Michael Cox

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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson · Spain set up France semi - can England join them in the last four? · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

So, yeah, I mean, the one weak point I think you say about England's play so far is with the exception of the second half of the Mexico game, the defending hasn't looked that solid.

There have been gaps to exploit.

And against Haaland, I think there's a good chance that, yeah, he will make the play at some point.

Well, there is a bit of a history of England almost being knocked out by goals from Premier League strikers.

I mean, 2018, sorry, 2022, it was Olivier Giroud.

2014, obviously, England went out in the group stage, but I think I'm right in saying the crucial goals were scored by Mario Balotelli and Luis Suarez, who were the two kind of bad boys of English football at that time in various ways.

So, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised.

Norway probably are based a bit too much around Haarlem,

you know, in a one-off game that obviously can pay dividends.

And I think the way that they played in Brazil in the second half, particularly down their left flank, I mean, both of their goals and almost all the good moves came down the left.

That's obviously the question mark for England with, you know, various players have been tried at right back.

So I think this is a tough game for England.

I can imagine England having

A lot of the play, but maybe... Yeah, just maybe conceding goals slightly against the run of play.

I think it's going to be interesting...

You know, Solbak and the Norway manager in his press conference basically said, with this heat, you need to try and keep the ball.

I know it's an obvious thing to say, but I think with these two teams, probably more so than they would against France or Spain or Argentina, where I think they'd be happy to play on the back foot, I think there will be a bit of a battle to keep possession of the ball.

I think England should be able to do that because I think they've probably got better players on the ball.

But the way that Odegaard played against Brazil, where he was playing almost as...

I mean, almost on top of the centre-backs, just playing 50 kind of short sideways passes to put Norway in control.

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