WORLD CUP PREDICTIONS

Rhys & Jordan make there predictions for the world cup from the group stage all the way up to the final we've also discussed who will win the Golden boot and player of the tournament, do you agree with our predictions? who's winning the world cup?


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SPEAKER_00 0:10

Well then, so what we're having then we're going group stages predictions. We're gonna run through our World Cup predictions now all the way to the final, all the way to the winners, group stages.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Now we did this prior as a little thing a couple of weeks ago, and I'll guarantee that they're not exact. If we could go through, they won't be exactly the same.

SPEAKER_00 0:27

They won't be the same. No.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

Right, I'll let you go first.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

We'll go group A each. Yeah, yeah. Right, so I think Group A, in my opinion, speaks for itself. Mexico. No. You haven't gone Mexico to win it. Fucking hell. Well, it don't speak for itself then, does it? Well, I've had Mexico, uh, Czech Republic, Korea, and South Africa. Okay. So if you've had that the other way around, that's mental.

SPEAKER_01 0:49

Near enough.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

Have ya?

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Yeah, yeah. So more and I've gone uh South Korea. I think can I be honest? Can I be honest? Fares. Okay. I went through this and going through this, my heart ran away with it a lot more than my head.

SPEAKER_00 1:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

So Sonny's obviously gonna blast that do it for them.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

Yeah, I mean you've got Sonny, ain't ya? And you've got Paik Sung ho.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

Yeah, if you're paying.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

If you're playing.

SPEAKER_01 1:15

If you're paying, I said.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Oh don't get it.

SPEAKER_01 1:18

You said pay some ho, didn't you?

SPEAKER_00 1:20

No, no, I said paik son. Oh. Oh pay some ho. Yeah, if you're paying. Fairs, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

Right, anyway. Um I've gone Korea, Mexico, South Africa, Czech Republic.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

Wow, okay. Fucking okay. I'm more sucked that you haven't had Mexico type. I just think they'll fucking storm it. And they've got an easy start as well with South Africa.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

Well, I think a lot of things you can look at, you you look at it, and a lot of the way we've got our last man standing, right? And you go through it and you can look at it. The only thing you can really judge it off, I suppose, because you don't I don't know how well Mexico play. So the only way you can judge it off is the world rankings, realistically.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

And being uh they've got a home advantage.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

So? When's that mat when's that mattered the past few years? Last time that mattered was in France 98.

SPEAKER_00 2:07

Not really, because Russia done well in theirs, and they won 5-0 on their opening day. Who did they play? Um it was someone fucking shot. Qatar. Yeah, it was so good. But don't forget, I think they got I think they got to like the roundabout eight quarters, I think, didn't they?

SPEAKER_01 2:22

Yeah, okay, but that's but the only time it really last time it actually mattered was And then Brazil.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

Brazil done well in theirs, didn't they? No. Apart from was that the Spain one? Spanked. Was that the Spain one?

SPEAKER_01 2:34

They got spanked in the fucking got sent out by Germany, didn't they? Wasn't that quarter finals?

SPEAKER_00 2:39

It was Germany, yeah. I think it was quarter 7-1, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was in Brazil. Okay, first.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

The last one that did was like I keep saying.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

France 98.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

Yeah, you could France 98, because I think 2002 was South Korea, and that was Brazil, Germany. 2006 was Germany, and that was Italy, um Italy, Spain, France, no, France, slightly France, and then you had South Africa 2010, which was Netherlands, Spain, then you had Brazil 2014, which was Germany, Argentina, because Mario Goethe. Yeah, Russia, which was uh France. Uh Croatia. Yeah, and then the last one, which was in um that place with that team. Uh with Argentina and France. I don't think it matters anymore. No, I don't think it used to, once upon a time, but I don't think it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00 3:27

I think Climate will play a lot of fucking a big part in this though.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

And it's big teams, when big teams host the the nation, that's it. Mexico aren't a big team. Sorry, I just can't see it. And they've got and they've got home advantage for one game. I don't think they're playing their other two games, are they? Because you've got to bear mind it's in America and Canada. So America and Canada. We could potentially play them. So America and Canada are gonna top the groups as well, yeah?

