Episode 884 - It's all over for England
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What happened in England’s World Cup semi‑final against Argentina?
Hello and welcome to a brand new Arsblog Arscast right here on Arsblog.com. How are you? Hope you're well. Thank you very much indeed, as always, for being here. So, after I don't know, a month more or less of football, we now know that the World Cup final will take place between Spain and Argentina. Spain too good for France on Tuesday night. And Argentina, I don't really know if it's right. To say that they were too good for England, as much as England were too bad for England, if that makes sense. I I don't really think what we saw in that second half was commensurate with the kind of quality that England have available to them, but after scoring a goal and going ahead, they just sat back and then handed all the momentum to Argentina.
Who, as we know, do have quality. And when you give them the opportunity to demonstrate that they can hurt you, and they did hurt England last night, but I think England will look back on that second half with with quite a lot of regrets. So we're gonna talk about that game. We're gonna talk about some of the Arsenal players. Obviously, there's a a very worrying development with regards to William Saliba, who who went down in the France game, and they're all All kinds of issues with his back and an injury that might potentially require surgery. So what that means for Arsenal going into the new season. But Kayosaka didn't even feature in a World Cup semi-final, so there's probably a worry there. Declan Rice, the final on Sunday, some of the transfer bits and bobs.
That's what we're getting into today. And with me to do that this morning is Andrew Allen. Good morning, Andrew. Good morning. How are you? I'm very well. Not a great morning. to be an Englishman, although you obviously have the uh the Irish passport in your back pocket, you know, as a kind of failsafe.
Yeah, yeah, and I I I should probably claim my Cypriot one as well at times like these, I think. Um yeah, it was a a a very disappointing night for England, it has to be said. I mean, look, I I I I will recognise that there will be people out there who are far more deeply disappointed by what happened last night than me. But at the same time I I think when you live in y a country your entire life, um, it doesn't really matter kind of exactly where you f you know where you fall on the scale, you you kind of sense the the hangover the morning after. Yeah. Yeah. You could you could see I've already been to the supermarket this morning and there's just a sort of stony look on a lot of people's faces. Not to mention a few hangovers hanging around.
Oh, I can imagine. I can imagine. And it was you know, the I guess the context of it or the way it happened will have uh exacerbated that disappointment. So I mean As a game, I have to say as a as a neutral, right? I was sitting down last night, turning on my TV and looking for a feisty game of football. You know, we know there's uh a lot of history between England and Argentina and When it began I was like, Oh, this could be really really testy because Argentina were I think trying to draw England into a particular kind of game. Uh Diego Simeoni's son was sort of running around like some kind of Tasmanian dust devil on PCP, you know, just trying to get people to react to whatever it was he was doing. There were a lot of niggly fouls, there were a lot of stoppages in the game.
And I think to England's credit, they would have expected that and did not really react to anything that was going on. There was one moment I think when Uh I think Messi might have been fouled. Maybe. in midfield and the referee played on and the Argentinian players were just sort of up in arms. Like, how could you not give us this free kick? And England, you know, sort of played on and carried on. And I think that was obviously the right way to approach that. But as a first half of football it was it was more about the fouls than than goals or goal scoring chances or anything like that.
Yeah, I mean the first ten, fifteen minutes were actually sort of hilarious, weren't they? I mean it was it it was just like a kind of pitch battle everywhere.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened in England’s World Cup semi‑final against Argentina?
0:24–9:51
2
Why did England’s tactical changes after the goal cost them the match?
9:51–19:56
3
How did the performances of Rice, Saka and Saliba affect England’s future?
19:56–27:30
4
What does the interest in Julian Alvarez mean for Arsenal’s transfer strategy?
27:30–36:37
5
How are William Saliba’s injury worries influencing Arsenal’s defensive plans?
36:37–45:14
6
Why is the 30‑minute World Cup halftime show controversial for players and fans?
45:14–54:03
7
What are the expectations for the upcoming final between Spain and Argentina?
54:03–1:03:59
8
How can listeners support the podcast and get tickets to the live Dublin event?
1:03:59–1:11:36