INSIDE THE ODDS: England CRASH out of WC | Argentina set to face Spain in Meadowlands showdown | OTB
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Alright, Maggie Thatcher, Keir Starmer, Harry Kane, Thomas Tuchel, your boys took one hell of a beating last night. And England are going home, and not the football. Welcome to another episode of Inside the Odds, joined by Matthew Brennan and Phil Egan. How are we lads?
Alright.
Alright, yeah. Happy out. Did we enjoy the game last night, England-Argentina, first and foremost?
Yeah, it was a clash alright, wasn't it? It was one of them, the first... I see a lot of people saying the first 30 minutes I think I'd give it the full first half was a battle a lot of kicking not a lot of buckings which you know you can take that whatever way you like but no it turned out to be a good one alright the result was favourable I will say
the referee did let it flow but I suppose the because the game had such tension that's why it made it so entertaining you couldn't take your eyes off it no like the first half you couldn't watch that every game no because of the nature of the rivalry what's at stake you know I could appreciate the first half where I was like you know there's late hits going in niggly stuff and you're kind of thinking yeah This is setting it up beautiful for a second half. And a lot of people felt before the game this probably would go the distance. Obviously, it didn't. But it kind of just had that feel about it where I was happy enough to... Very little football played in the first half, but I enjoyed it.
Yeah, I think... flashed up at half time I think England did England have an XG of England had 0.03 Ireland had 0.04 05 or 40 had a 4 maybe BBC had a 0.05 but yeah it's the lowest in history of the old XG stats yeah At halftime, did we think England or Argentina were going to win? Oh, that's a great question.
Well, I would have felt first goal was crucial for England.
Yeah.
So when they got the first goal, I thought, this is set up perfect for them. They have their goal. And they also have players that can play in the break, which Argentina don't like. As we saw with Romero's yellow card for the pulling back due to Bellingham. Yeah, you know, there was options on the bench, obviously. One of the big calls is Rodgers on the right. He sets up Anthony Gordon. Thomas Tuchel looks like he's got that right then. And Jed Spence is a left back. That's all working well. And then it all just went downhill. I would say... I don't think it all went downhill straight after the goal because there was signs before the goal that Argentina had come out to play in the second half. And actually the way England scored the goal is exactly what I would have worried about for Argentina before the match where they would be susceptible to counter-attacks.
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