Greg Balloch

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210 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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Halford & Brough in the Morning · Hold Your Head High, Canada · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

I don't know that that's necessarily reflective of the performance they put in as they were chasing it towards the end of the match.

And if you are an XG lover, the expected goals, then you're probably feeling a bit better about it.

But I think it symbolizes deeper rooted problems for this program in terms of the finishing.

I think Jonathan David, obviously he did not have nearly the performance he was hoping for, Canada was hoping for.

And I felt especially bad for him knowing that if he wasn't going to get a goal, which he ultimately doesn't do, the first that Canada takes reflects poorly on him as well.

on the dead ball where is he in the right position?

Does he do enough to try to break up the initial path?

So when you see Jonathan David, who's one of the guys that's plastered across the television sets and the billboards, and he's huffing and puffing to get over and he's late kind of to go down, it felt like all of the air was let out in that moment.

And I think it's obviously unfair to say that they lost on the first goal, but it felt that way in terms of what Canada might've been able to produce on the afternoon and ultimately the

highlighted and magnified a lot of the issues that they had with their finishing, which is probably the biggest non-Alfonso Davies talking point of the tournament.

Yeah, and I think it's beyond just the corner kicks as well.

It's the long throw-ins that they had with Alistair Johnson.

How many of those did you see whipped in?

And Canada was second to just about all of them.

Another, not to continue to junk on the Canadian star, but the Jonathan David free kick from just outside the box.

He's trying to go up and over the wall from 19, maybe 20 yards out.

that's an impossible angle for anyone that close to goal, no matter who you play for and what type of form you're in.

When you're not in good form, it seems pretty audacious to think the best scoring chance Canada was going to have from the match, you hope for more.

And look, a defeat in sports is never on one person or one coach, but

I think part of the frustrations for the Canadian supporters that are really glued in last May, Jesse Marsh hired a set piece specialist.

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