SPEAKER_00 3:49

Not necessarily, no.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Why not? That's going off home advantage or use this.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

Because I think they're worse teams, personally. I think Mexico can be a group.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

So you think Mexico are gonna go through because it's a good team, not the home advantage thing?

SPEAKER_00 4:00

No, I think the home advantage plays a part, but I'm just saying, I think that next one, because I'm interested in that. Okay, right, so group B, I've gone Switzerland, yeah, Canada, no, Bosnia, and Qatar. Nope. You think Qatar ain't finishing fourth? That's mental.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Dark Horse man. What? So the thing is, they fuck. When you look at when you look at Qatar, right, they they do well in their what I don't know what it is, the Euro, the A, whatever the Asia Cup is, they boss that all the time, you know. They've won it, I think they've won it back to back. Yeah, but who's the up against the big teams at Australia? No, because uh they do, yeah, but it doesn't matter, it's the Asia, they play South Japan are in it, South Africa, South Korea are in it, they're in it.

SPEAKER_00 4:43

I don't write them one bit, but okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Well I know a little dark course. I'll I was going through, but it's I was going through it. So I've gone Switzerland, Bosnia, and then I've just threw them in there because to me it was between either them or Canada, and I thought, do you know what? I think they're both pony. So I thought I'd rather see Qatar. Canada bottom. Yeah, I'd rather see Qatar potentially be the third best team. I'm not saying that Qatar that I don't think they'll finish bottom and they're good.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

I thought we were going to be really close on this.

SPEAKER_01 5:08

We have fucking malls, no lock off. My my heart's run away with it a bit more. Yeah, okay, no, you're probably thinking logistically. Um for me, as for me as a football fan, I'm thinking Switzerland and Bosnia are the strongest teams there, and then I'd rather see Qatar potentially go through. I think it'd be nice after them to go through as a third place team. But it's a toss-up between them. Oh, at first. I reckon I could see Canada getting dicked every single game and Qatar maybe getting a draw. Or Qatar beating Canada.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

I don't know. You never know. You never know. I mean, Saudi Arabia beat fucking Argentina 2-1, didn't they? In the last World Cup, so no one's gonna be able to do it. I'll be very surprised. Group C We've got a group C now look. We've got it. Probably, yeah. Brazil, Morocco, Scotland, Haiti. There you go. Okay, so we ain't gotta talk about that one.

SPEAKER_01 5:49

That one's just fucking I thought I'd just go that one because if my if my heart was running away with that, I would have put Scotland bottom, but they're not gonna, are they?

SPEAKER_00 5:55

Nah, I can't see Haiti even getting a point in that, you know. No, unfortunately not. Right, group D. Turkey. No. What? Okay, right, okay. Turkey, United States of America, Paraguay, and Australia.

SPEAKER_01 6:11

Er, we've got one right. Oh, Australia bottom. So yeah, I went er I've gone a little bit of a dark horse in Paraguay. I do like Paraguay. Paraguay to finish top, I think they could they could easily finish top. So I've gone Paraguay, Turkey, US of A, and then Australia. I think Paraguay can do maybe like a Costa Rica.

SPEAKER_00 6:31

So you think USA third in that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I would have had them third, but again, home nation, you never know.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

And oh, I don't know actually this in Group E. Obviously we've got another top now.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

Nah, nah, we haven't. I think Ecuador for this one.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 6:47

So I've gone Ecuador, Germany, Oricoast, and Coracao.

SPEAKER_01 6:53

I've got car yeah, I've gone Germany, Ecuador, Oricoast, Caraco, Cow, Corral. Caraca, cow cow, cacao cow cow. Yeah. So yeah, that's okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

Yeah, I think Ecuador, man, they they've got a strong backline, mate. I don't think we've got Morocco thinking Casa, Estepina, and they're all Ecuadorian. Not Colombian. They are, aren't they? They're from Ecuador. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

Casado, uh, I think so. Yeah, I think so. I think there's a f yeah, there is a few. There's a few knocking around. Uh is it Lerma, Lima? Lerma, Jefferson Lerma, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

I think he is as well, yeah. Yeah, I've I've and do you know what? I think Germany are going for a bit of a transitional period. I don't think they've got anyone. I don't feel like they haven't got no strong centre forward, they're gonna have to rely a lot on Havertz.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

I feel yeah, I feel I reckon this, I reckon Virtus will just have a fantastic World Cup, you know, after the C yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

There's always at one.

