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Speaker 4: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to Wonder Goal, a with the

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Speaker 4: Soccerbating podcast from the Action I Work. My name is

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Speaker 4: Michael Lee buff joining me in just a moment. Are

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Speaker 4: my friends, colleagues, betting role models, Anthony Dbundo, BJ Cunningham.

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Speaker 4: go over sixteen matches remaining in the group stage. There

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Speaker 4: is a clear headliner for us here. If you're listening

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Speaker 4: to us from Sea to Shining Sea in the United States,

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Speaker 4: it is Iran and the United States. So let's start there.

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Speaker 4: This is Group B. Iran get through to the knockout

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Speaker 4: round with a draw or a win. United States. They

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Speaker 4: need to win. The odds are USA even money favorites

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Speaker 4: Iran three to one on the three way money lineup

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Speaker 4: at three sixty five. The draw is plus two forty,

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Speaker 4: so odds makers are telling us it's a fifty to

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Speaker 4: don't advance to the knockout stage. Is Anthony, You're gonna

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Speaker 4: wear the black hat for us on this show? Break

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Speaker 4: it Down?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I really don't want to bet against the United

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Speaker 2: definitely betting both teams to score. Yes, plus one ten.

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Speaker 2: And if you've watched the United States, they've worked great

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Speaker 2: It's the same kind of matchup where we've talked about it.

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Speaker 1: There are very few good teams in this tournament. There

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Speaker 4: And if the United States catches a break, like they

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Speaker 3: I do actually like the Americans here against Iran, Like

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Speaker 4: Wales plus seven fifty take you on England minus two

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Speaker 4: twenty five. The draw is plus three twenty. The Welsh

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Speaker 1: This is like this is they've already won this group.

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Speaker 4: This is typical Garrett Southgate, like he will manage the

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Speaker 4: So I think Whales are actually worth a little bit

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Speaker 3: So you can't have perfect performances throughout an entire tournament. Okay,

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Speaker 3: The group will say, you both, we're talking about Jude.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Yeah, I've done nothing here for England Wales. I'll

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Speaker 1: You do you see any way to.

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Speaker 4: Attack them at this number against this team, a Welsh

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Speaker 1: But like you said, Michael, they have to go for this.

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Speaker 3: And guess what Danny Ward's going to be in goal

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Speaker 3: like they have no depth at whatsoever outside of their

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't be shocked if England put three or four

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Speaker 3: pass because Gara Southgate is one of the best managers

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Speaker 4: All right, So those are the two.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how he says it with a straight face.

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Speaker 1: Those are the two to the Euro Final we lost

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Speaker 4: The ten A games are Group A. Ecuador, I tried

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Speaker 4: five point fifty. Man, those those guitar conspiracy theories, they

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Speaker 1: I'm on the over here.

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Speaker 4: In a similar vein to the Iran USA match, the

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Speaker 3: He's twenty two to one for Golden Boot by the way,

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Speaker 4: That just backing a chaotic match here is worth it.

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Speaker 4: And you know, if it's two and a half, if

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Speaker 4: So join me there. I'll let turn it over to

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Speaker 4: you too. BJ I'll see the floor to you because

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Speaker 4: this is kind of funny. Trader.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to put my hand up. I was

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Speaker 3: I thought coming into this tournament that they were lower value,

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Speaker 3: to one point seven to point zero seven. And listen,

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Speaker 3: They still don't have Saudi Amane. So I do like Ecuador.

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Speaker 3: I think that what from what I've seen from them

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Speaker 1: I guess I'm I'm conceding my my Senegal off here.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was one match, it was an impressive

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Speaker 4: Well against Guitar the first half, you know, and then

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Speaker 2: I mean, expected goals in that match were pretty much dead,

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Speaker 2: But I haven't really seen anything from Senegal where I'm

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Speaker 2: who's a big piece of the midfield. Nex to Cato

439
00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:16,840
Speaker 2: Cayceato also lucky he didn't get a yellow card because

440
00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,240
Speaker 2: he really should have at the end of the last match.

441
00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,399
Speaker 2: But he'll be in there. But I do think that

442
00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:24,160
Speaker 2: this Ecuador team has taken a ton of market money.

443
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Speaker 2: I mean, to look ahead line a week ago, Senegal

444
00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,120
Speaker 2: would have been, you know, the solid, slight favorite here

445
00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:30,439
Speaker 2: to go. You know, they were the favorite to go

446
00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:33,639
Speaker 2: through second. I think the markets moved too far. I

447
00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:35,800
Speaker 2: like Senegal. Now I do have a Senegal too advanced

448
00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,480
Speaker 2: ticket with the Dutch, so I'm probably not going to

449
00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,560
Speaker 2: actually put more money on it. But I think that

450
00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,600
Speaker 2: the market's gotten out of control here on Ecuador, so

451
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Speaker 2: I like Senegal.

452
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Speaker 4: Quickly, let's talk about Netherlands and Qatar. You both are

453
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Speaker 4: on Qatar getting two goals minus one ten. I mean whatever,

454
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Speaker 4: Anthony hego first.

455
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I got a poke the Dutch

456
00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:59,480
Speaker 2: with a stick or something, because outside of Cody Gakpo,

457
00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,440
Speaker 2: this team has been an absolutely train wreck. I mean,

458
00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:06,679
Speaker 2: Dobby Clausen, Stephen Berghouse, even Frankie Deyong, Like they're just

459
00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,480
Speaker 2: not getting any ball progression, midfield production out of those

460
00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:11,360
Speaker 2: guys like Deong. I thought, like I agree with bj

461
00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:12,840
Speaker 2: like I thought he was okay against Equador, but they

462
00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:14,680
Speaker 2: weren't getting the ball into the penalty area at all,

463
00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,439
Speaker 2: and like, yes, I don't. I think they need to

464
00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,320
Speaker 2: move Gackpo back and Memphis but another striker.

465
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:25,560
Speaker 1: Memphis is hurt, right so you know, and it's going

466
00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:26,200
Speaker 1: to have to come on.

467
00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 2: Of course, I have a gag Po ticket, which I

468
00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,280
Speaker 2: think we all do, so maybe they'll keep him up there.

469
00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:32,879
Speaker 2: He'll score one or two more and then they'll just

470
00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,280
Speaker 2: lose because they're not that good. But they've been I

471
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Speaker 2: think relative to my tournament expectations, they've been the worst

472
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Speaker 2: team so far because they were not very good against

473
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Speaker 2: Equador and they were not very good against Single and uh,

474
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure where it gets better because they don't

475
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,520
Speaker 2: have ball winning in the midfield and they're not playing

476
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,040
Speaker 2: you know, the midfielders they are playing are not doing

477
00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,800
Speaker 2: a ton, so there's major question marks. They're still a

478
00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:02,159
Speaker 2: very good defensive team, I think, but man got some

479
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,760
Speaker 2: question marks about them. Cotter will show some pride here.

480
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,120
Speaker 2: I like them plus two. I might take some both

481
00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:07,479
Speaker 2: teams to score as well. I do think they can

482
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Speaker 2: get on the board, but just major question.

483
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Speaker 4: Marks about the Dutch attack, right BJ you're joining him

484
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:14,680
Speaker 4: real quick.

485
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Speaker 3: We also have a scenario here where if if Ecuador

486
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Speaker 3: wins and Netherlands wins, both by the literally the exact

487
00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:23,800
Speaker 3: same score, I think it's going to come down to

488
00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,960
Speaker 3: yellow cards like it did with Senegal in the last.

489
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Speaker 2: Which which the Dutch would have.

490
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Speaker 1: Which the Dutch have one less yellow card than I.

491
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Speaker 2: They don't have it. They only have like one yellow

492
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Speaker 2: card the whole term.

493
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Speaker 1: Ecuador has three and Netherlands has two. I looked it

494
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Speaker 1: up just before the podcast. Yeah, no, I like guitar here.

495
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,560
Speaker 3: Like they've been unlucky, honestly defensively, like they've conceded five

496
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Speaker 3: goals off of one point nine expected Now it's just

497
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 3: it's honestly just bad goalkeeping, Like they've tried out two

498
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,640
Speaker 3: different keepers, it hasn't worked. They have over a minus

499
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 3: two post shot actually plus minus. But in terms of

500
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 3: keeping teams out of their penalty area, they've actually been

501
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,520
Speaker 3: doing a kind of a good job. Like Ecuador only

502
00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 3: had seventeen touches in the penalty year, Senegal only had fifteen.

503
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 3: Now Senegal ended up getting ten shots in the penalty area,

504
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,359
Speaker 3: but again they only created about point eight expected goals.

505
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 3: So like they did a great job at limiting those chances.

506
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,400
Speaker 1: And I mean, I'm already on the.

