00:00to look at this argentina's attack against spain's defense that's great yep i got a bunch of
00:06statistics and stuff that i'm going to throw at you please do not yet okay can you show the picture
00:1419 years ago please of baby yamin lamin yamal and lino messi i saw this and i asked four different
00:25producers to confirm that it was real oh yeah apparently yamal's family as part of a unicef
00:31charity they won this photo shoot that is messy with a baby bathing a baby lamin yamal what stunning
00:41that that's a world cup preview photo that doesn't make any sense like there's so like there's going
00:48to be all sorts of you know lamal could have played for morocco and messi could have played
00:53for spain and now messi's on argentina and yamal is on spain and spain is the favorites but messi's
01:00trying to go back to back but like what it's unbelievable what the passing of the torch
01:05between the goat and maybe a future go it it is a movie script it really is and it's it's
01:12funny when
01:13you see i think that it's that is extremely ironic the ultimate irony is the fact that lamin yamal
01:22turned out to be such an unbelievable player and a player very similar to lino messi like lamin yamal
01:31could have been a center back for sure he ended up being a stunningly talented left-footed inverted
01:38winger who goes in on that left foot and goes on these mazy dribbling runs it is hard to believe
01:44that that picture is real but not just that the fact that yamal turned out to be the player that
01:50he is
01:50messi the player he is and now they're meeting in the world cup final in 2026 19 years later i
01:57don't
01:57know man really creepy well you're going to be asked about it a bunch on the shows between now
02:02and sunday so i take great pride in being able to ask you first who you got
02:10you know what danny in the semi-final i had france and the other semi in this semi-final i
02:16had england
02:17i'm kind of like nick right i got a little like kiss of death about me in terms of who
02:22i pick
02:24uh i find it so difficult to pick against argentina at this point in time spain has been
02:31one of the best teams in the tournament the way that they have played the way that they have
02:36dominated games the way that they absolutely destroyed the french national team was
02:43the performance of the world cup for me excellent i i just how can you pick against argentina right
02:51now i'll stay tuned they absolutely have something weird in in the ether that is willing them to
03:00victory they have the greatest player that's ever lived i just i think i think spain is going to
03:07control large portions of that game i don't think argentina is going to concede a penalty in the way
03:12that the french national team did but i i don't know man i don't know there's just something about
03:18argentina right now that feels inevitable and there's not a whole lot of analysis that goes
03:22into it because my analysis of argentina is that they don't look particularly great they don't play
03:28particularly well they don't really have anyone who makes a big difference creatively other than
03:33leonel messi and yet four games in a row now they just continue to do what they do i i'm
03:40leaning
03:40towards argentina but i reserve the right to change my mind as the game gets closer oh you're becoming a
03:46professional take smith this video can go out of your game of you picking argentina then later on you
03:52pick spain and then you could just post whichever one was correct exactly you're learning how it goes
03:57listen i picked spain before the tournament i will stick with it this is spectacular stuff though like
04:03if you put up the side by side of how like how these teams yeah got here it is argentina
04:09with the most
04:11goals and spain with the least the least goals allowed right so i said it in the france spain game
04:18styles make fights great offense against great defense i went with the great defense and it was the
04:24team that i had picked before the tournament so i'm not going to go against it we have a we
04:29are
04:29potentially looking at the greatest defense in the history of the world's cup we are looking at the
04:34greatest defense well listen as of now right three champions have allowed two goals total in the
04:40tournament spain has already played that number of games they have an extra one because this tournament
04:44has expanded and they've allowed one so if they shut out argentina to win the world's cup they will
04:50literally figure they will officially be the greatest defense in the history of the world's cup
04:54but also one of these streaks is going to have to end dax yeah this is a fun one this
05:00is this is spain
05:02with the record for international consecutive international matches without a loss at 37 and now argentina
05:10their world's cup streak they just don't lose they don't lose neither of these teams lose so it spain
05:16is overall argentina's in the world's cup we'll see you in the final and oh yeah there's no it's
05:22no big deal because of jamal and messi's history messi's history with basically everyone on spain
05:28from his time at barcelona it's it's too good to be true spain is the better team spain should be
05:33the favorite spain will be the favorite spain is going to dominate large portions of this game
05:39just argentina like what they're doing is unquantifiable once we went up
05:44one oh we just seem to try to hold on and at this level it's not enough you don't have
05:49to
05:49be able to break code to see what he's talking about there 100 and they knew when they were on
05:55the field at the time they had 11 players within 20 yards of their own goal that was never going
06:01to
06:01be successful i would have loved to see i would love to see the players on the field take a
06:06little
06:06bit more initiative to try to get their lines a little bit higher but it's really difficult to do
06:10that as a player in a loud stadium when you have a very good team putting you under a ton
06:15of pressure
06:15you can feel the pain in harry kane's voice when he talks about that because again they were fairly
06:23comfortable for large portions of the game defensively in their normal shape in their
06:28normal setup declan rice and elliot anderson were tremendous jed spence was one of the best players on
06:35the field being able to defend 1v1 out wide and so again you go defensive too early you always are
06:43going to invite shot after shot cross after cross and when you have heavy legs when mentally you're a
06:50little bit tired it becomes so much more difficult to defend in those moments until eventually the dam is
06:56going to break and again you counteract that with what we saw from spain it was composed it was controlled
07:02it was no panic they defended brilliantly and then they took the sting out of the game with possession
07:07if england would have done that i certainly think they would have given themselves a better chance to
07:11win the game seven shots and two goals allowed by england in the 69th minute or later so in terms
07:19of an
07:20even game that was kind of england was in control they're up 1-0 but also just it felt like
07:24a very fair
07:25match going back and forth then for the last 20 minutes plus stoppage time it was totally dominated by
07:31totally dominant and by the way if it wasn't for the post and jordan pickford making some excellent
07:36saves pickford was great could have been four could have been three four five i mean it was just
07:41again thomas tuchel is going to have nightmares about this for a very long time now the drought for
07:46england continues and it's not coming home english soccer fans probably not going to let tuchel uh
07:52forgive this forget this one anytime soon
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