SPEAKER_01 7:42

This one, I'll be interested in. I don't think we've got this one down because you you've said that you reckon Sweden are gonna do the title. So you've got Sweden bottom? No, I haven't.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

So I've got I've got my dark horse here at Japan. Okay. Top. I think they're gonna do really well. Okay. Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Tunisia.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

Have you seen uh like pictures of j uh Japan after they've when they leave?

SPEAKER_00 8:02

Oh, they're clean up and they're so fucking respectful, mate. I love it. I think they're brilliant.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

I want to go there. Just this is you're gonna go into a little geography tourist podcast now. Because the bins on the street. Well no, no, I like their little they're little soid, they've got little soy, I don't want to call them rivers. Oh yeah, and they've got like the fish swimming through the road. Fish swimming through on the roads and that, yeah, yeah. Man oil covers are artwork, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

They've got no bins on the street either, you know. So if you you if you go to shop and boy, I don't know, a sandwich or whatever, and you've got the bit you have to take that home.

SPEAKER_01 8:34

And have you seen like this have you seen like all the the stuff they do? Like they've got just everything. Like it's just in like then I feel like they're 20 steps ahead of us in everything.

SPEAKER_00 8:46

I think that we can and the Pokemon mad as well, so you've got even just little things like you can go toilet.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

I don't, I don't for the people that the free people that are listening, Donaldson probably knows this. I don't poo in public. Right?

SPEAKER_00 8:58

Shits himself instead.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

Yeah, I can't. So it wouldn't match anyway, but obviously, like there, you've got like um you've got like your little your little joy pad next year, and you've got like you're playing noises, so if you want to be like be loud on the toilet.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

Making beats.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

No, but like I'm not just also I don't know, I nearly said animal noises, then like I know, I don't know, but like these little things you can press it and it makes noises, so people can't either go toilet. That's good.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

I just put TikTok on and put the volume all the way up.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

Yeah, I do that when I'm at home, but I still feel like sometimes sometimes I'm like, I'm like, I'm gonna shut the door. Can you put your headphones in? I'm gonna turn the shower all the time. Turn the shower and all the taps on. Yeah, I don't like it, man.

SPEAKER_00 9:32

I really don't I don't know what it is. Don't know what it is. That's mad. Some people are like that. Some people can't even use the urinals because they've getting mental blocks. Do you know what? I used to actually I used to when I was a kid, I used to.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

I used to this is drifted off the podcast. This is me and you're talking about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um I used to wrap loads, put loads of toilet paper in the bottom of the toilet.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

Yeah, so stop the boom and the splash back. It's like a double whammy.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, let's go carry on. I'd have to clean. Right, so you've had Oh I haven't seen well. I went Netherlands, Japan, Svidan, Tunisia.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

Yeah, so we've just got Japan and Netherlands, the different sides.

SPEAKER_01 10:02

I'll be interested to see what you do with this one. This one's got number one now on.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

Yeah, 100%. It's gotta be Belgium. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that that group, I was looking at it earlier, that's gotta be the easiest group for Belgium. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is like the easiest group for the bigger.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

I was tossed up between two and three. I've had New Zealand bottom.

SPEAKER_00 10:19

I've had Egypt second, New Zealand third, and Iran fourth. I had Iran second, second, yeah. I think that that one between them three teams, apart from Belgium, anyone can finish anywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that was that one was pretty much by default if I think about it. I think I went with Egypt because of Mo Salah and um what's his name? Your man Marmous.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

Yeah, that's why I didn't want him to go through. You're not a fan. Nah, fuck him.

