World Cup Quarterfinal Recap

In todays episode we discuss Argentina and England going through to the semis and will face each other in an epic match! Tune in!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:27

Man, oh man, what's going on everyone? Another episode with the friendly foes here live on this Sunday morning now because it is midnight thirty East Coast time where we're at. Just finished watching the Argentina Switzerland game. Man, this World Cup has me kind of exhausted, man. There's so many overtime games, so many late night games. We got a lot to talk about. We had two really good games, some controversial calls in both games that we are gonna get into. But let's get into what we just watched because it was that Argentina versus Switzerland game that should have been Colombia, but it is what it is. We move past it now. But we said it, we talked about it yesterday and a couple of days prior. Argentina was gonna struggle, and boy oh boy, did they struggle. It came down to an overtime brilliance by Julian Alvarez, and we'll get to Julian Alvarez again, but what did you make of this game?

SPEAKER_01 1:27

Yeah, I mean, Switzerland definitely gave them a tough time. It wasn't an easy peasy lemon squeezy pass by Argentina. It it wasn't like you said, it it should have been us. It really should have been us, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

It should have been us, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

That's what I was thinking about the whole time. It just should have been used.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

It should have been us, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

Even though Switzerland gave him a really, really good game. Switzerland gave him a hard time. But it was it was pretty even. You can tell Argentina was a bit fatigued, but yeah, that it was just a moment of brilliance by Julian Alvarez that just changed everything. Because it was a pretty even game. You had uh Dibo Martinez had to make a couple of saves in the second half. He was this this the the man of of the game for a little bit there, but yeah, Argentina was struggling, dude. Argentina was definitely struggling, and Julian Alvarez out of nowhere was like golaso, bro. Colaso.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

I know we were talking about this yesterday, but because I was saying, I don't know if he's worth that 150 mil. I saw that goal and I was like, hey, Guardiola, pay the 150 mil dog. Just do it. Or not Guardiola, La Porta, La Porta, pay the 150 mil, dog. It's late, okay? Pay the 150 mil. Just do it at this point. Just do it. Do it. Give me Julian Alvarez. Is that what he's gonna do? Give me Julian Alvarez, okay? Except you guys have 150. Hey man, if we if we sell Ferran Torres for 100.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

You broke boys. A hundred? A hundred? That's I was I heard somewhere that's that's how much we're asking for. Nobody's paying for me for that guy. Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_00 3:01

No, but I saw that and I was like, La Portapea, brother. Let's just do it. At this point, just do it. Go rob a bank tonight. Go do whatever you need to do. Yeah. Just make it happen.

SPEAKER_01 3:10

At this point goal, he has to. That was now he's happy with the 150, right? Now, hey man, if he's gonna do that, he finally showed up with the World Cup. Yesterday you were like, nah, he's not worth one. Nah, not the 150. But then I saw that goal and I was like, do it, trigger it. Trigger it right now.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

As soon as I saw that goal go down, I was like, about him.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

It's you know what? Because he listens to the podcast, bro. He does. He woke up and he's like, oh, these little Colombianitos are talking shit about me. Alright, back.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

These guys want to talk smack. Hey, Juli, Juli, I'm glad I motivated you, bro. Hey man, I'm glad I motivated you, Boludo. Okay. Thanks for showing up, man. Now come to Barça. Stop fucking around. Stop. Just come to Barça. Okay. I know it's your dream. Anyway, we'll put a pin on that there. But that was it. Yeah, that was a hell of a goal. It's about time Julian Álvarez and Lautara Martinez both showed up, both strikers who were phenomenal strikers. Lautara, who's been leading goal scorer in CIA for many seasons now, captain of Inter Milan. Finally showed up today, too, man. Ended up doing Argentina 3-1. Alexis McAllister with a header in the first half. I was like, how did this little guy get up a header?

SPEAKER_01 4:23

The first thing I thought of was like, wow, no, no, no, none of our players could make a header like that.

SPEAKER_00 4:28

Do you know that's funny? That's the first thing that came to my mind. I was like, you mean to tell me these Swiss defenders, the entire game against Colombia, were clearing everything out, but against Argentina, they let Alexis McAllister score a header? It wasn't like Kuti Romero. It was Alexis McAllister. I was like, where was Akanji there? Akanji was blocking everything, every every uh ball that Quintero put in or Hamas put in. That was annoying. That was the first thing that came to my mind, too. I'm not salty at all, though, but that was the first thing that came to my mind.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

I was salty during that whole game, bro. That's salty. During that whole game, I was like, it should have been us against Argentina. It should have been us. It was just like watching somebody else sleep with your wife. That's exactly what it was.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

I mean, that's a little bit crazy, but god damn.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

Yeah, bro, because uh I didn't want anybody touching Argentina unless it was us. I wanted us to be the one to eliminate Argentina.