507
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,200
Speaker 3: Conspiracy theory long enough now might as well just one

508
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:16,720
Speaker 3: more time, you know, and the FIFA is going to

509
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 3: give them one last, hopefully one last big, big opportunity

510
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,680
Speaker 3: to give a good performance in front of their home fans.

511
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to be you know, they're

512
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 3: obviously a very you know, low block, direct type team.

513
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 3: I don't think they're just going to come out of

514
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 3: that and just you know, start playing open with the Dutch.

515
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 3: I think they'll they'll sit back, they'll play defensive, and

516
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,760
Speaker 3: they'll they'll try to take care of their opportunities and

517
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Speaker 3: then if they get something at the end.

518
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Speaker 1: They'll go for it.

519
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,080
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm on Katar plus two. I think, yeah,

520
00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,640
Speaker 3: this Netherland's offense has showed us nothing. And if they're

521
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 3: gonna have to start Gagpo and Berwine up top, I mean,

522
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 3: those guys aren't strikers.

523
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:49,160
Speaker 1: So it's just.

524
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 3: It's difficult to continue to create a bunch of chances

525
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,399
Speaker 3: when you have guys playing out of position.

526
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Speaker 4: Gakpo is the man is the man, but the man

527
00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 4: him and Kuters are the man. And you should have

528
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,439
Speaker 4: bet kudos for Golden Ball because you know who was

529
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 4: in on cudos in the summer, Frank Lampard. He said,

530
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 4: this guy, Oh of course he almost came to Everton.

531
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 4: He held out for a little bit oft ixos.

532
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 2: By the way, bj will be the biggest cody ghakpo

533
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 2: hater there is. Come January when you're gonna have to

534
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 2: keep these receipts because when he goes to United, be

535
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 2: just gonna start slandering him every week and say he's

536
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 2: actually not that good. So we'll be ready to go

537
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:24,199
Speaker 2: all right.

538
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 1: I mean, it's inflated stuff there to be said. Come on,

539
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,120
Speaker 1: it's not that good league. According according to Barrehlter, it's

540
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 1: not that good of the league.

541
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean bear Halter should have been arrested on

542
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 4: the field for telling them not to take that less

543
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 4: free kick and just kick it to the corner.

544
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Speaker 3: That was incredibly He literally told the media that Rena

545
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,920
Speaker 3: was hurt and asked Rayna to go along.

546
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a liar. He's a bad, bad.

547
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Speaker 1: Man, all right. Anyway.

548
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,400
Speaker 4: Group d D is for group D and it's also

549
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,919
Speaker 4: for dreadful, and it's also for den disaster. Australia plus

550
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 4: six hundred oh France, there's Denmark minus two hundred. The

551
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:57,160
Speaker 4: draw is plus three twenty Tunisia they're taking on France

552
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 4: plus six fifty, France minus two hundred. The draws plus

553
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 4: three hundred d's of ten A and kickoffs on Wednesday.

554
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 4: Australia versus Denmark is much more interesting. From a two

555
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:11,439
Speaker 4: tournament big picture standpoint, you would say a soccer ruse,

556
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,919
Speaker 4: God bless them. They can qualify with a win against Denmark,

557
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 4: and they also qualify with a draw and a Tunisia

558
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 4: raw or a loss. The Danes are in the same

559
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 4: situation as the Americans. They are a favorite. They're a

560
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 4: bigger favorite than the United States. They need to win.

561
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 4: They can't afford anything other than a victory, and they

562
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 4: are minus two hundred to get it. And you guys

563
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,400
Speaker 4: love your Danes, and you told everybody on this podcast

564
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 4: and all our live shows how much you love the Danes,

565
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,199
Speaker 4: and you convince me to love these Danes. And I

566
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,120
Speaker 4: got to tell you, there's nothing redeeming about this team anymore.

567
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 4: I hate them. I hate them a lot, and I

568
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 4: do trust them. I don't trust them at minus two

569
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 4: hundred I'm.

570
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 2: Still trying to figure out how Cornelius didn't score that

571
00:24:58,520 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 2: hatter against.

572
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,639
Speaker 4: Because he's on Denmark and Denmark doesn't score. He was

573
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 4: in the goal, yeah, and he couldn't score. I mean,

574
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 4: I haven't seen it. I think they probably are that

575
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,439
Speaker 4: you said the most disappointing team relative to pre tournament

576
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,479
Speaker 4: expectations for you is the Netherlands. For me, I think

577
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 4: it's Denmark and I haven't seen a team kill its

578
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 4: own attacks better than this team in the tournament. I

579
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 4: don't think the price is big enough on Australia to

580
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 4: have a Pontier, but it would be the soccer ruser

581
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 4: nothing for me out of spite, Anthony.

582
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, we could talk Denmark briefly

583
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,360
Speaker 2: what went wrong. They played a really poor first half

584
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 2: against Guenisia where they just couldn't shrin pass together and

585
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 2: they weren't you know, the wingers weren't creating anything and

586
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 2: they weren't getting set pieces, so they weren't able to

587
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,679
Speaker 2: use their edge there. They played a really good second

588
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 2: half against Tunisia and should have won the match. Sometimes

589
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 2: you don't take any of your chances and you draw

590
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 2: Neil Neil and you're saying, Okay, they got pumped by France.

591
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 2: That match was not that competitive, and even still after

592
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 2: their set piece equalizer, Braithwaite had a sitter to put

593
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 2: them up to one and basically win the group. And

594
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 2: that's the reality of these international tournaments. I mean, the

595
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 2: margins are so small. Did they deserve to win the group? No?

596
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 2: Were we on the right side of that bet? No,

597
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 2: But even still Braithwait's chance and then of course in

598
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,719
Speaker 2: Bappe and Boppe's the other end. But they were not

599
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 2: competitive at all with France. And it was kind of

600
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 2: bizarre because we're not even talking like, yes, last year's

601
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 2: Euros were incredible, but even in the Nation's League, Denmark

602
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 2: looked awesome. They played France off the park in one

603
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 2: of those two meetings, played even with them, and the

604
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 2: other one they looked dead. And so I don't know

605
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 2: what exactly went wrong. The attackers just didn't bring it.

606
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm passing here. I hope Denmark goes through

607
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,919
Speaker 2: because I think that they if they play Argentina, I

608
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 2: will be betting Denmark. But you know, the Danes are

609
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 2: doing that same thing where until the last twenty minutes

610
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 2: against France, in the last half against Tunisia, they have

611
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,360
Speaker 2: done nothing going forward and it's bizarre.

612
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 4: It is bizarre, and it's it's incredible poor, incredibly annoying.

613
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,959
Speaker 4: And also like Australia, to their credit, like they've scored

614
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 4: both games, scored early, and I know one of them

615
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 4: came against Tunisia, but they kind of deserved their their

616
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 4: one nil lead against France if it was a fifteen

617
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 4: minute game Anthony soccer was just fifteen minutes long.

618
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 2: They only scored because because Lucas Hearnetta's tour is ac Yeah.

619
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 4: But still like they played well in like the first

620
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 4: twenty ish minutes of that game, and then Nbape just

621
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 4: really flew. I think I've been at what I'm trying

622
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 4: to say is I've been a little bit impressed with Australia.

623
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 4: They're they're well organized. We knew that.

624
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 2: And their defense is really bad though, that's the only thing.

625
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 2: Like it's kind of uns it's movable object meets stop

626
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 2: before us. It's the Denmark. Yeah against they were really

627
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 2: poor Australia.

628
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 1: Yeah defense, I'm going down with the ship.

629
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 3: If you listen to this podcast long enough, they know

630
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 3: that I love going down with the ship and it

631
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 3: never works. But I'm on Denmark. I mean you can

632
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 3: find him ONNUS one ninety out there right now. I

633
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 3: do project them my minus to seventy. Like Australia is

634
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 3: a team. You saw it against France. They have to

635
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 3: have the ball to be successful. That's how they were

636
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 3: successful and actually getting here to the World Cup. They've

637
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 3: also been incredibly fortunate defensively throughout qualifying twelve goals off

638
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 3: of twenty one point seven expected, like they just have

639
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 3: no they're one of the least talented teams in this

640
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 3: entire field. They conceded four goals to France off of

641
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 3: four expected, like it was one of those matches where

642
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 3: you're just like, yeah, they just got pumped by them.

643
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 3: Now we have a situation where the Danes have to

644
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 3: go for it. Australia not that great at playing through pressure.

645
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 3: We know the Danes are very very good in terms

646
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 3: of their pressing. They should be able to control the ball.

647
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 3: And I'm taking them on the money line because once

648
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 3: the Danes go ahead and one nothing, they just need

649
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,360
Speaker 3: to sit on it. Like I'm not going to try

650
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 3: to bet them minus one because or even minus one

651
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 3: and a half because they don't need to get more

652
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 3: than that because they have to essentially have to assume

653
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 3: that Tniche is not going to beat France. But yeah,

654
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 3: I'm I'm just going to go down with the ship.