SPEAKER_00 10:40

So you've had it as we behold on. I'd hope so. I think that one's pretty much fucking.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

So I mean to go first on this one because I've Yeah, go on. You can do the So I've gone Spain, Spain, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia, RK Verde. Yeah, that's spang on. Easy.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

And then group I.

SPEAKER_01 10:57

I went France, Norway, Senegal, Iraq.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

Okay, swap Senegal and Norway. I've gone France, Senegal, Norway, Iraq.

SPEAKER_01 11:03

Yeah, but you fancy Senegal.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

I love Senegal, mate. They've got a stack team, bro.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

Fuck them.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

I think they're bad boy. I love them.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

Right, and then I went Group O. No. Group J.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

Oh, sorry, yeah, Group J. Sorry, I skipped one.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Uh Argentina, Algeria.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

Nope.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

No, you're on Austria. So Argentina, Algeria, Jordan, Australia, Austria. I went Jordan just for the obvious.

SPEAKER_00 11:27

I like I like Sibica and fucking Arnatovich for Austria. Yeah, but I went with the obvious one of Jordan. Yeah. Well, so you've had Argentina, Algeria, Jordan. Jordan and Austria to finish last. Wow. A European team to finish last in a group.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

But it was because I can't. I'm not gonna put Jordan bottom, am I? Well you can because there's again, I've told you my heart's run away with most of this.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

Oh fares. Imagine you get all these right. Right then, group K.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

Uh top two's now done.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

Portugal, Colombia.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

Yeah, yeah. Then where you go, I've gone Congo, Uzbekistan.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

Yeah, I've gone the exact same. Exact same.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

A lot of these it's like, I don't know. I'll just Group out. England. Yeah. Croatia. No. Ghana. Yeah. Panama. You've had Panama second.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

No, no, no, no. Sorry. I've had England, Ghana, Croatia, Panama. Panama ain't getting a point, mate.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Okay, right. Let's quickly bang through our third best place team.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

So I've had uh Croatia, South Korea, Norway, Overcoast, Sweden, Paraguay, Scotland, Congo, Scotland.

SPEAKER_01 12:31

Scotland's voice.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

Sorry, Scotland over. Yeah, I've clicked the wrong page. Yeah, uh, Congo. Only because with that Congo one, they've got um what's it called? Uh bh b-b-bh. Let me find it a sec. Bear with me. Don't jump to Humboldt. They've got uh Uzbekistan in their group, and I do think they might just get a point against Colombia. So if they get like four points, then they'll be they might finish second then. No, I think Colombia will win against well, I don't know. Yeah, I think they might even get four. I think Portugal win all their games in that group.

SPEAKER_01 13:04

Oh but anyway, I've gone the US of A, Egypt, Overcoast, Svidan, Scotland, Qatar, Jordan, Ghana.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

You think Jordan will qualify for it?

SPEAKER_01 13:13

Heart ran away with it.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

So who's the teams that you haven't had in that one?

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Uh I don't know because I'll screw all my screenshots look fit in.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:21

I can't see. I ain't got Congo, I've not got South Africa, I've not got Saudi Arabia.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

Yeah, Saudi Arabia and Bosnia, New Zealand. Algeria.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

Can we keep going? Right then, so your round of 32 top game.

SPEAKER_00 13:32

Right, should I just do my 32?

SPEAKER_01 13:34

No, you might as well because every you've got that's a screenshot.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

Oh right then, more top two of the first yeah, okay. I'll show them up here anyway. They'll be here on the screen somewhere. So Dada.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

Did you ever see that?

SPEAKER_00 13:48

No.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

It's fucking brilliant. Remember Barney, the dinosaur? Yeah. So he's him and he's with loads of kids, and he does this thing and a rainbow comes up and he goes, dada. So me and all the kids do it, and then we'll go dada.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

That's fucking weird. I prefer the Rafa Benitas one. One score sports. I don't know, it's the way that you've done that with the rainbow when Rafa Bonitas was that and said coming up next. So my one was Ecuador versus Paraguay. What was your top game? Yeah, for some reason. Okay. Uh I went with Ecuador to beat Paraguay. And then my next one would be France, Sweden, and obviously France.

