Tim Spiers

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2,293 appearances 13 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6 Sep

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Why are England struggling to convince? · 28 Jun 2026 podcast

But I think they've looked like one of the most sort of complete teams, as it were.

Obviously, Messi's scoring is a ridiculous number of goals, but they do look like they can control the game.

You know, I think we've seen with other teams sort of lacking the ability to sort of set the tempo and set the pace.

And you'd expect this from, you know,

The reigning champions, but also two-time Copa America winners in the last few years, they know how to grind out results and win tournaments.

So we haven't seen anything to disprove that yet, that they deserve to be one of the favourites.

And their draw is astonishingly favourable.

You know, they get Australia or Egypt in the last 16.

And then the quarterfinal is going to be against either Colombia or Ghana or Switzerland or Algeria.

Now, that is a route that you would like to the semis.

So maybe, Adam, in answer to your question, we won't know for a few weeks yet just how good they are.

against Panama because yeah I feel like that's a game where you may feel like the favorites but it can easily change once the whistle's blown I was working on the game last night and um I have to say whistle was the standout I mean I was kind of wrote last night who is who is this whistle guy you know Newcastle fans won't recognize him he scored one in 19 last season

Not only has he scored three so far, the same as Harry Kane, but he looks like a man possessed.

I mean, he took his second goal fantastically well.

And I think what you'd say about Diakongo is they've shown a real couple of sides to their sort of armoury so far.

The way that they defended against Portugal, I mean, Portugal didn't have a shot for about an hour during that match after they took the lead.

and they were against Uzbekistan you know they fell behind early on but they didn't panic they did actually equalize on sort of 18 minutes but one of the worst VAR decisions of the whole tournament stops that goal being allowed but they didn't panic and they can create chances they have got pace there are definitely ways that they can trouble England

Yes, Sasa Kolajic bookended the group stage perfectly because Raul Jimenez sort of opened it, another Wolves striker, Adam.

Thank you for saying that.

And yes, Sasa Kolajic with a 96-minute equaliser, I think it was pretty much the last kick of the whole game.

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