USA light up the World Cup - can Brazil or Scotland follow suit?
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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
39 min
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Paul with one figure. Dusk falls on day two at the World Cup. And boy, have we got a lot to talk about on this Totally Football show. Friday, in Los Angeles, red hot, red stripe USA, red, white and blue pass Paraguay 4-1. In Toronto, Canada get first ever World Cup point. Laryn from David to curb Bosnia's enthusiasm. Saturday, one, two, three, four matches, including Brazil. Hello there, welcome to the Totally Football Show. Thanks so much for joining us. What a lineup we have for you today. From left, we've got Phil Hay. Good evening.
How did the USA perform against Paraguay in their World Cup opener?
A radiant Megan Ferringer. Hi. Hi to you too. And also Duncan Alexander.
Hello, James.
Ahoy there. Fantastic.
What significance does Canada's first World Cup point hold?
What a day. Megan, what an evening it's been. Friday for here in Los Angeles for the USA.
This has been such a fun day. And I owe everyone an apology for... for acting just so negative towards my team.
What are the expectations for Scotland's match against Haiti?
Yeah.
Well, now they've beaten Paraguay.
We're going to win the World Cup. This is how these things go.
USA scored more goals today than they did in the entirety of the last World Cup.
Yeah, it's the most goals we've ever scored in a World Cup match. And I thought we played phenomenally well. I don't want to sort of indulge in hyperbole at this point.
But?
Yeah, I mean, if we made it to the final, amazing. But no, I mean, Paraguay weren't very good. And I think that first half definitely showed that. But we capitalized. And I think the cohesion of the attack especially, I'd say that's the best performance we've seen under Mauricio Pochettino in quite some time, if not under his entire tutelage.
Wow. Crikey. We'll get into the game. We'll analyse the goals, four of them. What else stood out for you today, Friday, day two of this World Cup, Duncan?
Another good day for the officials, enacting some of IFAB's new rules. Or laws, technically. IFAB, obviously, a shadowy group of men that meet in a golf club in South Wales, usually, once a year to bring in new rules. But they've obviously brought them all in for the World Cup. And I think we saw a first-ever mistaken identity yellow card overturn in the US game.
It involved Miguel Almiron.
Yeah, so Tim Ream challenged him, and Almiron went down. But on replay... I mean, Reem didn't touch him. And now we're on three to 15 steps later when I'm going to go down. The ref bought it, gave Reem a yellow. After flirting with a red a little bit, he did a little bit of a... Well, no, I think this ref had a certain style, which is when he keeps his cards together, which is a sensible thing to do. So every time he gets the yellow out, you can also see the red, which adds a little frisson. But, yeah, it was a couple of minutes before VAR told him to go and have a look. OK. And he did. And it's a whole new ballgame.
In the earlier match, Canada's game against Bosnia-Herzegovina, Phil, something that you enjoyed.
Yeah, also new rule. Duncan was saying they're like a shadowy group of men. They sometimes rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic crew as well. And a lot of the laws don't seem to... The tweaks they do don't seem to make any difference. But... This one, the throw-in law, where you're given a timer to take the throw-in, as Bosnia were, and you get five seconds, essentially, and if you don't get on with it and you don't do it, then the throw-in gets awarded to the opposition, which in this case happened and it went to Canada. And these actually seem like really sensible ideas which they should start rolling out elsewhere, especially in the Premier League pronto.
I mean, that's the plan. I imagine if they're tested here and there's... They're in for good.
So we can all look forward to this in our own local leagues next season.
Excellent. I should say, by the way, thank you everybody who's been tuning in on YouTube as well as in our usual podcast format. A lot of people excited as well by the wildlife moment that we enjoyed yesterday, Megan, with the intrusion of a skunk in our backyard here in Los Angeles. James, a.k.a. Jimmy Bronze, said, thought this was excellent. As weak as I am, I really enjoyed the bit where the guys got skunk and antsy.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:39
2
How did the USA perform against Paraguay in their World Cup opener?
0:39–0:48
3
What significance does Canada's first World Cup point hold?
0:48–1:02
4
What are the expectations for Scotland's match against Haiti?
1:02–4:33
5
What insights can we gain from the match analysis of USA vs Paraguay?
4:33–4:56
6
How did new rules affect officiating in the World Cup matches?
4:56–17:27
7
What were the standout performances in the USA vs Paraguay match?
17:27–39:10
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