SPEAKER_01 14:23

So my top game was Germany-USA. I had Germany, and then I had France, Sweden, France.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

Oh, nice. Um, next one, Czech Republic, Canada. I went with Canada.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

I feel sorry for you having to do this editing.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

I know, yeah, it's alright then.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

You're my idea, it's hard to do this.

SPEAKER_00 14:38

No mind. Um, yeah, so Canada to beat Czech Republic and then I've had Japan to beat Morocco. That was a tough one for me.

SPEAKER_01 14:44

Yeah, mine are all these are completely different. So mine uh next to are Colombia, Croatia, I had Croatia, and then Espana against Algeria, and I had Espana.

SPEAKER_00 14:54

Yeah, they're weird how it's all modelled up.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

I think because of how we've we've we've not had the same, so the setups obviously. Yeah, probably. Definitely.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

Well, yeah, obviously. Um Colombia versus Ghana, I went with Colombia, and then Espana to be Austria.

SPEAKER_01 15:10

I had Paraguay, Qatar, uh, and then Paraguay, and then Belgium, Jordan, unfortunately, Belgium.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

Oh, so the heart didn't go.

SPEAKER_01 15:18

No, sometimes logic's just too strong. Yeah. This is gonna be, I've got this is like a boring episode, by the way. This is gonna be such a shit episode.

SPEAKER_00 15:28

Yeah, I know, but I want to get it up there so we can look back on it.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

No, I know, just next one.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

I've gone Turkey, Norway, uh Norway, obviously, and then Belgium, South Korea, and Belgium win.

SPEAKER_01 15:41

I had uh Brazil, Japan, and I had Brazil, and then Ecuador, Norway, and I had Norway. Then I had Korea, Scotland, for the next one Mars of Karen Gunner as I'm talking. Korea, Scotland, I had Scotland, England, Ivory Coast, England, you know that sets up in the next one.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

So I went I've had Brazil and Holland in one of mine. Which I I was gonna go to Holland, you know, but then I just thought I think Brazil might also have a bit too much for them. So I went with Brazil, Germany, Senegal. You can guess who I've had. Senegal. Yeah, I think they'll smash the Germans. Mexico, Scotland, I've had Mexico. England just keep reading off the zone. Yeah, yeah. England, um I can't think of the bloody the Dominican Republic of Congo. I was trying to say it all in one. I've had England. Should have said Congo. Yeah, I know. Uh Argentina versus Uruguay, I've had Argentina. Oh, we've actually got one in Okay. And then USA, Egypt, I've gone with USA.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

So I've got Argentina, Uruguay, I've gone to Argentina, and then I had Turkey, Iran, I went with Iran.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

You think Iran a bit Turkey?

SPEAKER_01 16:48

I think so.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Back in them. Considering they're gonna have no fans either in the ground. So? It plays a big part, doesn't it? I mean it's not. No? Yeah, it does. No, don't. Not for Tottenham, obviously. That was uncalled for, I'm very sorry. That was uncalled for. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

Don't need shit from the most one of the most relegated teams in the country.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

Also one of the most promoted.

SPEAKER_01 17:14

Yeah, and one of the least domesticated. Yeah, fairs. Yeah, it shouldn't fuck all. Come on, carry on. Switzerland, Egypt. I wish you'd fucking jump.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

Switzerland, Egypt.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Switzerland, Egypt, I've got Switzerland and then uh Portugal, Ghana, and I went for Ghana. Round of 16.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

Oh, woo woo woo. I've got two left, but first, you've had Ghana to beat Portugal.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

No, I said Portugal, Ghana had Portugal.

SPEAKER_00 17:36

I could have said you should.

SPEAKER_01 17:37

Oh, well I apologise, no, I had Portugal.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Uh my last two were Switzerland, Ivy Coast. I've had Overcoast, and then Portugal, Croatia, I had Portugal. Round of 16.

