Tim Vickery
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92 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Aug
Tim Vickery’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And if you look at the England bench, it's just full of potential outballs.
Argentina at that point had both centre-backs on a yellow card and they sacrificed Paredes, the holding midfielder, to bring on Nico Gonzalez and stretch England to Argentina's left, England's right, which is what I think...
tucco was trying to counter with the first substitution concert for gordon but i put on twitter at the time i don't understand this substitution okay gonzalez is going to stretch you and he's going to cause problems but he's not he's not de maria and uh very soon gonzalez is playing it left back because they take taliafico off as well and and then all right he's going to come but there's all that space behind him and uh
Even in the first half, I thought England broadly controlled what was an extremely scrappy first half.
Even in the first half, you can see that there's a bit of panic stations in the Argentina defence when England are running at them.
And imagine unleashing, for example, if Saka's not fully fit, but imagine unleashing Madueke.
then in that space that Argentina have to leave because Gonzalez has come up.
And what we so badly, I say we, what England so badly needed was the outball.
And there were lots of options to provide that outball.
But on and on and on come more defenders and the team ends up hanging off its own crossbar like a collection of bats.
And effectively, they're not defending because they're not defending
They're not getting out to defend the shots.
And Enzo Fernandes had a number of attempts at target practice before he found his range.
And they're not stopping the cross coming in.
And that's always the best way to defend against crosses, to stop it coming in.
So I was baffled by the whole thing.
Yeah, and this is the big triumph of these extraordinary eight years under the command of Lionel Scaloni, who, let's remember, had never coached a senior side before.
And I remember when he was appointed.
Firstly, he was a caretaker.
And the line was, I remember Matt Adonis saying, well, he's a nice lad, this Scaloni, but, you know, you wouldn't trust him to direct traffic.
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