SPEAKER_00 5:21

It's funny, I'm sitting here with the Argentina jersey just because I I rock with Messi. I got the I got the Messi jersey on. I'm always rocking for him. I'm rocking with him, so I'm hoping that obviously, like now that Columbia's not in, I'm hoping they go all the way. I hate that. But yeah, man, it should have been us tonight. It should have been us. That's that's very sad. But anyway, let's get into well the game itself looked realistically pretty boring. Like I to be honest, I was falling asleep towards the end of the second half. Like I was laying on the couch.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

I'm not gonna lie, I didn't I I didn't make it past the second half. I woke up to Andrés Cantor screaming golf. I'm like, shit, what a goal.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

Bro, that's that's I couldn't make a time.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

That's so funny because I really can't do this.

SPEAKER_00 6:04

I was just telling Allie, because we're at her mom's house, and we're that she doesn't have telemundo, so we're watching it with the I was watching it with the Fox Sports broadcast and I was falling asleep, and I was like, this is why I like the Spanish commentators so much better. Because if anything was starting to happen, because I fell asleep whenever Lisandro Martinez almost scored like that half volley in the air, uh-huh, and I didn't hear anything happen. I didn't like I fell asleep, I missed that. I was like, if if freaking Andrés Cantoro would have been narrating that, he would have, hey Lisandro Martinez, and I would have been like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I would have woken up dead from my sleep, but I didn't. I kept sleeping through that. I watched the overtime, but like those last, like the added time in the second half, I was pretty much out. But anyway, it's tough, man. The late game was a late game. Late game, but it was a pretty boring game overall. Like there was not much action. Uh it was pretty even again. Like Plenty in Switzerland is hard, bro. Like they make it tough. Yeah, they're close themselves off. And they they're pretty good counter-attacking team. And they still didn't have the best player. Yeah, they still didn't have uh what's the name Monzombi. Yeah. And uh and even then, man, they went a man down. They went a man down in the second half. That was a very controversial call, very controversial decision. Uh, what did you think of this?

SPEAKER_01 7:17

I I mean it's controversial because uh VAR gets involved, right? Yeah, and it's something that it's a new rule within VAR. If you check the yellow card and it ends up not being a yellow card, you can reverse it and then give it to the other player. And that that's what ended up happening. It I mean, I I think it was definitely a yellow card from um Bolo for sure. Because he was looking for contact there. He was. It was a clear dive. Yeah, so it was it was a it was a clear yellow for sure, but I mean that that's something if it gets missed, you just keep playing, you know? Now with technology, you you know, VAR calls him like hey, hold up. That actually might you might have to reverse that yellow, you might have to look at it, so then you have to go to the screen, look at it. You had already given the yellow card, now it's like, oh man, I gotta reverse that yellow card. This guy already has a yellow card, and I have to give him another yellow card. So it's it's just yeah, it it it makes him more dramatic than it really is. But at the end of the day, the the ref followed the correct protocol, and he he did the correct thing with the yellow card.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

So I thought the same, I mean I thought it was harsh. Like, don't get me wrong, like that's harsh, so that's no bad for Switzerland and for the Swiss.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

Yeah, like that's at the same time, it it was a yellow.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

I mean, at this it was a yellow. I don't think it was well, I think it was the rough fault. He followed protocol, but I think if he hadn't given Paredes a yellow card, he would have never gone to VAR to check it. So had he not given Paredes a yellow card, I think that was if we want to say like there's a mistake, that was a mistake that the referee made. Is that he gave it a couple of things? But in real time it it did look it did look rough, like a it did look rough, yes. Like in real time. It did look rough.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

You're gonna give the referee the benefit of the doubt there for that. But when you look at it, especially in its slow motion, Mbolo was definitely looking for the foul.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

He was already diving, he was already on like going towards the ground after he saw he wasn't gonna get to the ball and he saw Padez coming. The thing is, like, if you are already on a yellow card and you're in a quarterfinal of a World Cup game, why the hell would you dive in the era of VAR? You just should not be doing that because you know that they can look at this and they can give you a yellow card for diving and for some players still aren't used to it.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Like this, this is new. Overturn to yellow, that's new. And that's why it's so controversial.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

And that's why it's so so controversial because and we talked about it whenever the Croatia thing happened, is that VAR was implemented to not cause so much controversy, but it's adding even more controversy. Yeah. And again, it's the it's it's the question is like, are we using too much technology? Is VAR getting involved too much?

SPEAKER_01 9:57

For these instances, yeah. I think so. I think so too. I think for like goal line technology, it's a must. Of course, like if it's an offsides or a foul or a red card, like how it usually is, then yeah, take a look at it. But for yellow card, corner kicks, corner kicks is iffy too. I don't like how there's like a double standard there, too. There is.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

I was gonna say that too. I was gonna say the new corner kick rule. I don't love.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

Yeah, you can only do it if uh if it's a core if it's a corner kick.