SPEAKER_01 17:45

Well, let's just bash through them all now because I feel like yeah, yeah, I feel like we've done this completely the wrong way around. Yeah. Right, so my round of 16, it starts with Germany against France, France obviously, then Mexico, Netherlands, Netherlands. Croatia, Espana, Espana. Paraguay, Belgium, Belgium. Brazil, Norway, Brazil. England, Scotland.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

Oh wow. I don't know. That'd be a great game.

SPEAKER_01 18:09

England. Argentina, Iran. Unfortunately, Iran go out at this point. I don't know. I just I don't know. You know, when you look at it, you're just like, no, I fancy him, I'll fancy him. Like you with Senegal. Yeah. Um is that your last one? And then no, and then Switzerland, Portugal.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

Oh the last one.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

And I had Portugal.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

Oh, well, I've got France, Ecuador, France, Japan, Canada, I've had Japan, Colombia, Spain, I've had Spain, Norway, Belgium, I've had Belgium, Brazil, Senegal, I've had Brazil, England, Mexico, I've had England, but that's a Mexico City Stadium. If that was to happen, that'd be tough. Um Argentina, USA, I've had Argentina, Portugal over the coast, I've had Portugal. Court finals, right? We're getting to the best bit now. Fuck me, that was boring. But yeah. We do apologise.

SPEAKER_01 18:58

Yeah, this is this was a last I've been on holiday. This is like a last minute. We need to get a walk-up thing out, so there it could have been structured a lot better, but there's only about fucking 60 of you that watch this on a good day, so yeah, and I doubt you got past the 30 seconds minute before we get to this. So we're just rambling into it. Just talking to ourselves, we're just rambling to each other at this point. Right then. Maybe Chris, I might get a message from Chris or Donaldson or something. No, no, I was there. Uh right, so quarter finals, France, Netherlands, France, Spain, Belgium, Spain, Brazil, England, England. Nice. Argentina, Portugal. I actually changed my mind on this one. Okay. And I went Portugal. You think Okay, alright. Yeah, I went, I went, um I went That's funny you say that. I went Argentina at first, and then I went back and I thought, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

Nah, that's funny you say that. So I've had France, Japan, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_01 19:47

If you Portugal just think Portugal's team, they're better set. I know, and like I know that everyone's going, oh well the Argentina will they'll carry it through for Messi. They've done it. Messi's gonna be. They've already done it, yeah. And they're an aging squad.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

Yeah, 100%. So I've had France, Japan, unfortunately, the samurais are out. Gone with France, Spain, Norway, I've had Spain, England, Brazil, I've had England, Argentina, Portugal, I've done the exact same thing as you. It's the same thought process, exactly the same. Yeah, sure. Portugal.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

It made a thing a lot, a lot. I don't know if it'll if it'll work, but Argentina Right. So what I was gonna say before so rudely interrupted. Rudely interrupted yourself. Um how Argentina carried through Argentina for Messi in the last World Cup, a lot of people say because they weren't, they weren't the best team. I'd like to think that maybe Portugal will try and do the same for Ronaldo and they've got a good Joel Mendes, they've got Vitina, they've got mate, they've just stacked Bernardo Silver's Unreal.

SPEAKER_00 20:47

They're just stacked, so I think they're a great fucking team. So yeah, they can actually do it. Semi-final, you've got France, Spain, yeah?

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Well, I know my first one is actually England-Portugal.

SPEAKER_00 20:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

England.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

You had England to beat Portugal, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

Like I've said multiple times, my heart ran away with it.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

Okay, I'd love to see who wins it.

SPEAKER_01 21:05

France, Espana.

SPEAKER_00 21:06

You're gonna say Spain. Spain. 100%, I knew it. I've had France, Spain, and I've gone with France.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

I've seen a lot of things, right, and I agree with it 100%. France will win it if their egos don't take over.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

100%. They've got to have it's it's all about the camp, I think, for them, and if there's no argument. Yeah, have you seen the biggest? They've got too much going on at French.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

Have you seen all the stuff about um Ngolo Kante and Mbappe in the pictures of them? So like they were training and every everyone welcome beating and Mbappe was shaking everyone's hand, and then Gailo Kala completely blanked him.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

Apparently, there's tensions in in the French camp. Fuck, imagine though, they don't even make out of the group. Because they've got they've got the group of death.

