Jonathan Wilson

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Football Weekly · O Canada! The knockouts begin with a win for Marsch’s men: World Cup Daily · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

I mean, they finished top of South American qualifying, so I don't think anybody thought they were terrible.

I think you look at that side and you'd say, I think the problem a lot of champions have is they stick with their champions for too long.

And there has been that run of champions going out in the group stage.

I mean, obviously it didn't apply to France last time, but the three tournaments before that, was it, that happened?

Mm-hmm.

And I think there was maybe a bit of a concern that would be true of Argentina.

I think it was entirely legitimate to wonder whether Messi doing it in MLS was the same as being able to do it in the World Cup.

So, I mean, there were doubts.

But I'm not sure they've entirely been answered by beating Algeria and Jordan and a slightly patchy win over Austria where they've got quite a lot of decisions seem to go their way.

So they've now got a really easy run as well, haven't they?

They've got Cap Verde and then the winner of Australia against Egypt, which, I mean, is obviously... Certainly once you get to the last 16, there's no easy games in the World Cup, but still, some are easier than others.

And I'd say of the...

Of the sort of five or six probable contenders, they probably have the simplest run to the semi-final.

Yeah.

Messi again, Mark?

Yeah, and I'm very lucky that I'm going to it.

uh so yeah really looking forward to that slightly annoyed that my flight from houston to dallas means i will miss the bulk of the uh netherlands morocco game but i'd say those two are the they're they're the two the two standout games from from this round i've now lost all confidence in my capacity to understand carl angelotti sides because they seem to operate to a different logic to everybody else so they can play quite badly and then somebody normally vinicius does something amazing

Japan, I've seen twice.

I think they're really good.

I think if Kubo is back, which supposedly he should be, that'll give them a bit of creativity that maybe they lacked in that final group game.

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