Ben Whittaker
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3,043 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jul
Ben Whittaker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That is brilliant football.
I think there's two things that I saw in the last half now.
Because I think the first 60 minutes, to be fair, were 1-0 up.
And I think we're pretty much doing a decent job.
It's a struggle of a game.
It's a World Cup semi-final.
The minute we scored that first goal...
we started to sag into our own box and drop narrow and drop deep.
The second that we saw that, the likes of Pickford, who've been here before and seen that before against Italy in a Wembley Euros final, the likes of John Stones, the likes of Harry Kane, the likes of Thomas Tuchel, who've seen these games before, they have to push out five to ten yards.
And the midfield players, Anderson and Rice, have got to get out five to ten yards.
So you're blaming the players?
So I'm saying that...
you know I'm not blaming them righty because I did it in games where we lost tournaments and semi-finals and quarter-finals I've been there where they were but we've had so many of these lessons I've said it to you so many times we drop deep for no reason we weren't dropping that deep before that goal we score and this is before Messi started coming out to the right hand side because that's the second bit I'll come on to the first bit was before even Messi started coming out to the right hand side we dropped deep
The mistake I think he then made was that he went 5-3-2, which meant our midfield three, Messi then saw the space in these pockets.
That was negative.
So that was negative.
And I think that's where he got it wrong.
And Messi started to drop out here.
He then corrected it by putting a four in midfield with Nico O'Reilly on the left.
And for some reason, he didn't just go and say to Nico O'Reilly, I don't care whoever else is inside you.
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