SPEAKER_01 21:48

The thing is what you say, and like I'll say this to you, and you'll you'll go well, obviously, but if you would say who would you rather have in your team, Kante or Mbappe, I don't think. As clear as everyone going on Bape. I don't think he's that when you sit down and you really think about it. Who would you rather have?

SPEAKER_00 22:06

I'd rather have Kanta. Yeah, he's a work called. Yeah, who would you rather have? Especially when you've got Dembele who can play up front instead. Mbappe's a lot of shit has been going on, and a lot of people are wondering.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

Do I Elise and Dembele?

SPEAKER_00 22:18

That's a fucking that's a PSG fucking lineup apart from apart from the English lad. Yeah, the English lad who's playing France. The Redding player. So I had England, Portugal in my semis, and I went with Portugal. Portugal. I think Portugal. So I've gone Portugal, France final, you've gone Portugal, Spain final. England, Spain.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

England, Spain, repeated the Euros.

SPEAKER_00 22:39

Euros. Ooh.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

So I obviously.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

You've gone England. Have you gone England to win? Oh yeah. Ah, you've gone Spain.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

Spain. I'd love it. I'd love it, but I think I do think there's no egos in that team. Well, you're mal, but his ego doesn't affect his football. No, he's a he's a balend. He's a balend. But he's just a balended like he thinks he's fucking Johnny Big Bollo's, but he's he backs it up, he plays football. I don't you don't you haven't heard anything about a Barcelona or uh Spain of him carrying his ego over. Like no but Barcelona Barcelona fans don't want him got the like he's already already a legend, do you know what I mean? Where like we were saying before, apparently Real Madrid want to get well a legend won him out and everything. Yeah, there was there's polls in there where they've all yeah, 75 million people.

SPEAKER_00 23:25

Yeah, that's mental. 75 million people. 75 million people that have clicked on that poll and wanted him out. That's not the whole that's not the everyone got on the bandwagon, then they in the world. That's gotta be worldwide. Well, there's like seven billion people on the planet, mate.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

I guarantee that, but there's not 75 million people in Spain clicking on the plane.

SPEAKER_00 23:41

No, no, no of course not.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

But there's that's what I mean. That that would have been worldwide. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

And more in a France. Oh Viva France, eh? France.

SPEAKER_01 23:49

But if I can say if they if they can get rid of that ego, they are the yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:53

Yeah, I mean, I just think sometimes having too much talent overweighs the football and the field. Sometimes you need though Argentina when they won it for Messi. You just said they weren't really a good squad, PSG, but they were all together. PSG when they had Well, yeah, they had Messi, fucking Neymar, Mbappe, and they didn't win fuck all. And then got rid of it, had a complete revamp, and now they're absolutely smashing it.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

Alright, so that's the Luis Enrique though. Have you seen what Luis Enrique come out and said when uh Mbappe was there? He was saying about how Mbappe is a problem, you don't defend any of this.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

No, he's he's like ranked zero in the whole of Europe for defensive contributions as well. That's fact. There's keepers that have got a better, like defense obviously as a but I mean like on the field, like coming out rushing out mental. So whoever you had then for like the awards. Yeah, I didn't do this, but yeah, but you can probably just think off the top of your head.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

Off the top of my head, uh top goal scorer.

SPEAKER_00 24:59

Because I know you won't guess mine.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

Top goal scorer, tell me yours, come back to me.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

So I've gone with Spain's uh Miguel O Yarzebel.

SPEAKER_01 25:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

I just think because if Spain do go for quite far and he's gonna be their number one striker, he gets some goals for Spain as well.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

If Mbappe's ego's in check, you you can't look past him. His record's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_00 25:24

Yeah, he is in the World Cup, but he it depends. Harry Kane. Harry Kane's a shout. Bagging goals. Harlan's a shout, but it depends again how about how far they go in the competition.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

I'll go Kane. Because I think England might go quite far, so I'll go Kane.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

Yeah. So you've gone Kane, I've gone Mikhail O'Yarazabal. Yeah. And then for the player of the tournament. I was just about to say it's got to be Elise, eh? He's fucking unreal.