SPEAKER_00 10:26

Yeah, they can reverse the corner kick to a goal kick, but they can't do the they can't do the opposite.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what exactly what it is. So I think that's stupid.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

Which if you're if you're doing one, you might as well just do the other.

SPEAKER_01 10:37

Do the other, yeah, exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 10:39

Because if you're taking a corner kick away whenever it's clearly not a corner, you should also give a corner whenever you said that it wasn't. Exactly. Exactly. That seems like a weird rule to implement.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:52

So yeah, it was very controversial because of the way it happened, because of the fact that it was a second yellow, because of the fact that it's Argentina, because of the fact that it's messy, because everything that happens in the Argentina games get magnified by, you know, a thousand, and we'll get to the other controversial decision that happened in England. But there the I think, like you said, the referee ended up getting it right because he followed protocol and he did what the rules and the laws of the game said that he needed to do and what VAR told him to do. Now, again, the question is is VAR getting involved too much? Does VAR have too much power? Are we using too much technology? Yeah. Is it ruining the game? 100%. It's ruining the game. We've seen it happen way too many times in this World Cup. We saw it happen with the Davidson Sanchez offside goal, Iran's offside goal with Egypt, Croatia's hair follicle flick against Portugal. We saw it happen today, two games again in England, and then today with Argentina, like VAR is getting involved way, way too much in the game. So, and to me, that is that is ruining like the raw emotion and the and the beauty of the game a little bit. But is it like is it rigged? Is it all these things? Like, no, like at the end of the day, the referee followed the protocol. Is it harsh? Is it a very harsh decision? Yeah, but that's what everybody's already saying.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

It's rigged, but no, I mean, if you know ball, yeah, that's not all.

SPEAKER_00 12:13

You gotta do is just put your bias aside and look at it from an objective standpoint where what are the rules of the game? What is why is the referee doing this? Okay, that sucks. Like it's a harsh rule, it's a very harsh rule, but you gotta go, you gotta move forward with it, right? Yeah, you can't do anything about that. So there's been a lot of controversial decision by VAR being made, this World Cup that I wonder if it's gonna change if it they're gonna change some of the rules, because it's getting a little crazy. It's getting a little crazy, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:45

I I think they should just keep VAR how it was, just for red cards, for offsides, and fouls obviously leading up to goals. Like that yellow card stuff, just yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:56

The yellow card started it's almost too much. Like that's too much at this point. Leave it off, yeah. Yeah, but and then again at the same time, and Bolo, like I say he came off in tears. Like, I felt really bad for him. I really did. But you gotta be better than that. You won't do that again. Yeah, you won't do that again. Because even if Switzerland went through, if for a miracle they went through, he wouldn't be playing in the semifinal. Exactly. He misses that semifinal versus England. So I feel bad for him, but these are these are things that you shouldn't be doing in the era of VAR is diving and trying to, what's it called? Essentially trying to misguide the referee into his decision. And that's exactly what he did because he misguided the referee. The referee thought it was a clear foul, gave Paredes a yellow card because of it, until VAR stepped in and was like, yo, like that, he didn't even get touched. He was looking for that contact. He dove completely, and he's already on a yellow. So it's it's very harsh. It's very, very, very harsh, and I feel for Switzerland and the Swiss fans and for Rembolo. But at the end of the day, man, like the rules are the rules. So it is what it is. Now Argentina move on to a semifinal. This is their sixth semifinal that they're moving to, and they what sixth or seventh?

SPEAKER_01 14:05

Like in history.

SPEAKER_00 14:07

Yeah, history. I think this is their seventh semifinal. Hold on, let me let me look that up because I believe, yeah, okay, so 1930, 1978, which is when they won. 1986 they won. 1990, they lost in a final, 2014 they lost, and then obviously they went to 2020. So one, two, three, four, five. So this is their seventh, seventh semifinal appearance. I was right. So, okay, this is Argentina's seventh semifinal appearance. Their prior six, they have not lost. Every time they get to a semifinal, they move through to the final. Shit. So if I'm England, I'm a little scared.

SPEAKER_01 14:42

Yeah, it's gonna be a good game with England, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

Especially because like we've talked about it, Argentina has not been playing that well. And again, the last three games, they have not looked good, man. They just haven't. They just pulled awesome like gritty, gritty victories that come off till the very, very end. Lucky for them, they didn't go to PK's because I think Cobalt would have would have been good.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:01

So yeah, no.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

They got good individual players that can make a difference at any time. So that's the difference for Argentina.

