World Cup Favorites Advance (and Cape Verde!!)

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Sports, Soccer

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The FC crew break down the final day action of Group I, with France, Norway, and Senegal all advancing to the knockout stages. Plus, Spain beats Uruguay 1-0 and a goalless draw against Saudi Arabia keeps Cape Verde's World Cup dreams alive. Plus, a look ahead to the final day of group stage action tomorrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.2	Welcome into the next edition of ESPNFC. I'm Dan Thomas joined by Craig Burley. Don Hutchinson is here,
0:40.8	Ali Moreno as well. Later on in the show we'll be discussing whether or not Pochitino was right to completely change his side and that defeat against Turkey.
0:48.4	Plus lots of love for France and Dembele. Not so much love for Spain. They would advance. They would beat Uruguay
0:55.3	by one goal to nil in the game that is just finished. But boy, this was hard work. After
1:00.6	seeing France, one of the favorites put on such a great show earlier in the day. Now this
1:04.7	was anything but from Spain. Uruguay though put up a fight quite literally. However, a 1-0
1:10.0	defeat means that they go home early.
1:11.6	They are eliminated.
1:13.6	Saudi Arabia go home with them from the group.
1:15.6	Cape Verde are the second place side who advanced.
1:18.6	We'll talk about them and their matchup with Argentina in a moment.
1:22.6	But overall, Ali, you look at this Spain side and we expected quite a lot from them, didn't we?
1:28.3	Did we expect too much? Do we just take the win today?
1:31.3	We expected more than today.
1:34.3	We expected more than what we saw against Cape Verde.
1:37.3	And then the match against Saudi Arabia in which they win for nothing, you kind of go, well, maybe.
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