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Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

World Cup Day 8 Recap: Germany SAVE WC hopes vs. Spain & Morocco STUN Belgium | State of the Union

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

FOX Sports

Soccer, News, Sports News, Sports

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Day 8 of the 2022 FIFA World Cup brought the upsets as Alexi Lalas brings you all the analysis that you need! Lalas breaks down Germany's massive draw with Spain and Niclas Füllkrug's impressive goal in the second half. Lalas highlights Morocco's stunning victory over Belgium and Croatia's dominant performance over Alphonso Davies, Canada. To wrap up the show, Lalas highlights Costa Rica's shocking victory over Japan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello Sunshine I'm Alexi Lallis and welcome to the State of the Union

0:09.0

podcast presented by State Farm. I come to you yet again live here from Doha guitar on banks of the Bay of Doha here and our Fox Sports

0:21.0

Amazing set and we got another game or another day of games and so we will

0:25.8

go through it before I do that I always give you my update on my friend David

0:30.7

Mossy he assures me that he will be available and joining us tomorrow.

0:35.2

He's not here tonight. I will tell you a quick story at the end of this about David Mossy and

0:42.0

his growing legions of fans and international fans. It's pretty it's pretty amazing right now. Well, it's not pretty amazing. I totally understand it. We all love David, but he will be with us tomorrow. Okay, let's get right into it because really some

0:54.4

interesting games and some interesting results. Costa Rica Japan, Costa Rica,

1:00.1

and totally redeem yourself.

1:03.0

All right?

1:04.0

Narrative after the first game, they get completely annihilated

1:08.0

7-0 by Spain, Costa Rica,

1:11.0

I called it a shameful performance, I called it an embarrassment not just to Costa Rica

1:18.3

and Costa Rica soccer, but ultimately to Kakaaf.

1:22.8

But we talked all day about this pendulum,

1:26.0

this World Cup pendulum that swings

1:29.7

and changes perspective and changes the narrative.

1:34.5

And just like that, little old Costa Rica

1:37.6

who we had all written off, they come back

1:40.4

against another other than Japan who had just beaten Germany and they get themselves a

1:44.5

one-nothing victory.

1:47.1

And they do it in a very Costa Rican way.

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