SPEAKER_00 15:08

Yeah, but they move on. Messi had another semifinal, Argentina at another semifinal, and could potentially make another final with that stat that I just dropped. But let's talk about the other game that we had earlier today as well. Norway versus England. That was a much better game. That was a really, really exciting game. Also ended up going to overtime, played the the full 120 minutes, didn't get PKs today, but England came out on top two to one, went over Norway. Oh, Norway almost had them. Norway had a lot of opportunities that they could have put away, that they just ended up making bad little decisions here and there. But this was also a game that was a very back and forth. Like the first, up until the hydration break in the first half, England dominated. Then after that hydration break, Norway dominated. And then the second half, the same thing. It's like that first little period, uh, England did pretty well. That second half of the hydration break, after the hydration break, excuse me, Norway was doing pretty well. And then in overtime, I think England just did better. I didn't understand why Holland came off. Did you?

SPEAKER_01 16:12

Me neither. No, me neither. I think uh w what one of the guys at Telemundo was saying was because England was sitting so far back that he wanted to get rid of some bodies up front, have more bodies in the midfield to try and take some shots from outside of the box. Which they did that like twice after Haaland left. So I was like, damn, yeah, maybe that is true. I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

Maybe I didn't understand it. I was very confused. Uh Holland didn't have his best.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

They were confused about it too, but they were like, if we have to try to find an explanation, that that would be it. Yeah. Because I thought he was hurt at first. No, no, no, no. I it was uh it looked like a technical decision.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Interesting. Yeah, what I mean, what a decision, brother. Yeah. I haven't looked at any post-game interviews or anything like that, but man, what a decision.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

But like for post-game interviews, he he seemed chilled. Like he seemed like he took the loss in a good way and good spear. So I mean, I don't think they even expected to get this far in the first place.

SPEAKER_00 17:17

Yeah, good for them. They gave us they gave us some good football, some exciting moments, beat Brazil. I mean, that was super, super incredible.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

That game against Ivory Coast was also really, really good. Uh Holland had a phenomenal World Cup for his first appearance in obviously. Yeah, and let's not forget the Norwegians fans also showed out. Shout out to all the Norwegians fans, all the Vikings with the rowing. We all felt Norwegian at one point. That was sick. We're definitely gonna be missing that because I wanted to see that drum today. I wanted to see them banging that drum and rowing with the crowd. Because that's a sick, sick. That's what I love about the World Cup, man. We get those little fan or the moments with the fans from the players. We see it where Argentina interacting with their crowds. We'd see it with Colombia with the banderazos and everything that we do, just packing the stadium in full of yellow. Mexico and Mexico was amazing. The Scottish fans were so much fun. Everywhere they went, they were everyone had a blast with them. Obviously, they're the region fans. Yeah, the Dutch fans with their little hopping thing. Like it's everything. Like, and I'm I'm sure I'm missing some, but those are the first ones that come to mind. But I I love that about the World Cup. But yeah, anyway, not to get sidetracked here from the conversation of the game. Well, what did you think of the game? Do you think England was a fair winner?

SPEAKER_01 18:38

When you have a player like Jude Bellingham.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

Man, let's talk about your boy Jude. Let's talk about your boy Jude because he said that this was his night.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Yeah, what a baller. What an absolute baller. I think between him and Bappa and Messi, those are probably the three best players of the tournament hands down. Now that we're getting to the nitty-gritty, we got the semifinalists. Those are the three best players in the World Cup so far. And Jude Bellingham has him and Kane have carried this England team all the way to the semifinals. And Jude Bellingham has just turned it up a notch this past two games. He's been on a different planet right now. Like the way he moves, the way he defends, he's scoring, he's making moves, he's trying to assist people. Like he's just he's everywhere on the pitch. Literally everywhere. He's probably the most complete midfielder in the world right now. I would say him and Valverde. Yeah, I know I'm a Madrid fan. Ha, shocker. But I mean, tell me not, bro. Tell me not. Right now, during the season, I was saying Fedico I better was the most complete midfielder in the world because he had an absolute phenomenal season. And then now with the World Cup, Jude Bellingham has been showing how great he is and everything he can do. Both are box-to-box midfielders, they can do absolutely anything you task them to do. I mean, Jude Bellingham is just completely surpassed what I thought he could do. That man is an alien, compl a complete alien, and I can't believe he plays for my club. Dude, it's I cannot believe he plays for my club. It's it's so much fun watching him play. He really plays very similar to Saddam, bro. Very, very similar. Like the way he takes players on is just like, oh my god, it's like you're you're watching art, you know?

SPEAKER_00 20:19

He it's so funny to me, man, because obviously that his first season with Madrid was so good, and then the last couple seasons, he's taking a bit of a nosedive a little bit in terms of performance. But if you look at what he's done with Englin this summer, it has been phenomenal. And I think the way that him and Kane understand each other so well, him and Kane play phenomenally phenomenal together, excuse me, because they understand each other so well, and they know that when one drops in, the other one makes that run behind, and they they just what's it called, compliment each other. Yes, and that's something that Jude Bellingham has not been able to do with Mbappe, for example, with Mbappe playing the nine at Real Madrid, and he does it so well with Keane in England.

