Jonathan Liew
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Podcast Appearances
I don't really know, but I saw highlights of that France game where basically a first-string Columbia gets destroyed by a second-string France.
And it's really clear something's gone quite awry in that team.
They're not taking John Duran.
John Duran, I think, is one of those guys who's really sad.
He's just kind of lost all kind of appetite for the game.
And so they decided they couldn't take him.
They won a training camp in Spain.
They decided they couldn't take him.
And what you have left is a team based around James Rodriguez, who might even retire at the end of this tournament.
He was 34.
And a mixture of, I think, players who are a little bit past their peak, you know, the guys like Yerry Mina and Luis Diaz, who has been brilliant for Bayern.
this season, but is 29 and has played a full club season at high intensity.
It's a team that's low on confidence and maybe not entirely sure of their best starting XI, maybe not even entirely sure what their identity is anymore.
I think for the other two teams in this group, it could be chaos.
I'm really looking forward to this group because I don't think Colombia...
Whoever wins this group gets a lot easier run or draw, basically.
Yeah, people keep moving the goalposts on England, don't they?
You know, 2018, the rap on England is that they always underperform at tournaments.
2018, you've reached the semi-finals.
Oh, but you didn't play anyone.