World Cup 2022- Episode 7- More Messi Magic & France Look the Business
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Martin Hardy joins us live from Qatar after attending Argentina vs Mexico to explain what it was like seeing Messi produce more World Cup Magic (02:35)
What are Argentina lacking and why aren't they reaching the high expectations people had for them so far? (04:19)
Poland beat Saudi Arabia 2-0 as Robert Lewandowski breaks his World Cup goal duck with Martin Handy in attendance for the game (10.20)
France beat Denmark 2-1 and Kylian Mbappe continues to impress in the tournament. Jonathan Northcroft joins us live from Qatar and believes he has the wow factor when watching Mbappe live (16.10)
How will Group D end? They discuss whether Australia can make it out of the group and Jonathan gives his thoughts on England and Wales' showings so far (21.15)
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| 0:54.4 | Hello and welcome back to the game podcast from the Times. I'm Gregor Robertson and it's been |
| 1:00.1 | another hugely enjoyable day at the World Cup in Qatar. Joining me to review all our Johnny |
| 1:04.2 | Northgoft and Martin Hardy. Johnny, as tempted as I was to start with a tart in Socarous, |
| 1:08.8 | whose gutsy win against Tunisia was inspired by the man mountain that is Harry Sutter. |
| 1:13.5 | I think we're going to have to pan out for a minute and recognise that today, three of the best |
| 1:17.2 | players in the world all delivered for the countries when it mattered. Robert Lewandowski scored his |
| 1:21.9 | first ever goal at World Cup, age 34, then Poland's 2-0 win against Saudi Arabia, |
| 1:26.5 | killing in Bappy, scored twice in France's 2-1 against Denmark, and Lionel Messi, |
| 1:31.0 | who looked like he had the weight of the world on his shoulders for the first hour against Mexico |
| 1:34.9 | tonight, did what he has always done and provided a moment of inspiration when it really mattered. |
| 1:39.9 | Johnny, this was a good day for the World Cup, right? It's fantastic. World cups are about these |
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