Archie Thompson

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343 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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SEN Breakfast · Archie Thompson, Spain progress to the WC Final! (15.07.26) · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

These guys are playing at Barcelona.

You know, at 19, they're kids' heroes already.

So I think they've got some exciting players all over the park.

But as far as a brand or philosophy of football, passing has always been something that's high on demand.

Look, I think it was a bit of both.

I have to say, like, this performance from... And you have to say that large parts of the reason why is because of the way Spain played.

But then I would even say on performance-wise, this was probably one of the lacklustre performances of Spain in this whole World Cup.

And that's why everyone had them as favourites going through to a World Cup final, because the way they attacked...

But, you know, sometimes, you know, with sport, you can prepare unbelievable.

You can have incredible games leading up to a final or semifinal and then just fall a little bit short because maybe the team that you're playing against is just clinical in all areas.

And it's just not happening up front, which it didn't for them.

I just thought they just...

And these are league players.

And for me, they just had an off day.

And you can have off days.

Unfortunately, it happened in the semifinal.

Oh, this is a tough one, to be honest.

Because Argentina, we were talking about it this morning on SEN.

Argentina have been one of those teams in the last couple of games.

It's almost been moments.

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