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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Don't panic, everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble. England drew a blank, Colombia are through, and Ronaldo's back. It's Wednesday, 24th of June. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Pete Donaldson. And I'm David Cartlidge. Hello everybody, it's the Football Ramble. Here we go. Hey, core blimey. Core blimey. We had a nice time despite the flat performance at 40 Foot Brewery. We did. In North London.
It was such a good hot night. It was.
Hot boys and girls doing hot things. Was it steamy? It was steamy. It was a steamy romp. That's what the tabloids are reporting. Yeah, exactly. We met Prathishan, Vicious Brother, for the first time, which is very exciting. Yeah. inexplicably more broad-shouldered than Vish. Yeah. Round of applause for Vish's mum's birth and canal. Well done.
Well done. Who do you prefer, by the way? You what? Who do you prefer?
Oh, yeah, no, I think the crowd definitely went for P over V. Wow. And that went straight in the family WhatsApp, apparently, so... Good stuff.
Make-a-wish Vish, I think.
Make-a-wish Vish. Somebody put on... Solid. Solid. But great to meet him. Yeah. Newcastle supporter.
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Chapter 2: What were the highlights of the England vs Ghana match?
Evidently not. No. But Ghana have got their second clean sheet. Nobody can score against Kiaros' boys. England nil, Ghana nil. Of course, England remain top of Group L. They'll have to wait until Saturday to confirm their progress. Surely they're going to go through, you would think. But that's not... I mean, you know, nil-nil.
It was ultimately disappointing, Pete Donaldson, after that game against Croatia. We've been here before. We have been here before. And the cry and the plea is don't panic, everybody.
Well, it felt a little bit Andorra in the World Cup qualifiers. It felt a little bit like, well, Kane's going to get us out of this one. And they did on that situation, but they didn't obviously in this match. I mean, this is Carlos Ball, five at the back, molasses thick defending in the box. Ten at the back. But not too shabby on the break in the second half.
No, and they probably would count themselves unlucky not to have had a penalty at the death, so obviously England rode their luck there. But all in all, we're not going to play those teams playing like that in the knockouts, one would suggest. Because we're not going to get there. Because we're not going to get there. But it was broadly fine, if unwatchable.
I find this quite fascinating, David, this idea of, well, actually that team wasn't very good, therefore we couldn't play our game, and therefore we can't play that well against them. I do understand the kind of... I appreciate I'm being a little bit... Tongue in cheek there.
But, I mean, England had 78.8 possession, which is the highest possession presented recorded by any side in a World Cup game since 1966. Sorry, that's just when the records began. I hate saying that, yeah. But without scoring. It was the highest percentage without scoring. I mean, what did you make of the whole grizzly affair, David Carlinger? I wish it was grizzled.
yeah actually we could have done with a bit more there was drizzle but there wasn't any drizzle no drizzle yeah true I'm calm honestly everything that I expected to happen happened look this is this is Kairos' eighth clean sheet in 15 World Cup games yeah it's exactly what he was going to do this is what he does this is why he's brought in by all these nations at World Cup games
to make themselves difficult to beat.
But we knocked six pastors here outside before. Bring back Southgate, David, is what I'm saying.
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Chapter 3: How did the team react to the goalless draw?
You are right to point out the Spain draw against Cape Verde, but the fact is in the last 20...
years or 60 18 years to be precise Spain have won four tournaments you know and France obviously have been two back-to-back World Cups have won one of them you want to be in that position where you kind of go yeah just every game you go into it and you think yeah that's not all we got through or whatever it wasn't a loss I mean you say England did ride their luck on a couple of moments which we'll come to in a minute
But it is a coming back down to earth. And as I say, if all works out okay, we'll be fine. I mean, it's interesting what Anthony Barry said at halftime. He said Ghana were playing a lot deeper than they thought they would. But of course, I think that was maybe sort of underestimated because again, you talk about Carlos Quiroz. You're absolutely right to say that. But Ghana have...
Well, they now got four points. They'd already got three points in the bag. So there was no onus for Ghana to go and win this game. And they knew that if we keep it tight, actually, this is one of the little problems of what Tuca wants to do, like play like a Premier League side. Well, Premier League sides, that type of football, and I agree with Tuchel's approach, by the way.
I think, you know, it worked in that second half against Croatia. And I think that's probably what you should do. But when you come up against a team like this, England often lack a little bit of creativity and ingenuity. Now, they should be used to this because this is, by and large, what happens through the qualifying groups. But of course, you know, Ghana aren't a bad side.
And when it comes to the tournament, things can be a little bit different. But I was slightly surprised with what Barry said there. But England, I think it was all about, let's be patient, let's be patient. Fine. But at some point, you've got to ramp it up a little bit. And Tuchel was doing his nutting on the sideline.
And I think there was a little bit of lack of urgency, a little bit of lack of something. And ultimately, England... got it in the last sort of five, ten minutes, but it was too little too late by them.
I don't know who was in that team to up the tempo. The midfielders don't fizz the ball about. I think they're very patient in the way they play. The two wingers, their first thought is to slow the game down, or their first natural way to go about things is to turn back. You know, the number of times Gordon cut inside, the number of times Madaweke wrong decision with his passing and such.
That slows play down. That allows a team to just set in a little bit deeper and say, oh, right, we're okay. We've got our shape here. We're fine here. So you did need somebody to just have a little bit of a drive. That probably is why I think Rashford and Saka are walking at the team next. They're more direct.
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Chapter 4: What tactical challenges did England face against Ghana?
So he had a little bit more recovery pace because they knew that Garner would probably try and hit England on the break. Fine, I thought as well he might think at some point, because of his lack of options at full-back, which maybe as the tournament progresses, should England progress into the tournament, that could bite him on the arse a bit. But anyway, we'll see.
