Mark Langdon

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Football Weekly · World Cup 2026 preview: Groups A-D – Football Weekly · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

From there, who knows, maybe even one of them gets to the quarterfinals.

I think that home advantage has potentially been slightly underrated.

I just think that it is going to be a very foreign tournament for a lot of teams.

Yeah, very surprised that they came through those playoffs, first of all.

I expected them to lose to Wales in Cardiff, and Italy shot themselves in the foot as well with the red card.

But actually, Bosnia were playing well even before that.

There's a teenager, I hope I pronounce his name correctly, Kerim,

um ala begovich um plays for salzburg who definitely caught the eye um in in those playoff matches there's quite a bit of hype around him um as somebody that can maybe add that dynamism because when you play somebody like gecko up front um he he's got many qualities but he's not going to be running in behind and you need other players to do a fair bit of

Dzeko is running particularly in the conditions that they're going to face so he might be somebody that kind of emerges out of this tournament and gets that move from Austria and we know that RB Salzburg is a bit of a talent farm anyway and kind of a lot of players do start there and then go on and kind of make their market in bigger leagues.

I think when you pick a 26 player squad, it used to be 23, didn't it?

Now you're up to 26.

I think you can take one or two gambles.

And the Neymar one, I think Ancelotti thought, if I don't pick him, every single question at the press conference will be, why is Neymar not there?

Why is Neymar not there?

So if you just have him, you know, he doesn't even need to play.

And I think you kind of just calm that noise.

I think Ancelotti's got the potential to be a very clever and perfect international manager because he's not wedded to a system.

He doesn't really have like a footballing philosophy or beliefs.

And I think that that helps when you're an international manager because you just don't have the players for long enough.

So put them in positions where they can succeed and make them feel comfortable.

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