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Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

World Cup Day 20 recap: Lionel Messi, Julián Álvarez propel Argentina to World Cup Finals! | SOTU

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

FOX Sports

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Day 20 of the 2022 FIFA World Cup brought the intensity, as Alexi Lalas and David Mosse have you covered with all the content that you need presented by State Farm! Lalas and Mosse react to Argentina's victory over Croatia in the 2022 FIFA World Cup Quarterfinals and break down the impressive performance from Lionel Messi and Julián Álvarez. Lalas and Mosse also analyze the other upcoming quarterfinals match between Morocco and France and Gregg Berhatler's rift with Gio Reyna. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:12.4

Listen, we got ourselves another day of soccer.

0:16.0

My good friend David Mossy is joining us.

0:18.0

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

0:27.6

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

0:33.6

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

0:38.6

And also a affirmation, if you needed one,

0:42.3

about the legendary status historic status potential

0:46.1

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

0:54.0

You know what was crazy about this game

0:56.0

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

0:59.0

I marvel that their ability to hold on to the ball

1:02.0

to control the game not let Argentina get anything

1:05.9

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

1:12.0

play Alvarez taken down by

1:13.5

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

1:16.7

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

1:21.0

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

1:23.7

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

1:28.1

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

1:34.7

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

1:39.8

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

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