But with Spencer, I thought to myself also... He will need Spence at some point. Let's not put Spence in for the first time in a knockout game. Get some minutes and all that kind of thing. But yeah, there were flashbacks to the Euros, you know, with a right footer at left back and bloody, bloody blah. But I think... Yeah, I agree with you with Rashford.
Obviously, when he comes on, the Ghanaian defenders are a bit more tired, so maybe there's a tiny bit more room. But, you know, even putting balls into the box where it came to it, it was like, right, you just need to do that. But one thing, though, you have to say, Ghana defended superbly well. They went about their task.
I mean, Jude Bellingham was given, as it's called, superior player of the match, which does sound... superior player of the match. It does sound quite high and mighty. But Bellingham immediately said he didn't deserve it. And he said that he should have gone to one of their lads who defended so well, which I thought was a nice touch from Bellingham. And I agree with him.
But one of the things that Garner did was completely nullified Harry Kane. This idea, you know, and it was funny on the BBC, you had Ellen White saying, oh, Kane, you know, he should have been in the box more in between the two centre-halves and so on. I'm like... Yeah, I suppose in that game, he sort of tried to do that. But that's the same chat we've been having in previous tournaments.
Kane doesn't want to do that. The problem was for Kane is that if he was to drop deep, it wasn't like the Croatia game. It's kind of like, well, what's the point of that? Because you've got so much time on the ball. 78.8 possession England had. So the midfielders, even the centre-halves, had tons of time on the ball.
So they completely nullified that whole business of Kane roaming around and doing his thing. And they did it pretty well. And as you say, with the wingers and so on, completely snuffed out.
They basically said, you're going to have to do something pretty special, which England evidently didn't have on the day, or we're going to make a mistake, which Ghana didn't because they stuck to their jobs and they were brilliant at the back. And the keeper caught everything. He did absolutely everything he needed to do. So credit where credit's due. And that kind of performance can happen.
You can look at some of the bigger teams. Spain versus Cape Verde is the obvious one. But France have played a different profile of side. Senegal, as we say, are going to try and win the game. Even Iraq, there were mistakes there, but they needed something out of the game. So it's an odd one. England end up getting a point. I don't think it's a disaster. But David, it does...
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Chapter 5: How did England's possession statistics impact the game?
England are back. And it's that feeling that we just don't bloody want.
Of course it isn't. I'm honestly finding it hard to get too upset about this. Yeah, sure. Seriously. This has happened before with us in the second game as well. I still think there's a lot of positives there. The vibes are still pretty high as well.
come on like I'm not I when I was a kid I used to get absolutely raging after games like this honestly and throw it oh why isn't he there what's he doing there but like just calm and I tell you what the way that it's all set up as well there's very little jeopardy in here look it's a learning experience it's a learning curve it's important to top the group though Of course.
They still can top the group. They play in the worst team who are already out in the final group game. We win that, then everything's fine.
Yeah. Who have been better than you expect, but there's still no garner. Yeah. You sort of look at it and sort of go, well, they're not having a... I almost sort of think that England just need to get the ball and just whack it at the goal first couple of minutes. Because it was not a shot on target until the 57th minute. I think that was the thing that made it so fucking depressing.
If it was depressing. Just have a crack on goal just to sort of get things started. You know what I mean? Just remind people what we're here for. It was a very cagey performance. But the most annoying thing for me is that at the England watch-along, We had a trumpet player ready to go at full time.
Do you remember?
I was chatting to one of our listeners who had brought his trumpet. He offered his services as a full-time trumpeter. Yeah, listen to Greg. Listen to Greg. And I was gutted that we couldn't get him trumpeting away at full time.
He had a little blow at halftime.
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Chapter 6: What were the key performances from individual players?
With James Rodriguez, again, just the way his career's gone and he's had... I mean, he's played for an extraordinary amount of top clubs, but the way it's gone, he might have thought, am I going to be struggling to make a big impact at this World Cup? Well, I'll tell you what, the coach has been...
been setting it up as you say in favour of him he's getting a tune yeah it was Colombia were almost in a bit of a Neymar situation I think with James Rodriguez I think a lot of people in Colombia were kind of like oh maybe we love him thank you you were brilliant a few years ago we'll never forget those goals how great that was but maybe it's time to kind of move on but look he's playing a very key role and those around him also stepping up Daniel Muniz obviously you know Premier League fans know how brilliant he's been at Crystal Palace but those little like
gallops behind the fullback. He's ghosting in every time. He's brilliant.
I mean, Munoz, he is magnificent. Oh, what a player. Like, I mean, really tasty. Like, as you say, it's such a weapon they have. You know he's going to do it. But the problem is, is like when you've got Diaz on the other side and everyone's kind of coming together and there's a bit of a swarm and, oh, you've got to watch out for Rodriguez. Oh, Munoz is in again. He's ghosted in.
You know, he might have had a hat trick on another day. You know, there was one where he probably should have done a bit better where it came off the post. But yeah, like he, he is, he's such a handy player for them. He is the archetypal player where modern clubs in the modern game, they love it when you have a guy who's a fullback, although really a wingback.
It's almost a bit like you hark back to when Danny Alves was doing that for Barcelona or Maicon, you know, it was quite a South American Brazilian thing. And Spain used Javi Alves really well as well to get him behind as well. Yeah, Kukere does it. It's like you almost, it frees up the winger in front of them so much because they just have that one side and they just absolutely dominate it.
He's a standout footballer in the Premier League this season.
Yeah, definitely. He isn't lucky to get that injury, but I'm just really pleased to see him.
And maybe England could do something similar with Lewis. Oh yeah, I forgot.
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