France v Spain World Cup Clash | The Breakfast Wrap LIVE
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How did the hosts introduce the France vs Spain World Cup semi-final and sponsor message?
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It is The Breakfast Wrap. It's Neil Atkinson with Kev Riley with John Gibbons. Halfway through World Cup semi-finals, we are with our partner, Saley. So wherever you are in the world, if you download the Saley app and then select the country that you're going to travel to, which I've done very recently with Spain. and then from there agree the data package that you want. You can then go and check out, and you put the code TAW, and you get 15% off. It is enormously useful. I can't recommend it highly enough, so do give it a big go. As I say, just did it in Spain. All worked perfectly smoothly. It meant that I had internet everywhere, although I tried not to use my phone whilst I was away. I want to be clear, I very much, I deliberately left the phone in the room at times.
I was very no phone because obviously you can't come off the work WhatsApp, can you? You know, so suddenly that's battering you. Then there's room is about X, Y or Z, you know, and then suddenly you are checking your phone and then you're wondering what's going on. So I wanted to be relatively phone free. But regardless, it helps to have Saley on your phone. We'll be using it in the US. We're happy to be partnered with them. So we gave her football.
Yeah. Yeah, it was interesting, wasn't it? I think, obviously, France went into it as favourites, but it's been difficult, I think, to judge Spain so far this tournament because they're... I think their main quality as a team is how they control football matches, and they've largely played teams who aren't interested. And so I think they were always, on reflection, always likely to get better and be better once they played against the better teams. Whereas France, we spoke yesterday, they're a bit like a club team, and we said that praising them, but when I was watching them yesterday, I sort of realised that they're set up like a club team. We were... almost there to to flat track bully a little bit you know you talk about the premier league and the idea of being the bottom turn home and away france would be great at that yeah they're set up to do to do that 60 points yeah they've got all these attacking players and so all these teams you've low blocked against them they've defined the way through because they've got threats from everywhere they've got pace out wider than they've got you know at least say that in the middle and so they've got they've got threats coming from
I know all over the pitch and people couldn't live with it. Whereas Spain obviously struggled to break the team's time. They drew one of their earlier games. And so I don't, you know, I think a lot of people got into, including, you know, you saw from the bookmakers odds and things like that. I think fans have looked at better teams, so they'll probably win. But I think... the game suited Spain a lot more. And once Spain had a team who wanted to get at them, who wanted to exploit space themselves, they were just able to just dominate that midfield. Obviously, there's the team selection that the manager goes for. He brings two and many, massively backfires, then can't take him off because Rabiot's an idiot.
So he's got that problem. I think he's had years and Owen Rabiot was an idiot though so I'm limited on sympathy no no I'm limited on sympathy because he doesn't have to picture him any he goes to Barcol over how to do a listen he's been swapping them to you know in and out I thought Barcol had at least the first half as well yeah he did and so so that's but it determine anyone sort of really backfires from really could he have picked three in the middle i think it would have been a big shout so because you're probably dropping at least say then and i think or dropping one of your wide yeah and and putting at least say out there i think that would have been a big shout from there i think it's just a too many one but but i still do wonder
despite all that and despite Spain dominating and despite them being the better team I still do wonder how the game would have progressed if that Evertonian Divian had just kicked them and I think I think that that does change the game because it
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How did the hosts introduce the France vs Spain World Cup semi-final and sponsor message?
0:00–5:56
2
How did John describe Spain’s style and France’s setup during the first half?
5:56–21:57
3
Why was the first goal and the penalty so decisive in Spain’s victory?
21:57–26:50
4
What comparisons and emotional reactions did Kev share about the match atmosphere?
26:50–44:54
5
Which Spanish players (Laporte, Rodri, keeper) did the panel credit for tactical control?
44:54–1:08:25
6
How did the hosts assess England’s chances against Argentina and tactical lessons from Spain?
1:08:25–1:08:47
Speakers
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