Liam Tharme
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1,662 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Sep
Liam Tharme’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's a head coach answer, is it, at a press conference?
Yeah, there wasn't a big Christian Pulisic-shaped hole in the attack, which is a big compliment.
You can think, I think for any top nation, you take out their best player, they're going to struggle a bit.
And it's how you kind of adapt around that.
I think Balogun played a really important role again and obviously sets up the opening goal, but also that kind of channel running, that kind of wide play, playing kind of a front two with Pepe was, I think...
not quite as effective as they would be with Pulisic there in a number 10 role, but as a good alternative, you know, it worked.
We do have to point out that they scored quite early again, another own goal.
I think they're the first team in World Cup history to have opponents score own goals in two games in a row.
That's a good opt to one.
Feel bad for whoever's had to code that.
That's a lot of work.
They have, they have, from that left-hand side.
But that also helps.
You want to score the first goal.
Generally in tournaments, the team that scores first wins at an even higher rate than in kind of league football.
And I think it will now also be an interesting test against Turkey when the knockout rounds, if the game is 0-0 at halftime or deeper in the game, how they then find solutions where they don't have the lead to kind of sit back on.
The point about players in Europe is a really important one.
Obviously, one is a reflection of their quality, but two, what we've heard from Pochettino and I think a lot of our US writers and colleagues here is that
They didn't have all the players they needed at the right times in the camps.
Players were injured or it wasn't the right time that obviously having to go transatlantic all the time to play a couple games against sometimes low level CONCACAF opposition isn't the perfect prep.
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