Nick Ames
speaker
377 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Nick Ames’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So should that be a howdy?
Yeah, it was a fantastic second half performance.
I think a lot of the players talking after the game have, I think, paid tribute to Tuchel's halftime team talk.
I gather Anthony Barry came on at halftime on the TV at home and was being quite honest about the pitfalls of the game.
first half performance.
And really, they really cut loose.
They look like men possess, committing men forward, moving the ball quickly against a Croatia defence that was there to be got at.
I watched them play a friendly against Slovenia in Croatia about 10 days ago and have to say that they look quite porous there.
So I've been really keen to see England really go on the front four throttle at them.
And to be fair, they did.
And there was only a little spell, maybe around 10, 20 minutes to go, where you felt they were dropping off a bit, picked and made a save or two.
But ultimately, the game was made safe.
I think they were ruthless when they had to be.
And you can quibble about the goals, which were great, great efforts by Croatia, to be fair.
I think for an opening day's work at a World Cup, you can't ask for a lot more than a performance that was genuinely fun.
Because how often do we see that?
Yeah, you haven't tended to see those concerted spells of pressure where balls are fizzing across the box and then they're regaining it and piling men forwards again.
But there was that spell where the goalkeeper, Levakovic, resembled an octopus, didn't he?
He was here, there and everywhere across goal.
And it's nice to see.
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