SPEAKER_01 21:02

Right now, he has a lot of freedom, like how he did with Madrid in the first season. He has a lot of freedom. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, Tuco's giving him a lot of freedom with Madrid the past two seasons. He hasn't had that same freedom. He's been dropping back a little bit more than when he did in the first season. The first season we didn't have a striker, so Ancelotti was like, bro, that like just roam that area, that's all you. And he did that. And but he can fulfill every single area of the midfield so well. And you say that he took a that he dropped off a little bit. I don't think he dropped off. He just wasn't putting up numbers like he was his first season. He's been playing a lot more defensively. And if you look at him too, he's been he plays phenomenal, dude. The way he takes people on, it's uh it's the same exact thing he does with Madrid, he's doing right now in England. I don't think he necessarily dropped off. It's just he just hasn't been putting up the numbers like he did that first season. That first season was insane. But if you want him to do that again, he'll do it for you. You just gotta put him in that right situation.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

And you get and you gotta yeah, you gotta put him in the right situation and and Like you said, give him more freedom, but also be able to understand himself with the striker because it's very clear to me that his the where he plays the best is that number 10 role. And he compliments himself again with Kane so well just because they feed off each other so well, they understand each other so well, and they just compliment each other so so well. Like a true number nine and a true number ten. And Kane drops in and Jude makes the runs in behind. And we saw it today, and it was amazing, dude. So he has at a different level right now. Yeah, Jude, Jude is at a different level. So you said him, Messi, and Mbappe, those are your top three players as well. You think Bellingham ahead of Kane? Because a lot of people are gonna say Harry Kane. No, I'm putting it in. Some people, some people in our in our comment section on social media in our Mbappé versus Dembele clip, they were saying that Harry Kane has been carrying England. And I don't necessarily agree with that.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

No, I don't agree with that. I mean, yeah, he's he's one of the two, but if if I had to pick one right now, it would be Jude Bellingham just because of these past two games. Yeah, these past two games have been incredible. Like the way he went to the Azteca and had that type of performance against a a Mexico team that was on fire and that everybody thought could beat them. They've only lost twice in the Azteca, then he came over there and made that his playground, bro.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

That was crazy. That was crazy, man. That was a phenomenal game. But yeah, Jude's having a great World Cup. He's already up to six goals, so he's up in that golden boot race as well.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

He is, and he's I don't I don't know how many assists he has. Hold on, let me see how many assists he has really quick.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Yeah, I don't know that either. I think Elisa is still at the at the top. Yeah, Elise still has five.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

Anthony Gordon has three.

SPEAKER_00 23:41

Anthony Gordon, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

I thought he might have had more assists, but he only has one. Harry Kane has one too.

SPEAKER_00 23:46

Yeah, Messi has two, Mbappe has three. And it's crazy to me that the tiebreaker for a golden boot race is assists.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

Oh, is it really? Is the assist? Yeah. I had no idea.

SPEAKER_00 23:57

As of today, Mbappe would be getting the golden boot because he has three assists and Messi has two assists. So one thing about Messi, too, is he broke the assist record. All-time assists leader in World Cup history is Lionel Messi now, who has 10 assists in all World Cups. This guy keeps breaking records. So not only is he the leading goal scorer in the history of the World Cup, he's also the leading assist provider in the history of the World Cup. This guy's a sick human being. He's a complete player.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

Ronaldo's the highest goal scorer in the history of the Champions League, and he's got the most assists in the history of the Champions League, too.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Yeah, that's pretty crazy. Mr. Champions League.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Mr. Champions League. But anyway, let's talk about the controversial decision over in England. Because in the second half, to make it, was it 1-1, right? You had to tie the game up. Nyland, the Norwegian goalkeeper, had a goal kick, kicked it off, and then live, whenever you're watching the game live, it didn't look like much happened. It just looked like Elliot Anderson took the ball down brilliantly, gave it to Anthony Gordon, and Anthony Gordon feeds it to Jude Bellingham. Jude Bellingham gets in the box phenomenally, scores, it's 1-1. Then we come back from the break, and I didn't watch it until the moon, I watched it on Fox, but the Fox Sports broadcast is showing us that the ball after the gold kick from hot from Nyland hits a cable from a camera up at the top, and then it drops directly down to Elliott Anderson. Now, protocol says that if the ball hits any sort of object while it's in the air, they have to restart the play. The funny thing is that the sensor within that chip, remember we talked about the Croatian player that sensed his little hair touching the ball. The chip did not sense anything this time. The ball did not sense anything. That is what FIFA is saying. Interesting. But if you watched the clip, it looks like it hits something and it drops directly down. The trajectory of the ball drops. And now there's this con a controversial decision because that goal stood because no the referee didn't see it. I mean, it would have been kind of hard to see it real time, but the ref didn't see it. VR didn't catch it. And then it goes back or he punted it. It was a goal kick.