655
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 3: I actually do project some value on it and whatever.

656
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 4: Yep, whatever. Indeed, none of us have anything on Tunis

657
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 4: in France.

658
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: Kind of a weird but actually I might just bet

659
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: France over five and a half goals just whatever. It

660
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: is notable.

661
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 2: We talked about teams who have underperformed expectations the most.

662
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 2: France has overperformed the world.

663
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: The best outside and it's going to be them, and.

664
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 2: Uh and Teo and Bape are just sick and that's

665
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 2: like a problem for a lot of teams.

666
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 4: And Greek Gray's mind has turned into Andrea Pirlo. This

667
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 4: is something else.

668
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, somehow we can't do that for athlody Co and

669
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 3: get us through in the Champions League too.

670
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 2: Of many looks like just young Conte like they kind

671
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 2: of yeah, bitar, they a little more than a bit

672
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 2: they they kind of are on the good side of

673
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 2: the draw now, like when they play England in the quarterfinals.

674
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 2: I envision a world where BJ and I are on

675
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 2: opposite sides and It's gonna be really funny watching Kieran

676
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 2: Trippier try to guard and defend.

677
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 4: It's gonna be the wonder Goal waterloop.

678
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: Hopefully it goes as well as Wonderdog. Wednesday last, Yeah, yeah,

679
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 2: all right. The two games on Wednesday are the Group

680
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 2: C matchups.

681
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 4: Poland is six fraudulent. Then they're sick to one on

682
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 4: the money lined against Argentina, and Poland sit atop the group.

683
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: Right now, the seams are fraudulent.

684
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 4: There's six to one. Yeah, yeah, I mean every like

685
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 4: we keep saying it. Every team in this tournament is

686
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 4: for audulanic except for France and Ecuador and maybe and

687
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 4: Saudi Arabia two Poland six to one, Argentina minus two hundred,

688
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 4: the draws plus three twenty. Of course, these are all

689
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 4: odds provided to us by our wonderful friends at bet

690
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 4: three six y five. The situation here is Poland they

691
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 4: win the group and qualify with a win over Argentina.

692
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,719
Speaker 4: They can also get through with the draw, but they

693
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 4: would only win the group in that case. If Saudi

694
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 4: Arabia draws or loses to Mexico, Argentina can qualify with

695
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 4: a win or a draw. If Saudi Arabia draws or

696
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 4: loses by fewer than three goals to Mexico. They can

697
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 4: also win the group with a victory and a Saudi

698
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 4: Arabia draw a loss. In other words, everyone is in

699
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 4: this group is alive. Mexico is the biggest long shot

700
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 4: to get out. They need to win and make up

701
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 4: the gold differential between them and either Argentina or Poland, who.

702
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: Are right now.

703
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 4: Argentina's three better and Poland's four goals better. So a

704
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 4: lot to unpack with, like the two advanced scenarios, so

705
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 4: much so that you know it's it's basically you can

706
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 4: just look at these matches in a vacuum. Everybody's going

707
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 4: to be wanting to win it. Nobody's going to be

708
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 4: like managing situations and stuff like that. BJ. I'm kind

709
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 4: of with you on this. Here we'll start with Poland

710
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 4: and Argentina. I do think this number is a little short.

711
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 4: I think that Poland is maybe worth a sprinkle on

712
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 4: the money line. Argentina has failed to impress. They failed

713
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 4: to generate enough scoring chances to suggest that they're worth

714
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 4: trusting and minus two hundred. But Poland are dreadful too.

715
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 4: Like it's so it's hard to imagine them getting enough.

716
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 4: It's crazy that Poland. The Poland is the same price

717
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 4: as our Australia is against Denmark, which I think is

718
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 4: funny and basically the same price as Tu nisiea versus

719
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 4: France in this matchup. But I don't think that that's

720
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 4: the case. I think Poland is better than both Australia

721
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 4: and Tunisia and relative to their matchups. So I like Poland,

722
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 4: You like Poland, we don't like Argentina. I think that

723
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 4: this market is like this because everyone's expecting, oh, this

724
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 4: is a pre torn mid favorite. All they need to

725
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 4: do is get a result to get through MESSI can't

726
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 4: go home in the group stage. YadA, YadA, YadA. Ken

727
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 4: Poland steal it or at least keep it respectable.

728
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I'll be quite frank. Argenta sucked against Mexico like

729
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 3: they were terrible, and yes, they scored two goals from

730
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 3: outside the box. Everybody pails Messi as a god, and

731
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 3: then you know, everybody thinks Argentine is gonna get through it.

732
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 4: They sucked.

733
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 3: They had only had point two eight expected goals and

734
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 3: expected to try to point eight three. They had two

735
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 3: shots in the paled area and four deep completions. That's bad,

736
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 3: and especially going against a Poland team that is going

737
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 3: to sit in a low block and it is very

738
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 3: well drilled in doing so. And there's something very tactically

739
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 3: wrong with Argentina right now.

740
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: You know what they're doing.

741
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,479
Speaker 3: They're playing a lot like Juventus is, where they're basically

742
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 3: playing a hexagon with nobody in the middle of the pitch,

743
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 3: so they can't get the ball to Messi. They're forced

744
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 3: to swing it out Widge, they're two terrible fullbacks and

745
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 3: just try to swing and cross after cross after cross.

746
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: I mean they're in a four zero six.

747
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 3: When they're in possession, are either forced to play it

748
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 3: out wide or just play long balls or really risky

749
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 3: passes through the middle. Messi had ten passes received between

750
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 3: the lines against Mexico. That has to be his lowest

751
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 3: and Argentina shirt for his entire career.

752
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: They just they just have not impressed.

753
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,719
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, variants got they got the bad end

754
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 3: of variancegains Saudi Arabia, but even after they went down

755
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 3: two goals again Saudi Areba, they created one big chance

756
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 3: and then it was a ton of shots and just

757
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 3: outside the box and that's all they really do. And yes,

758
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 3: Messi is amazing and he can score from outside the box,

759
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,719
Speaker 3: but if you're constantly doing that over and over and

760
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 3: over again, like variant's gonna catch you on the wrong way.

761
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 3: And that's what happened against Saudi Arabia. So for a

762
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 3: Poland team that is well drilled to play in a

763
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 3: low block, they do have capable center backs, they have

764
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 3: a good goalkeeper in Chesney. So I'm on Poland plus one.

765
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 3: Like I don't see it with Argentina right now, Like

766
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 3: they're they're very very very something very very wrong with

767
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 3: them tackles because they just will not put a midfielder

768
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 3: in the middle of the pitch to come and receive

769
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 3: a pass. So Messi's got to come out even farther,

770
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 3: even farther to receive the ball. So for a team

771
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 3: that's going to sit in a low block like Poland

772
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 3: and they're just gonna have to You're gonna have to

773
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 3: hope that Argentina makes a couple of shots and outside

774
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 3: the box to cover this minus one.

775
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, bad day to be Rodrigo de Paul. Like I

776
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 2: was getting a lot of its end zone now, But

777
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 2: what happened to Perettis.

778
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: Likes pushed up the field. That's that's what I'm saying.

779
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 2: With the passer though, and they can't get the bottom

780
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 2: MESSI I agree one hundred percent with BJ about Argentina,

781
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 2: Like you played a weird match with Saudi Arabia where

782
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,800
Speaker 2: they came out with like a weird strategy. They played

783
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 2: super high, condensed the middle of the field, got you

784
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 2: off side a couple of times, and then you just

785
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 2: concede a couple of dumb goals. But like you said,

786
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 2: they ended up with you know, a little over two

787
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 2: expected goals that includes a penalty, so you're at like

788
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 2: one point three non penalty and then you take out

789
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 2: like a lot of just was just set pieces, set pieces,

790
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 2: set pieces. Because Satia Aba sat super deep as I

791
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 2: can have, I didn't think they were good at all.

792
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 2: And then I was like, oh, but they'll bounce back. Mexico,

793
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 2: poor team, no attack whatsoever, they'll rip them apart. I

794
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 2: actually bet Argentina in that match got super lucky. Like

795
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 2: you said, they had no chance. They didn't have a

796
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 2: single chance the whole game good chance. So I think

797
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 2: there's major problems with the Argentine going forward. But I

798
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 2: also don't like Poland. I mean, Poland has rode the

799
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 2: back of Chesney to this point. I mean he made

800
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 2: a couple of spectacular saves against Mexico where they were

801
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,800
Speaker 2: the weaker side in that match, and then he saved

802
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 2: a penn and the rebound in the Magic in saud Arabia,

803
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 2: and then made multiple other big saves where they should

804
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 2: have conceded goals there too. So I have question marks

805
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 2: about this Poland defense when they do nothing out of possession.