SPEAKER_01 25:53

He's so angry that he chose France.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

He's on fucking fire as well. Oh man, what's wrong? He's just fucking banging goals in left right and centre. He got voted Bundesliga player of the year as well.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

Over Kane, who's have you seen the E got he got uh he won the France Award for best player abroad? Yeah, so even an award. Yeah, so France have awards and it's the best French player abroad. So best French player, obviously not playing in France.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

That's mental.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

And he's English.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

Oh yeah, he is. It does my head in, because we could have had an absolute stack team. Defence would have been what all over the shop still, but yeah, well that's the only thing with England for me, is our defence is never amazing. Yeah. Quick one on England. Just a quick one.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

Ingalengay.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

The bat line, do you reckon that's because obviously Tuchel plays counter-attacking football. So we're gonna be on the bat foot quite a lot. Do you reckon that's gonna be like um who do you reckon is now done for the defence? I think I've now done is I think it's easy.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

I think Spence will start Nah. He likes versatility. He loves versatility in the case there. I've swallowed a it's either a pube or a beard head.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

Probably a pube. No, I don't think Spence does.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

My little beardheads come off, or they're molten everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 27:10

You think he starts over a roley? Yeah, no way.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

I think so. Um I think so. I think only could only cause I could be wrong. Do I think that Spencer started over a Raleigh? Absolutely not. But Spencer's got a bit more experience. Fucking hell. And um look fucking choking on a beard air. Oh my god. Sorry. Um, yeah, he likes versatility though, doesn't he? Too cool. And and Spencer can play right, left, and a bit further forward.

SPEAKER_00 27:48

Right back to Reese James.

SPEAKER_01 27:50

Right back, no doubt, Reese James. Gotta be, he's gotta be best right back in the world on his day at the minute. If he's fully fit and he's playing well, he's best right back in the world.

SPEAKER_00 27:57

I just hope he don't go down in like the first fucking couple of games in the group stage because that's gonna be a big hit. But then again, you like you say you've got Jed Spencer who can fill in for him.

SPEAKER_01 28:04

Um and then set about you going Gaye, yeah, Gaye and Conza, but I think he'll start Stones.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

I don't mind listen, I don't mind it. If he's fully fit, I don't mind it. And you've got Gaye who cover the pace on him as well, so yeah. Pickford in the sticks, Pickford in the sticks, dude. I was listening, everyone's saying, how's how who'd you start? Jude or Rogers. Personally here we go! No, personally, bro. I'd start him next to Royce and have Rogers. There's no way I'd prefer Jude as an eight or a six. Like he can play in that because obviously Royce is a six, yeah. Jude can play in that. I would much much prefer him playing off another midfielder. Rogers has been on fire this year, there's no doubt about it. And his assists and his goals has been very he's been very contributed to Aston Ville, burns me to say, but he's been great. Why not have both of them? Would you rather in the middle Royce and Anderson or Mainu and and Royce or Jude and Royce?

SPEAKER_01 29:07

We'll have this conversation. I know I I agree I agree. I'd have uh Morgan Rogers more in a like a 10, floating ten, and then you'd have um Royce and Jude in the middle can just be. You'd have Royce in the middle, yeah. You'd have Jude's more central and then Royce a bit further back.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:20

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you're playing, you're then your top three, you're playing unfortunately Saka.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

I don't think he'll play a lot, you know, because he's got an injury. Saka, Kane, Rashford. It's gotta be Rashford over Gordon, isn't it? Yeah, it's gotta be. What a bass line of things. Did you see his whole lot against um New Zealand, Gordon? I don't know. Fuck me, mate. He was shocking. Fell asleep watching it. He was fucking shocking, absolutely terrible. Yeah, I'd rather take Rio than Gordon. Oh mate, all day long, Ingamoa. Ingamoa