SPEAKER_01 26:11

It was a goal kick?

SPEAKER_00 26:12

Yeah, it was a goal kick. So did you miss this? I did it.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

I completely missed that.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

Yeah, it's the all the talk of the town right now, all over social media, because now Norway's knocked out because of that one goal, right? Potentially they could have gone to PK's or whatever. But again, another very big controversial decision because you're telling me. Well, no, they went back there because I again in Fox, I saw it in Fox. I don't know about Telemundo, but they went back and Rebecca Lowe was talking about it, and then they went back and showed the reaction of the players, and the goalkeeper was telling the ref it touched, it hit the cable up there. And then some of the Norwegian players were saying the same thing. The coach was saying the same thing, so they did complain about it in real time. Damn, I completely missed that. Completely missed that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this happened as well. Well, that's crazy because I wanted to get your take on it, but you didn't even see it.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

No, I didn't see that at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:10

That's what happened.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

If you if you log into it on social media after the game, I really wasn't on social media. I was putting the kids to sleep in dinner doing other stuff, and then I I was just getting ready to watch the other game. I I didn't really see like the the afterwards. Damn, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 27:26

The only reason I caught it again is because they were showing it on the broadcast after after they came back from the break. That was the first thing they talked about. Was like, oh, look, look at this. It looks like the ball hits the cable, it drops directly down, and then Mark Clattenberg came on and he's like, Yeah, you know, there is a protocol that says if the ball touches any object outside of the field while it's in the air and it prevents the trajectory or stops the trajectory, then you have to restart that play. Yeah. So the referee missed that. So the referee missed that the the chip and the ball missed that, but then it hit the it it caught whatever the Croatian player hit with his hair or whatever. That's weird. So that is super weird.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

Again, so is your technology did FIFA just uh just rig that? For England, yeah. Are we gonna talk about it being rigged for England then? Or for uh did they did they try to help Portugal out too?

SPEAKER_00 28:16

Right, exactly. Yeah, did they exactly yeah? Did they try to help Portugal out?

SPEAKER_01 28:20

Is that what this try to did they try to bail that ref out too? I don't know, man. That's weird. Weird that that sensor didn't work if that's the case.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

Super weird.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

I don't understand, very bad luck, super bad luck.

SPEAKER_00 28:32

But that's how FIFA's defending itself by saying, Oh, the chip and the ball didn't catch it, so it didn't happen. But it's like, so you mean to tell me that just because the chip didn't catch it, it didn't happen? So you mean to tell me we have just have to trust technology? Like technology can never fail?

SPEAKER_01 28:48

Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 28:48

Yeah. Why don't we just have a bunch of robots as referees if technology can't fail? Just don't even have a center off, just referee from the sidelines and have a robot.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Dude, I wouldn't be surprised if that's a thing, like in 40 years.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Probably. That's probably where we're heading.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:04

Freaking Lord Voldemort's probably gonna want that. That's Gianni Infantino.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

They look alike too.

SPEAKER_00 29:10

Yeah, freaking he who shall not be named. Yeah, freaking idiot. Anyway. Yeah, yeah, maybe, maybe. Yeah, Seth Bladder was crazy. It's funny because Seth Bladder's over here like criticizing Infantino, and I'm like, bro, you are the last one to talk.

unknown 29:29

Shut the fuck up.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

Like, whenever the whole thing with Balogun went down and and them rescinding the suspension or suspending the suspension, whatever the hell it was, and then Trump calling Infantino. Set Blatter got on social media and started saying something. I was like, brother, shut. Like, who would you?

SPEAKER_01 29:45

I thought you were in jail. I don't know. I thought he was gone.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

I thought he was in jail or something. I was like, what are you doing talking?

SPEAKER_01 29:53

And the view paper is freaking crimes. Who gave you a phone, dude?

SPEAKER_00 29:58

Yeah. Who let you on Twitter, dog?

unknown 30:01

Go back.

SPEAKER_00 30:02

Who let you on Twitter, man? Get out of here. Anyway. But yeah, that was that was huge, very, very controversial. So I feel bad for the Norwegian players as well. But what can you do, man? Sometimes these things happen. Just like in life, there are things that go your way and sometimes things don't. It just it just sucks that it had to happen this way. So that that really does suck, man. Because again, it's not it's none of the England players' fault. There's nobody's no player's fault or anything. It's just it didn't get caught by technology that should catch these things, that catches other things, that sees other things, and we're all like, how like why are we doing this? And then the one thing that it should actually catch. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:39

What are those cameras doing in the way, anyways? Get those things out of the way. Well, it was like I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

It's like, you know how they get like the eagle eye capture from the top?

SPEAKER_01 30:48

Put them up higher. Put them up fucking higher. Do something. Get it out the fucking way, dude.