806
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 2: At least Mexico was contesting the passes into MESSI I

807
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 2: don't know if Poland can even stop that. So I'm

808
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 2: passing here. I have major problems with with both these

809
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 2: teams right now. If Argentina somehow gets second and they

810
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 2: play France, oh boy, we can get France at at

811
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 2: dog price. I don't think we are anymore You or

812
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 2: I or.

813
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 3: We might get We might get Argentina Denmark baby, and

814
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 3: then we then the Danes will find.

815
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 2: That's what I was saying said, I'm gonna be back

816
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 2: on the Danes when they play Argentina because.

817
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 4: They're not getting that's the Soccars are the third best

818
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 4: team in the world.

819
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: I'll bet Australia against Yeah.

820
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 4: So like I said, like every every but he's got

821
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 4: to look at these matches in a vacuum.

822
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, I mean.

823
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 4: I guess relative to expectations, has there been a more

824
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 4: impressive team in Saudi Arabia?

825
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 2: Again that award to France.

826
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 4: I know, like, what were your expectations for Saudi Arabia?

827
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 4: They were one thousand to one to win the World

828
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 4: Cup and they might do it.

829
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 2: I have them in my in our Calcutta So.

830
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: Guys know it's Coasta Rica. We'll get to them. Yeah.

831
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,760
Speaker 4: Saudi Arabia's plus three seventy five, Yes, odds on minus

832
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 4: one fifty, the draws plus three twenty. Herve Renard is

833
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 4: minus one thirty. He's the odds on the odds on

834
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 4: favorite to win most handsome coach in the tournament, just

835
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,720
Speaker 4: ahead of AliOS twice.

836
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: By the way, with Zambia and Ivory Coast, I.

837
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 4: Think Saudi Arabia are one hundred percent worth of bet Yeah,

838
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 4: I think seventy five.

839
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: Yeah.

840
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 2: Mexico has not scored yet.

841
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 4: Mexico has not yet, and have they have looked at

842
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 4: like not even close? And their one memo of choa

843
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 4: penalty save away from being completely caput right, and this

844
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 4: price would look very different.

845
00:36:59,360 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: It's going to be.

846
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 4: First of all, I want to say one thing about

847
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 4: the atmosphere for this match. Saudi Arabia's fans have been unbelievable.

848
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 4: Mexico's fans, of course, they're always unbelievable at the World Cup, Anthony,

849
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 4: I know this is your first one, but the Mexican

850
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 4: fans have this reputation of just traveling in droves no

851
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 4: matter where the World Cup is, showing up and turning

852
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 4: it into a party. Have they've done that with or

853
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 4: without surveysas and so it's going to be a beautiful sounding.

854
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: Cacophony type of match.

855
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 4: But I think the Saudi Arabian fans will be the

856
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 4: ones singing at the end, and this price doesn't reflect it.

857
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 4: Plus three seventy five I think is a good good

858
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 4: price on a team that they're approaching every game differently.

859
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 4: They're like, they looked really good against Poland, like they

860
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 4: should have scored Chesney, like you said, like he stops

861
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 4: a penalty, and it was really good throughout that entire

862
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 4: first like thirty five minutes where Poland was weathering the

863
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 4: storm against Saudi Arabia. I can see a similar kind

864
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 4: of scenario playing out here as Mexico doesn't scare me.

865
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 4: I'm not laying minus one fifty with Mexico. I would

866
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 4: love to meet the people that are seriously bj.

867
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I agree, but I'm gonna play in Saudi

868
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 3: Arabia eighteen to one to win this group because if

869
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 3: you truly believe that they can win this match, and

870
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 3: you believe that Argentina has major problems and can't is

871
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 3: not gonna be able to get by Poland, Like, there

872
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 3: is a real scenario where Saudi Arabia wins this group

873
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 3: and they will be playing the second place in Group D,

874
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 3: which might be Australia in the round of sixteen.

875
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: That's a that's a very real possibility right now.

876
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 3: And I don't think people are I don't think the

877
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 3: market's really looking at that because I mean, think about it.

878
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: I mean, even if they play deadmark right.

879
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 3: Exactly, Like if you truly I mean, you know, Saudi

880
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 3: Arabia is what plus three seventy five on the money

881
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 3: line here, Yeah, Mexico's done nothing, Like if Saudi Araba

882
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 3: is going to play a high line. Besides Flazano, Like,

883
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 3: who is getting in behind this this high line is

884
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 3: gonna be ral Jmenez. He looks not very very old

885
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 3: Vegas and not effective whatsoever. I mean Argentina was dreadful,

886
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 3: but Mexico was dreadful offensive league ininst Argentina like they

887
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 3: only created like point two point twenty.

888
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: Six expected goals they're expected throughout was terrible.

889
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean Saudi Arabia, I mean they're the

890
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 3: thing about them is they're a team that I said

891
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 3: it like guitar is very well drilled at playing together,

892
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 3: like they're all and are very cohesive. They know what

893
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 3: they need to do. Her Bernard outstanding manager. He'll play

894
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 3: the high line and he'll put pressure on on this

895
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 3: Mexican team, and they just they have not looked good

896
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 3: so far. And it was kind of a carryover all

897
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 3: we kind of were talking about coming into the tournament

898
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 3: where they were very underwhelming throughout CONCACAF qualifying, Like they

899
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 3: were very poor against the United States. So this is

900
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 3: another scenario where I'm gonna betting the chaos. So I'll

901
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 3: be on Saudi Arabia eighteen to one to win this group.

902
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 2: Let's go back to Cocacaf. Now let's go back to

903
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 2: Coca Caf, because let's think about some of these teams

904
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 2: and how they've done at the World Cup. Costa Rica

905
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 2: conceded seven to Spain. Mexico, Mexico struggled against them. Yeah,

906
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 2: I know they beat you, pamp but that was a

907
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 2: mickey mass Mexico. Mexico struggles against them. Mexico couldn't beat

908
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 2: the United States and qualifying, Mexico couldn't beat candidate in

909
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 2: qualifying who just got ripped apart by Croatia and got

910
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 2: ripped apart in friendlies before that. Defensively, like there, we're

911
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 2: clearly defensive issues with Canada that you know, we maybe

912
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 2: glossed over because we love our friends in the North,

913
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 2: but like Mexico hasn't been a good attack for a

914
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 2: long time and they are in deep trouble going forward.

915
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,280
Speaker 2: If you can't get margin as a favorite, I'm happy

916
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 2: to take the underdog, and Saudi Arabia has given me

917
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 2: a reason to believe, So I'm going to take them

918
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 2: plus a half with a little money line sprinkle. And

919
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 2: now that Bja I mentioned it, I might even have to,

920
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 2: you know, toss in on that.

921
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: That's a crazy price for the groups we have we have.

922
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, I mean if they if they win and

923
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 2: Argentina wins, it comes down a goal difference, they.

924
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: Would be at a little.

925
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 3: Argentina's at plus one right now and Sadi sat.

926
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 2: Is minus one Drawndowski, Yeah.

927
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: Essentially, but again it's eighteen to one. Like it's it's a.

928
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 3: Fantastic price given all we need is the Saudi Arabia

929
00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 3: win against this poor Mexico team and a Poland defensive masterclass.

930
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 4: Okay, we'll move on to Thursday. We'll start with Group

931
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 4: F because they're the ten am kickoffs, and as Anthony

932
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 4: alluded to our friends to the North Canada, they got

933
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 4: absolutely ripped apart by Croatia, so they are out of

934
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 4: the tournament. They are plus two to sixty against Morocco,

935
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 4: who are plus one oh five in their match, and

936
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 4: the draw is plus two forty. Morocco advances with a

937
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:26,240
Speaker 4: win or draw. They can also advance with a loss

938
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 4: as long as Belgium loses, and then they can also

939
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 4: advance with a loss and a Belgium win as long

940
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 4: as their goal differential is better than Croatia, which right

941
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 4: now they are one goal behind Croatia. They can also

942
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 4: win the group by bettering Croatia's result and making up

943
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 4: the goal DIFFERENTI so Morocco, Baby, we're onto something here.

944
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 4: The price is just way too short though, I think

945
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,720
Speaker 4: against Canada. I know people are going to say Canada's

946
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 4: got nothing to play for, but they do.

947
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:52,919
Speaker 1: They've never wonted the World Cup.

948
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 4: They've got fans over there, They're going to want to

949
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 4: get a win on the board. I don't think there

950
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 4: are some teams like if this was Germany, sure, like

951
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 4: maybe Germany just lays an egg against in their last match.

952
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 4: But this isn't Germany. This as Canada team that this

953
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 4: would mean something.

954
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: I think so I.

955
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 4: Would be closer to Canada at this price than Morocco.

956
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 4: But ultimately it's a pass for me. Anthony, What are

957
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 4: your thoughts here?

