Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast presented by State Farm.

Listen, we got ourselves another day of soccer.

My good friend David Mossy is joining us.

We come to you straight off of the set after a resounding exclamation point of a win from Argentina, 3-0 over

Croatia. It was not in doubt, I don't think, at any time.

And ultimately, like we said, this was a comprehensive type of win.

And also a affirmation, if you needed one,

about the legendary status historic status potential

goat status of one Leonel messy general thoughts before we dive in a little bit.

You know what was crazy about this game

is I actually thought Croatia had a very good first 20-25 minutes.

I marvel that their ability to hold on to the ball

to control the game not let Argentina get anything

going and then the first time really that Argentina broke down the field it was the penalty

play Alvarez taken down by

Livakovich which I thought was a stone cold penalty I can't believe people are

actually debating that messy converts what by the way what a brilliant penalty by

messy to get it past Livakovic who we know is very good at

and then from that point on it just snowballed and Alvarez shortly thereafter

scored a bit of a fortuitous goal but nevertheless give him credit for sticking with it and then the

second half was just with showtime I mean it's yeah I mean it was at that point I

think the game was over and I think Croatia recognized that they had done their work in

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