SPEAKER_00 30:52

It doesn't happen often. It doesn't happen often, but it happened today.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

If there's like a 1% chance of it happening, just get it out of the way, bro.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

Well, and and it just sucks because the one time that it happened, it just so happened that it led to a goal. Yeah, right. Like that situation. It's not like it led to anything else. It led to a goal. So that's why it's being so controversial because it the goal should not have stood. So anyway, aside from that, we we talked about Norway having to finish their chances. There were a couple, man, like in in that first half. I remember specifically, like in the maybe the 30th, 35th minute, Norway was pressing super hard, and they took the ball away from one of the defenders, and Holland like had it in the box, but it went behind him and he couldn't get to it fast enough, and then Jordan Pickford got it. And I was like, oh man, Holland's gonna regret that.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

And then there was another one too with uh Sorloth. He was like at a 2v1. It was him and Holland, bro. They were just up there by themselves. He didn't give it to Holland. I John Stones was coming back pretty quick. He he did cover that angle pretty good. I'm not gonna lie, I'll give credit to John Stones. But if Sorloth would have hit him first time, I think he would have got him. I think he would have hit him. Sorloth is in the Sorloth hit him one time, bro.

SPEAKER_00 32:06

Holland is right there. Why would you not give it to the most lethal striker in the world right here? That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

He took way too too long and then Stones recovered pretty well. He covered that angle very good.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

Stones had a good game, but yeah, Sorloth probably had Simeone in mind and was like, I don't know if Simeone would want me to shoot this right now. I think Charler would want me to take this to the corner. Let me, what do I do?

SPEAKER_01 32:28

I don't love him as a winger, bro. He should just stay on top. I don't love him as a winger.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

I don't like that either. Every time I see him as a winger, it's like this guy's not a winger, bro. What are we doing? That's probably what happens.

SPEAKER_01 32:38

4-4-2 or something, bro. I'm surprised it didn't.

SPEAKER_00 32:41

But yeah, Norway should have had some some opportunities that they should have capitalized on. Their goal was phenomenal. By shorter look, you can't pretty much just game point.

SPEAKER_01 32:50

Do you think he meant to cross it?

SPEAKER_00 32:52

No, I think he meant to shoot it.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

You think so?

SPEAKER_00 32:54

You think he meant to cross it?

SPEAKER_01 32:56

I think he meant to cross it to Holland, bro.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Well, Holland was at the back post.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

Holland was there.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

Holland was at the back post. I mean what a fucking terrible cross, I'll tell you that.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

Yeah.

unknown 33:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:08

If I were him, I'd be telling people, yeah, I think that 100%. I thought he meant it. What a cool thing.

SPEAKER_01 33:15

I think I think he's saying that too, but when you look at it, it's just kind of like an awkward shot, quote unquote, because I think it's a cross. And Holland was running towards that back post. So I'm like, dude, like you you really gotta have some confidence to think you're gonna make that with Holland right there when you can just cross it to Holland. So I I I think he meant to cross it to Holland. But regardless, it was a golaso.

SPEAKER_00 33:39

It was a freaking golaso, yeah. Golaso, man. And then in overtime, bro, Nyland makes one mistake where he doesn't catch on to the ball. There's a shot from distance, he should have caught onto it. He spills it, and Jude Bellingham is right hair, right there, just puts it away, and that's game. That's ball game. That's all she wrote. That was at the 92nd minutes. The second minute of overtime. And knows where to be, man. He knows where to be. Yeah, he had a great game. So now we get England. England versus uh Argentina is gonna be a hell of a game.

SPEAKER_01 34:13

This is gonna be a good game.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

We haven't seen an Argentina England game game in a long time at the World Cup. When was the last let's see?

SPEAKER_01 34:22

In the World Cup, I think they played each other well '86, of course. And I think there was that one friendly like in '98 with Beckham and like Batistuta and all that.

SPEAKER_00 34:33

Wait, yeah, that that did happen in '98. You're right. So the last time they played was in '98, which was the whole thing with Simeone, Simeone and Beckham. Where Simeone, yeah, Simeone essentially got into Beckham's head and Beckham got a red card, and Beckham was the most hated man in England until two thousand for like four years.

SPEAKER_01 34:52

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:53

Yeah. Beckham became the most hated man in England, and obviously in 86. Yeah, he does. That was a good documentary. Yeah. And then in 86, the hand of God. Yep. In in 66, they faced each other into quarterfinals. England beat Argentina in Wembley, and they ended up winning the entire World Cup. And then the first time they faced each other was in 1962 in uh group stage. So they haven't faced each other in the World Cup in 28 years. This is gonna be electric. This is gonna be electric, man. Electric. I'm sure, man. I'm super excited. Who do you think takes that one?

SPEAKER_01 35:27

I'm I'm pulling for England now, honestly. Just for the whole world.

