Are Ancelotti's Brazil serious World Cup contenders?
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The Athletic FC. Hi there and welcome to The Athletic FC podcast with me, Adam Leventhal. So Brazil put three past Scotland to leave the Tartan Army's qualification hopes hanging by a thread. But does that win in Miami make Carlo Ancelotti's side serious contenders for this World Cup? Well, with me is Karl Anka. How are you?
I'm doing well, thanks. How are you?
I'm good. What time zone are you on?
I have no idea.
Did Brazil’s 3-0 win over Scotland prove they’re World Cup contenders under Ancelotti?
Carl, if you don't know already, was in Chicago. He is now back. And he doesn't know where he is, which is good. But he is here with us.
Keris Jones, how are you? I'm good. I'm tired. Not as tired as Carl, but stayed up through Scotland and through Morocco, Haiti, and don't know how much I feel that decision was worth it. Yeah.
But... Morocco Haiti was great if you watch it on the big screen.
Or if you watched the first half, which I didn't. I saw how good the game looked and then put it on my second screen for the second half and then it sort of wasn't quite as exciting the second half. So I got that one wrong. Must do better next time.
I was sat up with my son and we were watching the Brazil-Scotland game and he was just basically going, why are we watching this? Why are we watching this? Why don't we watch the other game? It was good and it featured a banger from Wilson Isidore as well for Haiti. We'll come to that in a minute. So the final group games, obviously, in full swing. A, B, C are now done. Brazil threw as Group C winners after that 3-0 win over Scotland. Scotland. Scotland. Jeepers, creepers, what are you doing? It was all there. They'd started off quite well for the first five minutes and then...
what did you make of their defending naive yeah childish yeah perhaps this is my jaded sports journalist having watched so many games of football now but I get especially angry at teams that concede in first half stoppage time
Oh yeah, just see it out, boys.
That one really gets my goat now. And it's a Scotland team that, I said it yesterday, I think their game plan for the tournament's been heavily wrenched, however you want to describe it, by the fact that Billy Gilmore got injured. They have real problems progressing the ball between the boxes. But to concede your first goal, being caught playing out from the back. To concede a second goal, playing out from the back, and then have that chalked off by VAR...
You've been warned. Yes. You've been told. You've been told.
Behave. And then to concede, again, just the really naive goals before. halftime in what particularly in a World Cup where goal difference okay goal difference doesn't necessarily matter as much as it used to but making sure you do not hemorrhage goals is very very important and it was just really very very disappointing and there's so many times now where Scotland fans who travel in great voice in great number and wherever they go the city they move to temporarily the the hotel owners the bar owners the locals fall in love with them i was speaking to jj bull about this i was he was saying when he was in boston and he went back home the boston locals saying please don't leave you want you to stay like people want to fall in love with scottish football and then you watch scottish football
And it's so disappointing. Scotland fans deserve better and that was just the real childish performance.
Let's deal with the weenie thread that their hopes still hang by they have a chance of still qualifying but it is it's a very distant hope isn't it via going through as a best third placer it's on the 40 it's 38 at the moment i think according to our projections model yeah looking at the third place sort of league table in front of me eight best third place teams go through there in seventh and
Cape Verde, Belgium, DR Congo, Ecuador, Senegal, all behind them and could mathematically catch them and still have to play. So it's not great. They need a lot of things to go their way. And I think, like Carl said, what's so disappointing is that I think losing to Brazil, anything but losing to Brazil, would have been a great upset.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–0:34
2
Did Brazil’s 3-0 win over Scotland prove they’re World Cup contenders under Ancelotti?
0:34–8:32
3
What went wrong in Scotland’s defensive performance and qualification chances?
8:32–24:15
4
How did Carlo Ancelotti describe Brazil’s identity after Miami and what did James Horncastle observe?
24:15–31:43
5
Are Brazil pragmatic winners or can their pressing identity beat top opposition?
31:43–36:16
Speakers
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