Colin Millar

Felipe, you've already thrown us curveball by pitching Mexico as the most likely of the host nations.

Who else do you think is going to be causing an upset at this World Cup?

You did a lovely piece with him after his move in February to Minnesota.

He was essentially out of work before that.

Another name who I think you're quite excited about is Juan Fernando Quintero.

Why is that?

I love him.

It sounds like they're going to be a lot more fun to watch than, say, Ecuador.

Colin, did you have a point you wanted to make about the Ecuador team?

Okay.

In which case, what do you think about Norway, who a lot of people are...

are mentioning as potential dark horses, not least because of the presence of Erling Haaland in their ranks.

Well, they're in this group with France, Senegal and Iraq.

And we mentioned Senegal's prospects and in the previous show, France.

But that is a tough, tough group.

Another interesting group is the one that features Netherlands, Sweden, Tunisia and Japan.

JJ, I know that

The Japanese side is one that you think could be springing a few surprises, if indeed they even rank as surprises after the kind of performances they put in last time in Qatar.

Japan famously finished on top of a group which included both Spain and Germany, eventually going out to Croatia on penalties.

Since then, they actually roared through their qualifying process.