Happy hosts as Canada claim first win and Mexico seal knockout spot – World Cup Daily
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Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly. Canada bat a nine-man Qatar 6-0, a hat-trick for Jonathan David, the first for a CONCACAF player in almost a century. A massive result for the dancing Jesse Marsh and a brilliant chance to top the group and stay in Canada for the start of the knockouts. Before that, the Swiss must have thought they were in pole position to win the group after putting four past the Bosnians in a game that didn't happen until the last quarter. In Group A, Mexico-South Korea looked the best game on paper. A big mistake by the Korean keeper gave Mexico the points. It got pretty tense in the end. The Koreans really going for it, but couldn't find a way through. And hosts doing well and staying home makes for a good tournament.
So perhaps a good day for the neutrals. Also in this group... South Africa equalised late on against Czechia with one of those handballs. There's Colombia's win over Uzbekistan from last night. We'll look ahead to tomorrow's Scotland-Morocco and the bizarre needle match between the US and the Socceroos.
What was the significance of Canada's 6-0 win over Qatar?
Two cool moving cameramen. I'll try and tell everyone the correct date for the London live show. And we've had more correspondence on one subject than anything else so far. Stop laughing, Barry. We'll save that for part three. As always, we'll answer your questions. And that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. On the panel today, with me in LA, Barry Glendening, welcome. Do you want to skip straight to part three? I think most listeners do, but no, I don't. Also here with us, Ben Fisher, hello. Hey, Max. And through the night, she's been awake watching all these games. Thank you for that. Nikki Bandini, hello.
Hey, Max.
Let's start then in Group B with Canada's 6-0 win over Qatar in Vancouver. First time Canada scored more than once in a game at the World Cup. Equal biggest margin of victory by a host in a World Cup ever. And it was as comprehensive as it gets, Baz.
Yep. It was a brilliant performance by Canada. Obviously, you can only beat what's in front of you. And what was in front of them was a team of 11 players who were playing really badly. That was then reduced to 10 players and then reduced to nine and they got progressively worse. The win for Canada featuring a hat-trick by Jonathan David, and hats off to him, will obviously be overshadowed by the broken leg suffered by Ismail Kone. Quite gruesome looking tackle by Asim Madibo. who he was genuinely contrite afterwards, and I believe he went into the dressing room after the game and apologised profusely. But that's Ismail Kone's World Cup over, obviously. He's a key player for Canada. A really, really emphatic win by them.
Hat-trick, a goal scored by Nathan Saliba, Kyle Lahren scored.
uh one as well and then a comedy on goal uh to just add Qatar as well but a dismal performance by Qatar but uh Canada were super impressive yeah makes you wonder how Qatar drew with Switzerland in their opening game as we mentioned Ben like in the intro like it it's good for a tournament if the hosts do well right and so if Canada you know they could well win this group it's not done yet but if they do that then they stay at home and these things are great for the momentum of the tournament
Yeah, this was massive for them. Obviously, they got underway in Toronto, a bit of lingering frustration, you know, only a draw in that game, but lots of positive signs. And this for Jesse Marsh in Canada just feels, yeah, just huge. I mean, as you say, now that the team camp is in Vancouver, this game obviously in Vancouver, the next game is there. and like there's a lot of home comforts to be had and for marsh in terms of the selection it feels like he just got that so right he put larin this time up front with jonathan david uh larin didn't start the the bosnia game was not happy about it but obviously came on and got the goal and in that game jonathan david was brought off on the hour and people were like oh what's he doing kind of thing but you know this was quite the riposte so yeah just perfect um day and result for canada
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