Nicky Bandini

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1,942 appearances 16 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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Football Weekly · It’s time to write off the Germans and Brazil battle past Japan – World Cup Daily · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

He suddenly is just moving at a different speed to everyone else on the pitch.

And like Barry said, the setup on the goal, it almost feels like something between a footballing miracle and something out of a cartoon.

Like his body's all over the place, but somehow he's still angled one foot to kick the ball to where it needs to be for Gakpo to score.

So I think if you've got

incredible, rapid players like that playing to their strengths and inviting a team onto you can be a perfectly valid way of approaching a game.

And I think Morocco absolutely deserved to go through.

But if the Netherlands had gone through, I wouldn't have been looking at them as a team that was going out in the next round either.

I think they looked like a team that could hurt you on the counter and that could do things.

And I think that was what made this the most compelling game of the knockout so far, is I thought both of these teams...

Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, Max.

In a completely different way, it was another really good goal, wasn't it?

I mean, the cross is perfect.

Diop gets up so well.

I do think it was one of those tiny little glimpses of what a lot of us have known for a while, that Van Dijk is not quite Van Dijk of football.

a couple of years ago it could have been closer on the marking but yeah they've got so many ways to get at you um they've got so much momentum going forward with those fullbacks that get up they've got so much um power and speed out wide i think they're a they're a really strong team and it's hard to escape the conclusion now they have got through this one when you look at the draw that they're on course for another collision with france who knocked them out in the semifinals last time i think it would be the quarterfinals they'd meet this time around and

looking at the other teams that they each have to get through, I think that seems very likely to be what's going to happen.

Both get that narrative and can't run away from it too far because I feel like I've also fuelled it myself sometimes.

But I also think it's overplayed.

I sometimes feel like...

the English media almost portrays Ancelotti as this something almost accidental.

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