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Chapter 1: What were the highlights of England's 4-2 victory over Croatia?
Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Fozcast.
This is the football film. We are live from New York in this beautiful studio in the Spotify studios in the World Trade Center. England has just pummeled Croatia at 4-2. Go on, the boys. It's coming home. Simple as that. Top of the group. We're pretty much qualified.
Chapter 2: How did Harry Kane perform in the match against Croatia?
I'm sat alongside Ben Tozer, the legend, Tom Ochoa, my good mate. Yeah, you're a legend as well, mate. Right, boys, we're happy with that, aren't we? Yeah, we are. Is there some bad parts of that?
You two are going to pick parts in it. You know, pick it apart a little bit.
But I won't pick it apart. I'm happy, right? I would much rather see England win 4-2 than see them win 1-0 or 2-0.
Chapter 3: What role did Jude Bellingham play in England's success?
I'll take a 2-0. I'd prefer a 2-0. There are some concerns, aren't there? The goals, the manner in which we consider the goals. Yes, there are, for sure. But I think they come from us actually really trying to be attacking for once. I was expecting this. Honestly, I had this down as a one-all draw today.
I thought it'd be a little bit drab, a little bit nervy, us just waiting to hope somebody does something magical, Harry Kane moment or something. But in fairness to the boys, we could have won that 8-2.
Chapter 4: What were the standout moments from the World Cup so far?
We responded well. I think when the kind of equalising goals came in, we responded well, didn't we?
We did indeed.
That's the main thing. But I've got to ask you off the bat, who your man of the match is? Probably Ellie Anderson. Probably Elliot Anderson.
Exactly, I was in agreement. So we didn't discuss this, so that's a hat trick. So at the start of the game, the way he was tracking runners when Konza was going in to be really front foot of the defender and he was tracking him behind, it just looked brilliant.
Chapter 5: How did the England squad's dynamics impact their performance?
He was so assured in everything he did the whole game.
I was not disappointed. I thought, and you know what? I think we've got a little bit of a clunder in our hands, right? Because we started the game with Madaweki and Gordon, okay? And when Saka and Rashford comes on, My gosh, do we look like we're an absolute problem, don't we?
However, this is the conundrum, because if we started with Saka and Rashford, when Croatia are fit, the opposition are fit, they're not at their most lethal. You bring them on with 10, 15 minutes to go, when the opposition are tired, oh my God, it's like, boys, fill your boots.
Yeah, how dynamic we were at the start of the game.
Chapter 6: What controversies arose regarding player selections and tactics?
The boys just running and running and running. Even the amount of work that Gordon did out of possession when he was just handing the keeper, doing so much of the dirty work. And obviously, Madawaki as well, every time we got the ball, he was really positive, always trying to get out the defender. It was brilliant. But when them two boys come on, the quality, you saw it with the goal.
Saka, nicking that ball, rolling inside, the weight of the pass. No disrespect, but Madawaki probably doesn't play that pass as well to Gordon. And Gordon maybe doesn't finish it as well as Rashford did.
So what would you say for the second group stage game, do you think Tuchel will start with Gordon? I think we're in a very lucky position.
Chapter 7: How do the hosts assess Trent Alexander-Arnold's situation with Tuchel?
I'm actually really happy with the position that we're in because we've got the next two games to really experiment with it because I don't know what the best option is because I like the fact that Madaweke and Gordon are animals and they're fit as a fiddle. They might not have the end product that Rashford and Saka have got, but they are, I would say, what, fitter? No, more willing.
Yeah.
More willing to do the run-in, right? And tire the opposition out.
And we probably want that because obviously the second, third game, this was indoors with the air-con, all that jazz. But obviously we're going to be hot. Hot, hot. The next two games are going to be hot, hot.
Chapter 8: What predictions do the hosts make for England's future matches?
Hot, hot. So I think he will utilise the subs with those wide areas, won't he? We're going to have to.
But we have got six days until the next game. And let's be honest, we can't take our foot off the gas. We've got to go and go and go again.
We have to. I would have liked to have seen Rhys James and Harry Kane off of the pitch, by the way. A lot. Well, not at full time. Yeah. Well, when they came off the pitch, I'd have rather seen them come off when we scored that fourth goal, yeah? Because Harry Kane's cleared one at the last minute there, hasn't he? And then he's grabbing his car straight away.
That's how easy it can happen as well.
And fair to say, they're probably the two hardest players to replace. Rhys James, if he goes off right back, I know Jed Spencer's come on, he's actually done really well in the attacking sense. But defensively, we haven't obviously seen him really get nullified yet. So, I mean, for me, Rhys James is probably up there with Harry Kane as how crucial
they're going to be, you know, if we talk about some moments in the game, then big moments.
Yes. Yeah, I think so. I mean, the pen, we've got we've got to talk about the pen. Obviously, when the kind of retake was a war. So first of all, it's a pen. We all agreed. Well, to start with, we were like, Oh, that looks Very close. Obviously, then we got the... So we're talking about the first attempt.
Oh, you mean the retake. So we're talking about Harry Kane's actual first attempt at trying to score a penalty, which I'm betting my house on normally, right? And then I had a massive moan up at this, actually, didn't I? I was like a little baby sat here, right? Because we've just watched the Champions League final where Arsenal, the two penalties they miss, yeah, are ones they stutter and...
Basically, when you're stuttering as a striker, the goalie knows you're stuttering and you go, all right, cool, I'm just going to wait and watch her then. I'm going to wait and watch her because it's going to be really hard to get the ball right in the corner. Harry Kane is best at taking penalties where he runs up and he just nails it in the corner. He munts it.
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