World Cup Day 12 - December 1, 2022

Always Cheating: A Fantasy Premier League Podcast

Always Cheating Media LLC

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🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

For a brief and magical moment during Day 12 of the FIFA World Cup, both Japan and Costa Rica were heading out of Group E at the expense of European juggernauts Spain and Germany. Japan and Spain ultimately move on, while Group F saw the tournament's second African nation qualify for the knockout stage. Croatia is also through after a shocking performance by Belgium, who will know their team xG does not tell the full story. After recapping Thursday, Josh and Brandon look ahead to tomorrow's final day of group play as Brazil and Portugal set out to clinch their pole position and Serbia and Switzerland have a score to settle. Hail Cheaters!

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0:00.0	I'm Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hello and welcome to the World Cup Minutes.
0:31.4	Josh Landon live on location.
0:34.0	I'm not in guitar, Brandon, but I'm at a hotel in an undisclosed town.
0:39.3	I will acknowledge that that undisclosed town has good pretzels, and I will say no more.
0:44.7	It's near Dutch country.
0:45.6	Sure, that'll narrow it down for a lot of our listeners, for sure.
0:48.9	Not in Lange's right.
0:50.7	Yeah, I mean, okay, you're in an undisclosed location.
0:54.9	It has been yet another insane day at the World Cup.
0:59.6	12 World Cup minutes, 12 insane days.
1:03.5	I guess there were probably one or two days in there.
1:05.3	They were not as insane.
1:07.3	But my favorite moment of the tournament, yeah, my favorite moment of the tournament happened today where there was that brief five-minute-ish window where Costa Rica were on their way to the knockout rounds.
1:20.3	Spain and Germany were going out.
1:22.8	It was a nice, thrilling contrast to what I predicted yesterday would be the battle of who could
1:29.1	care less between Belgium and Croatia.
1:33.2	That, you know, forget, forget predicting score lines, Josh.
1:37.7	We should just predict mental states of being, because I think we nailed that one.
1:43.3	I mean, I think that they were, there was some, there was a lot of fight in that game. Lecacu, uh, it's insane. I mean, I don't know what his individual XG was in that match, but it was the chances that he was missing. I mean, I know one was like the ball's probably out of bounds and Kevin to write up, he got it to him. But that one early, oh, and then another one, like Belgium should be through, honestly. They should be through. And Lukaku just could not. I don't want to pin it on one person because it's a whole, that whole team was just, like he said, kind of dead and a rival. I think Croatia had a lot of fight in them. And there was a moment in that second half earlier on where I was like, oh, yeah, there's just no way Belgium was going to win this game.
2:01.4	Like, even if Belknit. of dead and arrival. I think Croatia had a lot of fight in them. There was a moment in that second half earlier, I was like, oh, yeah, there's just no way
2:19.2	Belgium was going to win this game.
2:21.0	Like, even if Belgium had scored, Croatia would have just been like, okay, fine, now we'll score too. Like, they would have just come back and equalize. Like, they were not going to lose that match. Yeah, for the stats heads out there, let's see, at least the foot mob app has the XG for Belgium at 3.07.
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