World Cup state of play – can anyone beat France but France?
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo, Raphael Hongstein, Julien Laurens and Alvaro Romeo assess the big hitters in Europe with the Nations League qualifiers over and the World Cup on the horizon.
England and Germany fight out a 3-3 thriller in a game that exposes both team’s flaws. Are we only just seeing Southgate’s shortcomings when the rest of the continent has been aware for a while?
France beat Austria and lose to Denmark, yet with the talent Didier Deschamps has at his disposal, could they become the first nation in 60 years to retain the World Cup?
Or will it be Argentina or Brazil who are looking strong by comparison to the likes of Spain, who have a settled midfield and goalkeeper but not much else.
And Michiel Jongsma joins us to discuss the only major European nation that are looking strong right now – Louis Van Gaal’s Netherlands.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Getting excited for World Cup (02.00)
• PART 1b: Moment of the weekend (05.00)
• PART 1c: England 3-3 Germany (09.30)
• PART 2: France – boom or bust in Qatar? (25.00)
• PART 3: Spanish struggles (34.30)
• PART 4a: Michiel Jongsma on the resurgent Netherlands (43.00)
• PART 4b: What about Brazil and Argentina? (50.30)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | Totally Football Show. |
| 0:11.0 | Call it the Shawshot Redemption. |
| 0:14.3 | As England end goals drought v Germany. |
| 0:16.7 | Now, with the World Cup looming, we check on the big European favourites. |
| 0:20.9 | Germany, Spain, France and Van Hal's Netherlands. |
| 0:23.8 | Who'll star, who'll stutter when we get to Qatar? |
| 0:26.2 | Who'll have the defensive consistency of butter? |
| 0:28.8 | Plus, why it's probably going to be Argentina and Brazil's year anyway, |
| 0:32.1 | in this totally football show. |
| 0:33.9 | Thank you. football show. |
| 0:44.4 | Tuesday, 27th of September. |
| 0:45.5 | Hey, listener. |
| 0:47.1 | I'm excited. |
| 0:47.8 | You're excited. |
| 0:49.6 | The World Cup's around the corner. |
| 0:56.2 | And right now, we've got Julian Lorenz, Alvarez, Alvarez, Ramay on Raphael Hon honnstein here with us good morning boys hello hello we also got mikhail yonsmer a little bit later on his views on van hails triumphant |
| 1:04.1 | netherlands they're about the only big euro side not struggling of course right now checks |
| 1:09.3 | notes spain lost at home to Switzerland, |
| 1:12.1 | Germany got beaten by Hungary, only drew with England, France got done by Denmark. |
| 1:17.0 | Hmm, wow, yeah, one of two issues. One of two issues we'll be talking about today then. |
| 1:24.1 | Of course, the big news month to all of this is that Italy have conquered their place in the final four. |
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