Jonathan Wilson
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Podcast Appearances
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Well, the hearts of the nation who aren't being paid to go to a football tournament bleed for you, Wilson.
But we'll start with you because you were at the Azteca for the opening game, Mexico 2, South Africa 0.
What did you make of it?
Yeah.
So as I said in the intro, it wasn't hard to gauge how good Mexico are.
But the Raul Jimenez header is, I guess, the moment of that game.
You know, his tears.
It's a classic Jimenez goal.
His first ever one in the World Cup.
It was a really, that was a beautiful moment.
Sort of a moment if you're waiting for a moment in this competition to go, OK, we like football and this is good.
Jeff, I presume you've seen more of Mexico than most of us.
What did you make of their showing?
you know I would imagine they'll take quite a bit of confidence from from this performance and they'll feel like they can really control their group that appears to be pretty wide open three red cards Barry in 2018 Daniel story writing 2018 and 2022 World Cups combined there were three straight red cards we've just had three in the space of 43 minutes
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