958
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that the matchup's not terrible

959
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 2: for Canada. I think that Morocco doesn't have the midfield

960
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 2: quality necessarily or the transitional skill to really cook Canada

961
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 2: up the middle, where they're you know, showing to be

962
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 2: at their weakest, whether it's the center backs or the

963
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 2: defensive midfield. At Tiba, Hutchinson looking a bit washed out there.

964
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm not playing them. I'm just gonna

965
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 2: ride the Morocco ticket that we have. They still have

966
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 2: a chance to win this group if they win and

967
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 2: the other matchs in a draw, which would be a

968
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 2: very fearable and tournament saving situation for some. So that's

969
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 2: what I'm riding out here. From a stylistic point of view,

970
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 2: I think Morocco has been extremely impressive. I mean they

971
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 2: took a part Croatia's attack and held them under point

972
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 2: six expected goals, and then took apart the Belgium attack

973
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 2: and held them under one expected goal. Not that's saying

974
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 2: much anymore because of what Belgium is, but like this

975
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 2: Morocco defense is legitimate. They're extremely organized. Out of the midfield.

976
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 2: Sophie an Amrabat probably my player at the tournament thus far.

977
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 2: He's been everywhere. Outplayed Luka Modrich in match week one,

978
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 2: outplayed Kevin debryna match week two. Not many people can

979
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 2: say that, so I think Amrabat's been incredibly impressive. Kemi

980
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 2: ball progression machine is always Ziek whipping in some awesome

981
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 2: free kicks. They really should have had that out of

982
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 2: that first goal too, but yeah, Morocco's been solid. Don't

983
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 2: love them as a big favorite here though. I think

984
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 2: it's a little bit inflated.

985
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 1: If they were the only team we were right about.

986
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:40,800
Speaker 2: There's one more.

987
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's true, I guess.

988
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 3: I mean, if you have a Morocco to advanced ticket

989
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 3: at two to one, you can head you with Canada

990
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 3: money line because there's no scenario where correct me if

991
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 3: I'm wrong, but there is absolutely no scenario where Morocco

992
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 3: draws and.

993
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 1: Doesn't go through.

994
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 3: So if you truly want to hedge it, you can

995
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 3: take Canada money line and the way you have nice

996
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 3: little house money.

997
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 1: But yeah, other than maybe a hedge, I'm just passing.

998
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,240
Speaker 1: That's when the price is way too short.

999
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:11,280
Speaker 4: The other match is a fun one between Croatia and Belgium.

1000
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 4: Croatias and Belgium Crocha is a slight slight slide underdogs games.

1001
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 4: Basically a pick them there plus one seventy Belgium plus

1002
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 4: one sixty the draw plus two forty at pattery sixty five.

1003
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 4: Croatia gets through with a win or a draw and

1004
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 4: a Morocco loss. They can also win the group by

1005
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 4: just bettering Morocco's result.

1006
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:26,720
Speaker 1: Belgium.

1007
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 4: They need to win. They need to win, or technically

1008
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 4: they can get through with a draw and a loss

1009
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 4: by Morocco as long as Morocco loses by more than

1010
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,720
Speaker 4: three goals, which is not going to happen. I think

1011
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 4: Croatia is worth a bet here.

1012
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: They're going to.

1013
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 4: Even as a pick them. Let's just look at it

1014
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 4: from kind of like the transitive property. Belgium really struggled

1015
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 4: against Canada. They couldn't figure out how to move the

1016
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,280
Speaker 4: ball through the lines, through the midfield, and then Croatia

1017
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 4: just made it look like a walk in the park.

1018
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 4: They just ripped Canada to shreds. And then Belgium really

1019
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 4: struggled against Morocco. And I mean, I know Croatia didn't

1020
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 4: really get much going and Morocco is a better team

1021
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 4: than that match, but Morocco just dominated. I thought Belgium

1022
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 4: compared to like what you'd expect. And I think that

1023
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 4: there is a path of course to success for a

1024
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 4: team like Belgium. They always is. They've got one of

1025
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 4: the best goalkeepers in the world, They've got one of

1026
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 4: the best players in the world in de Bruyna, and

1027
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 4: then of course Lukaku, maybe if he turns back the

1028
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 4: clock a little bit like sure, like you can give

1029
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 4: a Croatian, you know, suspect Croatian defense in terms of

1030
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 4: personnel issues. But I think that getting Croatia as a

1031
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 4: pick them here is it's absolutely worth it.

1032
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: PJ. I read you a couple of quotes Michael that

1033
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: I came out of Belgian camp the last few.

1034
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 3: Days after they beat Canada. Kevin m Bruyna said, we're

1035
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 3: now winning the World Cup.

1036
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 1: We're too old.

1037
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 3: Our best chances in twenty eighteen, which is what we

1038
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 3: said coming into the World Cup, so he's right. Then

1039
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 3: they lose to Morocco, and then Jamfertongan taught him a legend,

1040
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 3: said yeah, we probably attacked badly too because we are

1041
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 3: too old. Right, So I don't think Belgian's playing really

1042
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 3: inspired ball to come back and get out of this

1043
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 3: group and win tournament. Plus, I mean they've looked so

1044
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 3: dreadful an attack. I mean eton hazard if they try

1045
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 3: to start him again, like over the best player in

1046
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 3: the world, Leandrew Trissard, like it's a crime because he

1047
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 3: has done absolutely nothing. De Boyne looks terrible when he

1048
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 3: doesn't have good players around him. Mukaku might be back

1049
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 3: for this one. But how effective is he going to be.

1050
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 3: He's been out for two months with an injury, and

1051
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 3: even before that injury, he was in terrible for him

1052
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 3: as it is. And you said it, Michael, I mean

1053
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 3: after Croatia conceded the.

1054
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: Opening goal of Canada, they just pounded them in the midfield.

1055
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: They controlled possession and they controlled the midfield.

1056
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 3: They were able to go through the lines, they were

1057
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 3: able to go out wide like they just looked incredible.

1058
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: And how I mean it gives me I have no.

1059
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 3: Reason to believe that they are not going to do

1060
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 3: the They're going to do the exact same thing to

1061
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 3: Belgium in this match, because Belgium has got exposed at

1062
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 3: every single position.

1063
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: Maybe except for goalkeeper.

1064
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 3: They just they look terrible like they're out a minus

1065
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 3: two point two expect a goal differential right now. So

1066
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 3: I'm on Croatia, even though I don't project much value

1067
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 3: on it. I think we get one of these teams

1068
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 3: every single time Ornament that just they just quit like

1069
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 3: they for whatever reason, the team just doesn't gel. It

1070
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 3: happened to France, you know, in twenty ten.

1071
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: It's escaping who happened to the last World Cup.

1072
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 4: But Germany Germany.

1073
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: That's what it was.

1074
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 2: Yep.

1075
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 3: It just happens to one of these teams. And Belgium

1076
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 3: is the team this year. Sounds like they all hate

1077
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 3: each other. Robert Martinez is not the guy to men

1078
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 3: defenses and get everybody to play inspired ball. So I

1079
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 3: will be on Croatia as well. Pick them at plus

1080
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 3: one hundred.

1081
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 4: All right, Anthony, what about you?

1082
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's make it three for three. I mean, look,

1083
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 2: we saw a team with younger, more athletic players just

1084
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 2: try to come out and pressure and play with Croatia

1085
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 2: where they went at him and they had some aging

1086
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 2: midfielders and some underperforming center backs and they got absolutely

1087
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 2: wrecked in transition. And that game was Canada Croatia. Belgium

1088
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 2: is worse than Canada. They are worse than Croatia. They

1089
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 2: are worse than Morocco. How many teams in this field

1090
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 2: are worse than Belgium. Six? I did a quick count.

1091
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:01,720
Speaker 1: I got to so not Costa Rica.

1092
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 4: Costa Rica is worse, yeah, I mean not or Cameroon's

1093
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:10,879
Speaker 4: number three in my power rank.

1094
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,280
Speaker 2: Now, the teams that I had that were definitely worse

1095
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 2: than Belgium were Cutter, Wales, Mexico Tunisia, Australia and Costa

1096
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 2: Rica are those are the only teams that I would

1097
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,439
Speaker 2: confidently say were worse than Belgium, and that that's where

1098
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 2: we're at now. I mean, look, they're just not that good.

1099
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 2: And Martinez refuses to play trossard ed Hazard. I mean,

1100
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 2: there were a lot of times in the Morocco match

1101
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 2: where they got the ball to Edon Hazard with one

1102
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 2: guy in front of him, and every single time that

1103
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 2: guy dispossessed him or he was forced to play back.