SPEAKER_00 35:31

Your boy, your boy Jude.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

Yeah, I'm gonna be pulling for Jude. Yeah. Especially because of the World Cup that he's having. I gotta rock with him, bro. I just have to. I need one of my Madrid boys to bring home the World Cup, man. And if anybody should do it, it should be my boy Jude.

SPEAKER_00 35:46

Jude over Mbappe.

SPEAKER_01 35:48

Yeah, Mbappe already has one, bro. Let Jude have one, man. If Jude gets one, oh my god, he's gonna put his name up there with the greats.

SPEAKER_00 35:58

And he's only 22. Especially with the with the World Cup that he's having. Because it's another thing if you win it without really playing that well, but the way that he's playing in the World Cup that he's having, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 36:08

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 36:09

He's gonna be up there.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

I mean, it it's right now it's Messi, Mbappe, and Jude. Those are the top three players of the World Cup, in my opinion. I'll say it.

SPEAKER_00 36:17

Wow. I think I think you're right. The last two games, Jude has stepped it up. I think in the first, in the group stage up until like the round of 32, Harry Kane was much better for England. But the last two games, Jude has been much better.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

And knockout football is what counts.

SPEAKER_00 36:32

Yeah, knockout football is what counts. So yeah, you may be on to something there. Yeah, we'll see what the people think. Who are the top three players at the World Cup right now and why? Let's see it. Let's see what happens. But anyway, man, yeah. So you think England's gonna win? How how much? What's the prediction? What's the score line?

SPEAKER_01 36:49

Bro, I think it's gonna be another game going to extra time. Actually, I think it might even go to penalties, man.

SPEAKER_00 36:54

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 36:55

I think it's gonna be fucked dude. I don't know. What's gonna be the final score? I think it might end 1-1. Wow. One-one, and it could get decided in penalties. That's my prediction.

SPEAKER_00 37:06

Wow, that would be insane. Yeah, that would be insane. I think I do think it's gonna go to overtime as well. They're both the both of these teams are so fatigued. They're gassed, bro. Gassed, bro. Especially Argentina. I mean, Argentina has been, out of the last three games, two of them went to overtime. And then versus Egypt, they had to fight till like the 98th minute to win.

SPEAKER_01 37:28

Well, Mexico or Mexico, England too, they had to play Mexico in Mexico with a man down for like 40 minutes. That's right. They were Amanda. Yeah, and they just went to extra time against Norway. So they're yeah, both teams are gonna be pretty gassed.

SPEAKER_00 37:42

Man. I do think it's gonna go to overtime as well, but I think it's it's also gonna be a tight score line. I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna be 3-2 Argentina. 3-2 Argentina. I think Argentina continues their unbeaten streak in the semifinal. They make it to another final of the World Cup. That's crazy. And it's I think they do it, man. Well, things are starting to heat up, man. We got uh we got a break tomorrow for the World Cup. No games tomorrow, no games on Monday. We're back again on Tuesday with the first semifinal, France versus Spain, and then Wednesday, Argentina, England, and then we got the final of the World Cup. Man, I can't believe it's already the final of the World Cup. Sunday, July 19th. So a week from today, we're gonna see who is gonna be crowned world champion. A legitimate world champion, by the way. None of this NBA or NFL nonsense, a legitimate world champion. Yeah, legitimate. A legitimate champion of the world this Sunday. It's gonna be in East Rutherford, New Jersey. None of this new New York stuff. This is gonna be in East Rutherford, New Jersey at MetLife Stadium. Who will it be?

SPEAKER_01 38:52

Should have been at the Azteca.

SPEAKER_00 38:54

It should have been. That is 100% true. It should have been at the Azteca. Why are we not doing this at the Azteca? That is a fortress stadium in football and MetLife. It's just, you know, people get injured there all the time.

SPEAKER_01 39:07

It's gonna be hot too, bro, 3 p.m.

SPEAKER_00 39:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:10

That's like peak, peak heat time. I don't understand why they at least didn't do it in an indoor stadium. Like Dallas would have been perfect, too. Yeah, I think it's a good idea. If not that Azteca, do it in Dallas, bro, or SoFi. Los Angeles. Yeah, what are the two, bro? Dallas or Los Angeles would have been perfect. Do it in an indoor stadium where they have a little bit of AC.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

At the end of the day, it's it's all politics, it's all pollutarity and everything. So it that which is what sucks, but yeah, this final should have been in a better stadium. Yeah, for sure. Much better stadium. So but anyway, man, this about wraps it off for this episode. We'll be back again to discuss the semifinals leading up to the final, man. So we appreciate you all tuning in to another episode of The Friendly Foes. Again, be sure to rate, subscribe, review. It helps us grow. Follow along on social media. We appreciate all the new followers. If you're new here, we appreciate you. We love you if you've been here. We love you as well. We appreciate you so much. We'll see you all next time.