Jay Harris

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Spain stunned + inside England's preparations · 16 Jun 2026 podcast

Not very expectant.

I think the key difference compared to, as I mentioned before, my generation growing up and sort of seeing England repeatedly get knocked out of the quarterfinal stage by Brazil or Portugal or whoever, is a sense that...

Lots of these players have now been in multiple Euros finals or have got to the semi-final of a World Cup.

And I think that sort of now is an experience that you need when you get to the latter stages of a World Cup.

We didn't have previously and we have now.

But anything can happen at a World Cup.

I think every single team at this tournament has very obvious weaknesses.

There's no sort of perfect squad.

It wasn't like Spain in an away kit.

Oh, James Rodriguez.

Well, I think like Critch has said, the question mark is about where he spent the last couple of years of his career in the MLS and suddenly sort of, can he suddenly resummon the same level of performances in an international tournament?

We should say that he's absolutely bossing it in MLS.

He's still one of the best players in that competition.

I don't think that's a huge surprise, but

It's definitely different doing it at a World Cup.

He doesn't actually play for Argentina that much these days.

And I think there was a question mark about, I'm certain everybody thought that he was going to play at this World Cup, but it wasn't really confirmed until quite late on.

I think the key thing with Argentina, which Critch sort of mentioned, is the way under Lionel Scaloni, that whole team was engineered to sort of cover Messi's weaknesses completely.

out of possession.

So he could sort of do whatever he wanted and the rest of the team would sort of do his dirty work.

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