1104
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 2: There is no explosiveness left. And Debrun has been bad,

1105
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 2: and I think his mindset's all off. I mean, I

1106
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 2: think he realizes it. He was he plays soccer for

1107
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 2: a really good team, and he knows what good soccer is,

1108
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 2: and he knows what shit soccer is. And he's watched

1109
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 2: this Belgium team completely implode. So I wonder if Martinez

1110
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 2: will give some of the younger guys a run, like

1111
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,280
Speaker 2: I'd love to see Trossar Doku, like, give me something different,

1112
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 2: feel inspired. But if they roll the same, I levit out.

1113
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,839
Speaker 2: It's Croatia Hammer time. We may only get one more chance.

1114
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 2: We are gonna only get one more chance, probably to

1115
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 2: fade these clowns. They've conceded three point nine expected goals.

1116
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 2: The only teams that have conceded more are Australia Saudi Arabia.

1117
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 2: It was a penalty in there. Costa Rica Saudi Arabia.

1118
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 4: That's it. That's really bad.

1119
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 2: So it's just a fraudulent team and they're gonna get

1120
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 2: exposed all like Croatia hopefully, part of me says will

1121
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 2: take the draw and then Morocco will win the group.

1122
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 4: I actually think like chasing an alt line too. I

1123
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 4: could see like Croatia getting out to like a two

1124
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 4: nil lead in Belgium.

1125
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I was saying, I will betting Croatia minus

1126
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 3: one and a half or minus two and a half,

1127
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,800
Speaker 3: like I've been doing a lot this tournament to varied success.

1128
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 4: Speaking of veried success, Costa Rica has had varied success

1129
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 4: so far in this tournament.

1130
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: They lost seven nothing to Spain and you guys, they

1131
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:58,479
Speaker 1: beat Japan one nil.

1132
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 4: These are the two PM games on Thursday, that's December first.

1133
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 4: Costa Rica's the odds makers are projecting a squeaker here.

1134
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,439
Speaker 4: They're twenty two to one against Germany, who are minus

1135
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 4: a thousand. The draw here is nine ten.

1136
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: They're eighty to one to win the group. By the way, everybody, yeah,

1137
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:12,760
Speaker 1: eighty to one to win the group.

1138
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 4: Japan and Spain are in the other matchup. Japan seven

1139
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,479
Speaker 4: plus seven fifty, Spain minus two to fifty. The draw

1140
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 4: is plus three fifty. The situation here is fun. Every

1141
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 4: one of these teams can advance, So it's interesting. I

1142
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 4: don't think really, I know you guys around Costa Rica

1143
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 4: to not score, but let's let's quickly run through that one.

1144
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 4: BJ will start with you. We know you have no

1145
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 4: love loss for this team.

1146
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're new to betting soccer and it's

1147
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 3: specifically Costa Rica, what happened aginst Japan is just par

1148
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 3: for the course of what they do. They just sit back,

1149
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:48,439
Speaker 3: they do absolutely nothing for the first hour to maybe

1150
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 3: seventy seventy five minutes.

1151
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: They get one chance, they convert it and they win.

1152
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: That's what they did all through all CONCACAFT qualifying. That's

1153
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,280
Speaker 1: the only reason they're here.

1154
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:02,240
Speaker 3: I mean, so far this tournament they have zero point

1155
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:03,760
Speaker 3: one to one expected goals.

1156
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: That was all against Japan.

1157
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 3: They've taken four shots, none of which have come in

1158
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 3: the penalty area, and they've had five touches in the

1159
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:11,479
Speaker 3: opponent's penalty area.

1160
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 1: They stink.

1161
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 3: Now, the game theory here is the only realistic chance

1162
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 3: that Costa Rica has getting out of this group getting

1163
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 3: the round sixteen is parked the bus, pray to God

1164
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 3: that they don't concede against Germany and somehow get a

1165
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 3: draw and then Spain beats Japan. Germany, I mean, they're

1166
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 3: obviously a very possession dominant side. You could say, oh, well,

1167
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 3: you know, their defense can be open at times, like

1168
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 3: that's kind of concerning for me. But you know, after

1169
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 3: the Euros, after Hansei Flick took over, they played a

1170
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 3: bunch of smaller nations throughout World Cup qualifying. They played

1171
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 3: North Macedonia, Leechenstein, Iceland, Romanian Armenia. Instead of those seven matches,

1172
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 3: they only conceded about four expected. So you can find

1173
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:52,800
Speaker 3: a Costa Rica not to score at minus one twenty

1174
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 3: right now, which I think is just an insane price.

1175
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,399
Speaker 3: I don't see a scenario where they're going to try

1176
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,479
Speaker 3: to play an open match with Germany, like they're gonna

1177
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 3: park the bus and they're going to hope to God

1178
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 3: they don't concede.

1179
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.

1180
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 3: I don't see a scenario where Costa Rica even sniffs

1181
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 3: the German nets. So I'm on them not to score

1182
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 3: for a lot of money. And if I if I don't,

1183
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 3: if they score, I'll be bankrupt, responsibly.

1184
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 4: Responsibly bankrupt.

1185
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 2: I got up burly for the first half and I

1186
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 2: missed the lineups, so the game had already started. It

1187
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 2: was the five am Japan Coasta Rican match, and I'm

1188
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,320
Speaker 2: watching the game and I'm like, wait a minute, like

1189
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 2: who are these guys, like where are the good players?

1190
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,800
Speaker 2: And my I mean, so I pulled up the app

1191
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 2: and I said, wait a minute. We're not starting Kubo,

1192
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 2: We're not starting min Amino're not starting Asano, We're not

1193
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 2: starting Eto.

1194
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 3: Even if they started, it didn't matter, It didn't matter,

1195
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 3: didn't matter. This was going to happen either way. This

1196
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 3: is what happens, what costes.

1197
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,880
Speaker 2: A friendly That that was one of the most obscene

1198
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 2: managerial things I've ever seen in watching soccer, and I, yes,

1199
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 2: this is my first World Cup, so you have to

1200
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 2: keep that in mind. As you guys keep saying, even

1201
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 2: though it's funny fourth, but I mean, it is ridiculous

1202
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 2: that they just gave away a half where they took

1203
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 2: one shot. There were point zero five total expected goals

1204
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 2: in the first half of the match. Nobody came close

1205
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 2: to scoring. They just said, yeah, we'll just shorten the

1206
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 2: game to forty five minutes. And great Japan played a

1207
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 2: good second half. They created a bunch of chances. They

1208
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 2: probably should have scored one. But when you shorten the game,

1209
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 2: you're just doing the underdog a favor. And that's exactly

1210
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 2: what they did. And our Japan tickets would have cashed

1211
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:30,160
Speaker 2: if they just won that freaking match and now we

1212
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:34,280
Speaker 2: have to sweat the German frauds would be done. I mean,

1213
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 2: it was incredibly frustrating. Swung the whole tournament and really

1214
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 2: I have not been the same as a man or

1215
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 2: as a soccer fan since. And that was that was obscene.

1216
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna put more money on Japan again. And

1217
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 2: you know what, you know what, both teams to score

1218
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 2: against Spain because I think it's a good again, it's

1219
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 2: a good matchup, like they can do the same things

1220
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 2: to Germany in Spain they did to Germany and Spain

1221
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 2: has shown some cracks defensively.

1222
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,359
Speaker 3: If they play opening against Spain like it is, Oh

1223
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 3: that's nice city man, Yeah, I.

1224
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 4: Don't think that they're going to I think that, Like

1225
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 4: we saw what happened with Spaining against Germany too, Like

1226
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 4: they tried to take attack of their way from the goal,

1227
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 4: from goal line and goal line, and one mistake in

1228
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 4: Germany swarmed them right. Like, Yeah, Japan could do the

1229
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:18,720
Speaker 4: same thing. I think Japan.

1230
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,840
Speaker 2: Although if Spain starts Avara Maratta, that could be the

1231
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 2: missing link. Maybe we should call the louist a Rica

1232
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:24,760
Speaker 2: and tell him, hey, man.

1233
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 4: Start your best player.

1234
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 2: You got the striker who's really good, the.

1235
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: Best player in the world.

1236
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 4: Japan's plus seven fifty, Spain minus two to fifty. The

1237
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 4: draw is plus three fifty. Anthony, you talked about both

1238
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 4: teams to score. I like Japan on the money line.

1239
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 4: Of course, the Japan saga this this World Cup, man, Nail,

1240
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 4: I'm six six fifty plus six to fifty against Germany.

1241
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 4: Pat myself on the back. No, to be responsible and

1242
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 4: not bet them against as a favorite against Costa Rica,

1243
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 4: but fully expecting, you know, my my Japan futures to

1244
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 4: make the semi final thirty four to one, all that stuff. Nope,

1245
00:54:58,200 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 4: be in great shape because they're the best team in

1246
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 4: the world and then they lose.

1247
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 2: They were lining up to get a great round of

1248
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 2: sixteen draw. Its potentially really good quarterfinal draw. Yeah, they got.

