World Cup 2022: Episode 6 - England Held By USA & Wales Suffer Sickening Defeat
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Tom Clarke, Alyson Rudd, Gregor Robertson and Molly Hudson are all in London to review the day's World Cup action.
Tom Roddy joins us live from Qatar to explain what it was like being in the stadium as England were held to a goalless draw against the USA, and discusses what questions he'll pose to Gareth Southgate. (00:16)
Where did it go wrong for England? How could a team that brushed aside Iran look so lacklustre and lethargic just days later? How did they assess Gareth Southgate's in-game management and substitutions? (01:28)
Wales' hopes of reaching the Round of 16 are all but over following a 2-0 defeat against Iran - Hugh Woozencroft joins us live from Qatar and believes Rob Page's management was 'inept' while he also calls for both Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey to be dropped for Tuesday's game with England (28:40)
How will Group A end? They discuss a tournament to remember for Ecaudor's Enner Valencia and also ask why the Netherlands are so inconsistent in their opening 2 group games. (47:45)
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| 0:59.2 | Hello and welcome to the Game World Cup podcast from the Times England have |
| 1:02.9 | drawn Neil Neal with the USA on Friday night joining me now from Qatar is Tom |
| 1:07.8 | Roddy. Tom what do we make of that then? The atmosphere at the beginning is |
| 1:12.0 | really good. It was actually better than the cleapest international stadium on |
| 1:17.4 | Monday for the Iran game because the fan didn't have the issues with the |
| 1:22.3 | ticketing getting into the stadium and they were able to build a bit of an |
| 1:27.4 | atmosphere. I mean it's awful where people attempt to try and force an atmosphere |
| 1:31.8 | onto people but they were actually creating their own and I think they were |
| 1:37.1 | boy and boy but in fact they were doing it from Monday's performance how well |
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