00:01Messi extends his lead in the golden boot race. Eight so far. Mbappe and Holland have seven. Harry Kane has
00:10six. But they've all been quality. Dembele, Oyarzabal and Jude have four apiece. We'll start with you, Dax. Who do
00:20you think wins it? And bonus question. I'll wait for the bonus question. The bonus question is interesting.
00:28Mr. World Cup knockout round himself, Kylian Mbappe. I have France winning the whole tournament. Meaning I have France playing
00:37more games than Argentina. I have France playing more games than Norway. So I think the biggest challenger to that
00:47title, if my bracket is to hold true, would actually be Harry Kane.
00:52Because he has France basically doing your prediction. If I'm basing it off that, which I am, I do believe
01:00Mbappe is going to win it. And this might sound contradictory, but I do believe having other world class attacking
01:08players around you opens up space for you.
01:10Classic. Two great wide receivers theory.
01:14Yeah, and I think it absolutely is pertinent for this French national team now, because I believe Mbappe can score
01:20goals in a myriad of different ways.
01:23And he isn't the physical profile that Harry Kane and Erling Haaland are. He isn't the, let's call it, maybe
01:29all-round special player that Lionel Messi is.
01:33But he is an out-and-out goal scorer. And this is where he has, I think, adapted in his
01:37career.
01:37This was not the most impressive one.
01:39No, no, no. And if you're going to give him layups, then he's obviously going to take them.
01:44But he can score a goal in so many different ways. And why I believe that he's going to win
01:50the Golden Boot, because France is going to win the tournament.
01:52He can do things like that 1v1 that other players simply can't.
01:56Haaland doesn't score goals like that. Kane doesn't really score goals like that. Messi, at times, he still likes to
02:02go 1v1 and score goals like that.
02:04But a lot of the other players are relying on service and relying on teammates opening up space for them.
02:09I think Mbappe is the favorite to win it.
02:11I hope you're right, because I really like Mbappe. I want him to get it.
02:14He's obviously going to end up, well, barring injury and stuff, being the World Cup all-time leading goal scorer.
02:22But I'm going to go with Messi, because they have the easier path.
02:29Like, Mbappe, they've got to play Spain.
02:31And how many goals are they going to score in that game, win or lose?
02:38Messi, I just think, has the easier path.
02:41And so I do think he'll end up winning it.
02:45I think Messi locks it up this weekend.
02:49I think Messi scores two this weekend.
02:52Haaland is knocked out of the tournament this weekend.
02:55So he's gone.
02:58I don't think Kane is going to score five more this tournament.
03:03The tiebreaker is assists.
03:06Messi is in good position on that front.
03:08And I think, you know, Hakimi and Morocco's entire, not their entire focus, but a focus of trying to slow
03:16down Mbappe.
03:17We talked about Spain, which hasn't allowed a goal.
03:21Meanwhile, Messi gets Switzerland again.
03:24Credit to Switzerland.
03:25But I think he is, I think he could get two this weekend and ten just wins it.
03:29Like, even if he doesn't make the final, Mbappe can't get to 11.
03:34Because Messi's going to be ahead of him in assists, I think.
03:37It's not a guarantee, but probably.
03:39I also just, can we show the two golden boot graphics I have?
03:44One is, show whichever one you want first, us.
03:46I don't really care.
03:48So, again, this is the last six golden boot winners.
03:52The fact that eight has been good enough to win at every World Cup this century, and a guy already
03:59has eight.
04:00It's just, like, somebody could get eight and not finish podium in this World Cup for golden boot.
04:08Yeah.
04:08And then.
04:09More games.
04:10Well, one more.
04:12The extra game, I agree, Drew.
04:13The extra game definitely plays a part.
04:15But not yet.
04:16It's not like, you know what I mean?
04:17Like, the extra game has not impacted it yet, and here's the all-time race.
04:25I mean, again, Joust Fontaine has a sizable lead, and I understand this is, again, an extra game.
04:34This is where this would impact it.
04:36But that's on the board here.
04:39Oh, that he breaks the record.
04:40That he ties the record.
04:41I don't think he can get six more goals.
04:46He's got three games left, maximum.
04:47Well, looking at this graphic, the fact that you have three players that have gotten to double-digit goals in
04:53a World Cup,
04:54and you have arguably three or four in one World Cup that could realistically get there, is still a stunning
05:01display of quality.
05:02Well, here's the other thing.
05:03It has been 60 years since someone scored more than eight goals in a World Cup.
05:0960 years.
05:11I would, and I'm not, I'm excited about the more goals scoring.
05:16Like, I love it.
05:17But, and I'm not trying to poo-poo what the guys are doing.
05:20It's been great.
05:21But not only do you have an extra game, that extra game is against teams that might not even have
05:28been in the World Cup.
05:29Yes.
05:29And, you know, if it was still at 32 teams.
05:31No, that's definitely true.
05:32You heard it here.
05:33Brew hates Cape Verde.
05:34No, no, no.
05:35He hates Cape Verde.
05:37No, that's a fair, that's a fair point.
05:39You know what I mean?
05:40But also, I still love it.
05:41But also, those records are from when, if you look in the, a lot of these World Cup games were
05:47like six to four.
05:48Like, the game, the game was, has played very, soccer in the 60s was not that dissimilar from basketball in
05:54the 60s.
05:55Like, we're going up and down.
05:56We're scoring.
05:58By the way, you could pass it back to the goalkeeper, you could pick it up.
06:01Yeah.
06:02He's booted up a few more.
06:04Go, KW.
06:05Bonus question.
06:06It's best for soccer worldwide if who wins the Golden Goose.
06:10Messi.
06:11Messi just adds.
06:13Absolutely.
06:13The story that he is writing at his age right now is incredible, unfathomable, unthinkable.
06:21Pick any adjective you want.
06:23It's truly historic.
06:24Genuinely.
06:25Let me ask you, can I throw in something quick?
06:28Now, he's not in the running, but had Jamal been having like a great tournament, he was in the running.
06:34That would have been fascinating.
06:34Would that have been better if he would have?
06:36I think so.
06:37Yeah, I think so.
06:37He's kind of the guy.
06:38It's like, guess what?
06:39Guess who's taking the mantle from Messi?
06:41By the way.
06:42With one goal.
06:42Well, yeah, he's not.
06:43Payne is two goals away from tying Klosa at 16.
06:48Remember, Klosa was the all-time leader going into this tournament.
06:51And was the all-time leader for a long time.
06:53Harry Kane could end this tournament with more career World Cup goals than Klosa and be third all-time.
06:58This is the biggest loser of this tournament.
07:00Miroslav Klosa.
07:01We're going to lose you on the podium spot.
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