1249
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 4: Group Everything was looking great.

1250
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 2: Portugal in the quarters. It was a joke got past Croatia.

1251
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 1: If they got past Costa Rican. This is what does

1252
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,320
Speaker 1: you guys don't understand. I just don't understand.

1253
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 4: Oh it's it's we learned the hard way.

1254
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you learn.

1255
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:25,839
Speaker 3: But this is what happened to me. This is why

1256
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 3: I got so mad, because Coastri did this to me

1257
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 3: time and time and time and time again. Throughout conck Cat.

1258
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 2: We hit those Spain bets and we had a lot

1259
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 2: of money on those.

1260
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I like you.

1261
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:37,839
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna say, I like Japan on the money line.

1262
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 4: I think, like Anthony said, like they can have there

1263
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 4: is a path, there's like a viable path to success

1264
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 4: here there plus seven fifty against Japan. They were six

1265
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 4: to one against Germany. Is Spain that much better than Germany?

1266
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I'm gone they're better, but they're

1267
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 4: not that much better. I'm not Japan.

1268
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1269
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 4: Baja. Do you have anything here before we move on?

1270
00:55:57,560 --> 00:55:59,839
Speaker 1: No, let's just move on. I just do it just

1271
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: it was just sad. All right.

1272
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,320
Speaker 4: Let's talk about the final day of the group stage.

1273
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 4: That's Friday, December the second. We'll start with Group age

1274
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 4: because that's the ten am kickoffs. Ghana there plus three

1275
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 4: seventy five against Uruguay minus one forty three.

1276
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 1: The draw here is plus to eighty.

1277
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 4: For those of you like Anthony, who this is your

1278
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 4: first World Cup. Ghana and Uruguay actually have a ridiculous

1279
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 4: rivalry stemming from the twenty ten World Cup when Luis

1280
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 4: Suarez did the reverse hand of God, saved a ball

1281
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 4: off the line with his hand it would have been

1282
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:31,760
Speaker 4: a goal, and then I think it was Asmo Gian

1283
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:33,760
Speaker 4: it's the penalty.

1284
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: And var didn't exist at that point exactly.

1285
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:39,240
Speaker 4: And Uruguay got through. You could say it was heroic,

1286
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 4: you could say it was villainous, but he did what

1287
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 4: he did. So Ghanan's don't forget like that. They've been

1288
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 4: looking their chopped once they saw they got you on

1289
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 4: into Las Celeste's group here, and it's a It's a

1290
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 4: fun situation when you consider the rivalry because all these

1291
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 4: years later, Ghana ken return the favor and kick Uruguay

1292
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:01,840
Speaker 4: out of the tournament. Uruguay needs a win and a

1293
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 4: South Korea loss or draw South Korea. We've taken up

1294
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 4: Portugal for Uruguay, the team that we all thought and

1295
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 4: we were right, good dark horse bet. If fifty don't

1296
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 4: want to win the whole tournament, they're still going to

1297
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 4: do it. Kinda just needs a win or draw. But

1298
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 4: if they draw, they need to have a better goal

1299
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 4: differential than South Korea. South Korea win. So God is

1300
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 4: in a good spot here, Anthony Pj's going down with

1301
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 4: the Danish ship. I'm going down with the Japanese ship,

1302
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 4: and you're going down with the sky Blue ship.

1303
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 2: I mean, look, we were recording this right after the match.

1304
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 2: I'm still tilting, so I have not placed a wager yet,

1305
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 2: but I will be on Urraguay. I mean, this team

1306
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 2: underperformed their underline numbers going forward in South America, qualifying

1307
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 2: by ten goals. It got so bad at one point

1308
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 2: they fired the old manager, brought a new manager. They

1309
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 2: got the new manager bounds where they played the same

1310
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 2: and then the results got better cause Savarians and they

1311
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:01,439
Speaker 2: were the better team today against Portugal. I mean, look,

1312
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 2: people were you know, my friends who don't really watch

1313
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 2: that much soccer were like, man, Portugal has a lot

1314
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 2: of the ball, like is kind of getting cooked, and

1315
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 2: I'm like, look, that's the Uruguay way. They have thirty

1316
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 2: percent of the ball. Portugal took nine terrible shots in

1317
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 2: the first half. Or I had the best two chances.

1318
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 2: Benton Kurd weaves his way through the entire defense, misses

1319
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 2: the chance. Darwin had a good chance missed, and then

1320
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:26,040
Speaker 2: Portugal scores off of a cross it was gonna be

1321
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 2: headed but whifted and I mean, what the hell was that?

1322
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: And then.

1323
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 2: Says, all right, now we got to come out and play.

1324
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 2: Let's play. They hit the post, They missed a chance

1325
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 2: with Suarez, they missed a chance through Gomez, they missed

1326
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 2: a chance through forgetting who it was, but when he

1327
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 2: should have crossed it to the teammate, but he shot

1328
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,439
Speaker 2: at the goalie. It was hilarious. I mean, they created

1329
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 2: over one and a half expected goals, did not score.

1330
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 2: Portugal was under one. Scored twice. They got a penalty

1331
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 2: that I didn't think it was a penalty, but at

1332
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 2: that point, I mean, by the rule book, the rule

1333
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 2: the rule book, it is not a pal The ref said,

1334
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 2: what can we do? Yeah, So you know that correlates

1335
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:06,439
Speaker 2: to both of my bets here. Look, I bet Korea

1336
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 2: against Ghana. I thought Korea was better than God they

1337
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 2: outside them what twenty two to seven created way more chances,

1338
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 2: a ton of crossing, a ton of successful crossing. Goalie

1339
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 2: made some nice plays, got a lot of last ditch

1340
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 2: block defending. Credit to Gnaeians for that, and they have

1341
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 2: a fun attacking group for sure. But man Korea and Uruguay,

1342
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 2: I just broke my soul today and I'm ready to

1343
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 2: have them break my soul once more. So I'm gonna

1344
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 2: be on Korea plus one against Portugal, who's already qualified,

1345
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 2: still remains fraudulent and kind of stinks yep. I mean,

1346
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 2: go back to the Ghana match against Portugal two. If

1347
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 2: a k noty Williams doesn't slip, it's time match. So

1348
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:43,880
Speaker 2: and also the Mickey Mass penalty to Ronaldo of course.

1349
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 2: So yeah, I like Korea plus one and I like Uruguay.

1350
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 2: I think, well, I guess if Korea draws and then

1351
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 2: Uruguay wins or Aguay goes through.

1352
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: Yep, that's got to win.

1353
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 4: They need to win, and South Korea can't win here

1354
00:59:57,400 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 4: is so they win.

1355
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 1: As long as as if you guy.

1356
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 4: Wins in South Korea doesn't win lots of Celeste to

1357
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 4: get through our tickets, stay alive.

1358
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 2: To face Brazil in the act, which which I'm not

1359
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 2: that afraid of anymore. I think Brazil's kidding, but yeah,

1360
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 2: I mean, the whole point of the ticket was to

1361
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 2: get to the other side of the bracket by winning

1362
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 2: today's match against Portugal, which we should have done and

1363
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 2: we didn't, and now the whole BET's dead. But such

1364
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 2: as life, there will be other bets. They will be

1365
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 2: other bets.

1366
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:27,920
Speaker 1: I'm with Anthey on both bets. And I want a

1367
01:00:27,960 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 1: little trivia question for you guys.

1368
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 3: How many crosses did South Korea have against Gone today

1369
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 3: and how many of those were successfully completed into the box?

1370
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 4: Sixteen and three.

1371
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 2: I'll go with four and thirty two.

1372
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 3: They had thirty five crosses and they completed fifteen of

1373
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 3: them into the box. That is the most at a

1374
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 3: World Cup.

1375
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 1: Ever.

1376
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 3: So for an Hurguay team that primarily does like to

1377
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 3: get ball down the channels and swinging crosses to whatever

1378
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 3: combination of it's going to be with Nudiez, Kabani or

1379
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 3: Suarez like that is kind of concerning like they scored.

1380
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 3: That's how South Korea scored their two goals. I mean, listen,

1381
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 3: Ghana like, yeah, they created a bunch of chances like

1382
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 3: they did it against Portugal as well, like they scored

1383
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 3: on all three shots on target today. I'm not going

1384
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:13,160
Speaker 3: to sit in here and say that I was a

1385
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:15,439
Speaker 3: lucky win for them, because you know, expected goals was even,

1386
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 3: and they took advantage of their chances that they had,

1387
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 3: which were big chances. But they're going to be in

1388
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 3: a scenario now where they just need a draw essentially

1389
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 3: and they are through barring obviously a South Korea win

1390
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 3: over Portugal, so I expect them to sit very defensive

1391
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:31,920
Speaker 3: and try to defend all these crosses yet again. And

1392
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 3: they did that against Portugal, right, They sat very defensive

1393
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 3: like they they're playing very conservative to start out, and

1394
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 3: they just created nothing going forward and Portugal completely dominated them.

