showing everyone they have every intention of defending their crown. How will England handle Kylian Mbappé? (29:21)
Hugh ends with a theory that scoring the first goal is more important than ever if you’re the underdog - but does anyone agree with him? (44:35)
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| 1:00.9 | a week's Senegal to reach the last eight at the World Cup. We'll talk about a brilliant |
| 1:04.8 | performance from Bellingham, goals for Kane as well and how we can possibly stop |
| 1:10.5 | Kylian and Bappe after he inspired France to a place in the last eight. Thanks to victory over |
| 1:16.4 | Poland. We'll talk about Robert Lewandowski's last kick at the World Cup and whether the first goal |
| 1:21.6 | really matters in a game. This is the game. |
| 1:31.2 | Hello and welcome back to the game podcast. I am Hugh. Wasn't Croft alongside |
| 1:34.8 | Alison Rudton Clark and Gregor Robinson Full House to discuss England progressing to the |
| 1:40.0 | quarterfinals at the World Cup. With a pretty comfortable three-nil win over Senegal, |
| 1:45.5 | dare I say it, at least on the score line. It was job done. We saw some pretty good performances |
| 1:50.4 | out there from the likes of Hugh Bellingham, Phil Ford and Harry Kane scoring from Open Play as well |
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