Rory Smith
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The Anfield Wrap · The World Cup, Wirtz & On This Day | The Breakfast Wrap: LIVE · 9 Jun 2026
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We are looking for the team that can outlast the others.
That's the crucial thing.
Apparently there's a lot of smart money on the Dutch.
I don't quite know why.
But that is the kind of where the bookies, by all accounts, are looking for value or whatever bookies look for, I don't know.
Because obviously you look at France and their squad's mad.
I think then you have like Spain, who look great, but are knackered.
England, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, maybe the next level down.
But by all accounts, the Dutch are the...
are the ones that they think might have the right balance.
I think Portugal are quite good, despite the fella up front.
I think Portugal have got a ton of balance once you get the fella up front out the way.
He's the issue, but even if he's just standing around, I think Portugal look like an amazing side.
I think the one thing that in terms of like the 48 team expansion, the expansion pack for the FIFA World Cup, I think that extra knockout round will be really good.
In the same way as we talked about this before, like as a new format of the Champions League, not a fundamentalist, but like open-minded sort of semi-convert.
Is it Phil who's really big on people keep saying that like making the knockout round, they equate making the punishment round of the new Champions League with making the last 16 last time, but they're not the same thing.
Like the teams that go out in that round of 32 playoff thing, they have not made the last 16 in the same way as they would have done five years ago.
With this one, it's like everyone's saying, oh, you know, you've got all these games just to knock out.
The group stage only knocked out four teams or whatever.
But you think, yeah, but after that, you then get a knockout round where all of the favourites have to play and they'll be playing decent teams in most cases.
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