1395
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 3: And then after the Ronaldo penalty is when Ghana was like,

1396
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 3: oh crap, like we got to kick things into high gear.

1397
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 3: And they did create a few chances, but they also

1398
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 3: were incredibly open and allowed Portugal scored two goals and

1399
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 3: created a bunch of chances themselves. So I'm a guy

1400
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 3: I agree with you. I'm on Uruguay minus one thirty.

1401
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 3: I think it's a very very cheap price for a

1402
01:01:56,840 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 3: team that has underperformed so far in this tournament. Like

1403
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 3: they weren't very good against South Korea, but they were

1404
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 3: obviously much better against Portugal today and listen, they got

1405
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 3: to go for it now. So I think we'll see

1406
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 3: their attacking players play much more inspired ball, much more

1407
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,920
Speaker 3: much better pressing against a Ganan team that does have talent.

1408
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 3: But yeah, and then yeah, Portugal. I mean, it's it's

1409
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 3: simple game therey. Portugal just needs to draw and they

1410
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 3: win the group. So I'm obviously gonna be on South

1411
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 3: Korea plus one at minus one thirty.

1412
01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:23,360
Speaker 1: Five, because they've looked good in both matches, Like.

1413
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 3: They weren't good in the first half against Ghana, but

1414
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 3: they rebounded very nicely and they created a couple of

1415
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 3: big chances, and I thought they man, I thought they

1416
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 3: were going to pull off a historic comeback, and then

1417
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 3: Ghana just sunk me.

1418
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm probably just gonna cry. We'll watch

1419
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 4: yourguay I lose to Khana. But yeah, I'm with you.

1420
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 4: I think South Korea is the right side against Portugal.

1421
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:47,440
Speaker 4: Considering the situation and if I'm going to bet Uruguay,

1422
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 4: I'm gonna bet them on an allt line. The two

1423
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 4: pm games on Friday Camera Roon I think have been

1424
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 4: the most entertaining team to watch on the tournament. They're

1425
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 4: nine nine to one against Brazil is four hundred. The

1426
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 4: draw here is five to one. The other matches Serbia

1427
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 4: at Switzerland. Serbia is a slight favorite plus one forty five,

1428
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 4: Switzerland plus one eighty seven, the draw plus two forty.

1429
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 4: Of course, those and all odds on the show are

1430
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:15,479
Speaker 4: brought to you by our good friends at bet three six'.

1431
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 4: Five here's how this group sets. Up brazil is through.

1432
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 4: Already they win the group with a winner or draw

1433
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 4: Or switzerland. Loss, switzerland they are in a situation where

1434
01:03:25,240 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 4: if they avoid a defeat they are. Through they just

1435
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 4: need a winner or drug Against. Serbia cameroon needs a

1436
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 4: win Against brazil and A switzerland. Loss they can also

1437
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 4: get through with a win Against brazil by at least

1438
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:39,040
Speaker 4: two goals and then a draw With switzerland At, serbia

1439
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:43,360
Speaker 4: and Then serbia needs win Against switzerland and Then cameron

1440
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 4: loss to get. Through so those three teams are all

1441
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 4: in the. Running cameron's the biggest long shot of them,

1442
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 4: all BUT i actually think that they're worth a bet.

1443
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 4: HERE i think that game is going to be. Bananas

1444
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 4: we've already seen The cameroon is electric going forward and

1445
01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:04,240
Speaker 4: they are not Competent brazil Are, Brazil so like this

1446
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:06,479
Speaker 4: going game could be just like what we saw Against

1447
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 4: serbia three to three and maybe like five to, three

1448
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 4: AND i don't. Know i'm just gonna bet the into

1449
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 4: the narrative That brazil is going not to take, it

1450
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 4: not going to take it all that. Seriously like neymar

1451
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 4: is already. HURT i know they have depth and and

1452
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 4: their team that likes to bring the carnival to every,

1453
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 4: match and they're not gonna they might, not you, know

1454
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 4: step off the gas, pedal but this camera roon team can.

1455
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 4: SCORE i think That I'll i'll back at this number

1456
01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 4: here considering the situation the other, Match i'm going to

1457
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:37,479
Speaker 4: be likely On, switzerland but we'll see where that market. GOES.

1458
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:40,440
Speaker 4: Bj what are your thoughts here on those final two

1459
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 4: group stage?

1460
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 1: Matches?

1461
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:45,400
Speaker 3: Yeah so WHAT i Like, Cameroon, yeah they that was

1462
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 3: a crazy match this, morning BUT i would like you,

1463
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:51,680
Speaker 3: said what really worries me is that they just have

1464
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 3: nothing outside of their, Attackers like their midfield in defense

1465
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 3: is absolutely, dreadful and like we saw Against, switzerland like

1466
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 3: when they're not able to control possession for a majority

1467
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 3: of the, Match like a team that Like, brazil who's

1468
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 3: going to stranglehold that type of possession and be able

1469
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 3: to play right through. Them is that is really concerning to.

1470
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:11,560
Speaker 3: Me but again the game theory says That brazil just

1471
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:13,000
Speaker 3: they just need to.

1472
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 1: Draw and they've won this.

1473
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 3: Group SO i will be passing on that one and THEN,

1474
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 3: i LIKE i do Like switzerland and the other.

1475
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 1: Match John avett at plus one.

1476
01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 3: TEN i think this is just one of those typical we,

1477
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 3: see whether it be tournaments or when we get towards

1478
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 3: the end of a premier league season when teams you,

1479
01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 3: know need not to be relegated or whatever it, is

1480
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:31,959
Speaker 3: where you just see an inflated line on a team

1481
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 3: that needs to win one that necessarily doesn't need.

1482
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:35,800
Speaker 1: To So i'll be On switzerland plus one.

1483
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:38,440
Speaker 3: TEN i, Mean, serbia they've been probably one of the

1484
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:40,880
Speaker 3: worst defenses in this in This World cup field so,

1485
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:45,040
Speaker 3: Far like they've conceded four point seven expected goals through

1486
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:47,680
Speaker 3: their first two, Matches like defense was a big issue

1487
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 3: coming into the, tournament and it's it's shown.

1488
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 1: Through those two.

1489
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 3: Matches so If, switzerland who is very well drilled tactically

1490
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:57,640
Speaker 3: can is perfectly fine playing out of possession, encountering that

1491
01:05:57,720 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 3: really worries.

1492
01:05:58,320 --> 01:05:59,200
Speaker 1: Me IF i want to.

1493
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:01,480
Speaker 3: Back, serbia and if you want to Back, serbia just

1494
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 3: back them to, advance like that's probably the best price

1495
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:05,760
Speaker 3: here to play. Them but, YEAH i will be on

1496
01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 3: The swiss rono bet at plus one, ten But i'm

1497
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:08,840
Speaker 3: going to pass on the other.

1498
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: Match i'm not going to get to Braziled.

1499
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 4: Anthony are you willing to try to Get brazil t?

1500
01:06:14,080 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 4: HERE i, mean, yeah what better way to end the

1501
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 4: group STAGE Bj they're.

1502
01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: Getting A venetius junior hat. Trick, yeah it will be

1503
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:25,560
Speaker 1: this hat.

1504
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 2: TRICK i get Two brazil cash my both teams to

1505
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 2: score cash plus two Because i'm betting. Both i've been

1506
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 2: impressed by the camerony. Inside they've created three expected, goals

1507
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:38,320
Speaker 2: which is more Than switzerland in this, group which is

1508
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,320
Speaker 2: more Than serbia in this, group which is more than

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Speaker 2: the majority of this field has created so, far which

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Speaker 2: is pretty, notable AND i think that they will go for.

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Speaker 2: It they have nothing to lose, whatsoever they have to

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Speaker 2: go out and try to beat the best team in the.

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Speaker 2: World there will probably be the they were probable they

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Speaker 2: will probably after who rock On, England, oh right After,

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Speaker 2: morocco the second best team in the. World but, YEAH

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Speaker 2: i Think cameron is absolutely live. Here you mentioned the

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Speaker 2: runners Like brazil faced two teams who are very, slow

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Speaker 2: pragmatic build up teams who are not going to threaten

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Speaker 2: you with runners in the channels Or payson Behind serbia's

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Speaker 2: across Team Switzer one's a slow build up eventually to

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Speaker 2: Cameroon's a different kind of, challenge AND i think it's

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Speaker 2: a challenge that can get out this. Team So i'm

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Speaker 2: going to take the both teams to score and the

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Speaker 2: plus two on The. Cameroon if it gets to plus

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Speaker 2: one and a, Half i'd probably be more, hesitant but

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Speaker 2: definitely like them. Here all.

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