Tim Vickery

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1,032 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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Indo Sport · World Cup round-up | Awesome Ancelotti, Die Mannschaft denied & Dan's Mexican dispatch · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

in Ancelotti's mind to be option number two.

I was thinking it's going to be Igor Thiago.

It's going to be Igor Thiago because Japan are sitting too deep.

Japan are allowing lots of crosses in.

Just as a by-point on this, I think this is probably the first World Cup where Japan went into the knockout stage to win.

I've always got the impression in previous World Cups that Japan have felt themselves a little bit

a little bit gate-crashing the party in previous knockout stages.

I don't think that's the case anymore.

And I think actually that held them back because I think this Japan side are far, far better chasing the game than they are defending a lead.

And I don't think they defended their lead particularly well.

I think, you know, if you're looking at... Brazil are obviously going to come at you.

They're obviously going to come at you.

But you've got to find a way to get further up the field.

And they let far too many crosses come into their box.

Just as a quick by-point, the last change that the Paraguay coach made against Germany was an effort to get his team higher up the field.

He brought on a centre-forward and a midfielder and came off his brief experiment with three centre-backs exactly because they were calling the Germans too close to their own goal.

Get it higher up the field.

Japan failed to do that.

So I was thinking, right, it's going to be Hugo Thiago.

It's Martinelli.

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