00:00What happened with Argentina for this game?
00:02I think, you know, Escaloni is a very smart coach.
00:06It is indeed.
00:07He's, you know, won them two Copa Americas, one World Cup final,
00:10and they brought up, you know, to another World Cup final.
00:13So I think their game plan going into it was that we understand that Spain is better than us.
00:20Their defense is going to lock us up like they did.
00:23In any attempt that they had, the defense locked them up.
00:25So I think their strategy was more, let's just not let them score.
00:30Because if they score, if Spain scores one goal, the game's over.
00:33I doubt Argentina would be able to score.
00:35So Argentina also played defensively.
00:37Divu came out clutch.
00:38Very clutch.
00:39And, you know, Divu is a goalkeeper that became really famous last season.
00:43Yeah.
00:43Last World Cup.
00:44Yeah, last World Cup, yeah.
00:45And also very infamous at the same time.
00:48Not a lot of popularity.
00:49There's some attitudes that people didn't read the right way.
00:53But I feel like yesterday he actually overcome all of it and showed that he is the type of player
00:58that shows up in a final.
01:00Shows up in a final.
01:01And we've seen Divu kind of go from last World Cup being this, like, you know, guy, villain, like, super
01:08cocky, like, super confident.
01:11And now he's just very humble and he's just much more quiet on the field.
01:16Also, I think that, you know, not having those dream-like seasons, the last two tournaments, also kind of, like,
01:22humbled him to come into the World Cup and work harder.
01:26Because in the final, for me, he was one, if not the best player, Tagliafico.
01:31Yeah.
01:31As well, with a great defensive effort throughout.
01:33And let's talk about the other side of the equation.
01:37Let's talk about Spain.
01:38Yeah.
01:39Because this is a little trivia fact for you guys at home.
01:45Rodri, the MVP of the World Cup, del Balón de Oro de la Copa del Mundo, is the first time
01:50that MVP wins the award without giving an assist or scoring a goal.
01:55Wow.
01:56He just makes a difference on the field through his passes and through his energy as a player.
02:01He also won the Ballon d'Or, yeah, I think it was last year as well.
02:05Yeah, no, he's a great player.
02:07Spain, something that I noticed about Spain was that usually on the wings, teams will do 2v1s on, you know,
02:14Messi, on Nico Gonzalez, any winger.
02:19Spain was doing a 3v1 every single time on the outside, giving Argentina no chance to even get a smidge
02:26of an attack.
02:27Yeah.
02:27So it was incredible to see how it seemed like there was 22 players on the field for Spain only,
02:34not 11.
02:35And I think that also, some people read this as a boring style of play, but just the way they
02:41move the ball so quickly, so effortlessly, without a hurry to score, right?
02:49Like they're never in a hurry to go to the last third.
02:52They're never in a hurry to break the lines.
02:54They're very comfortable holding the ball.
02:56And, you know, just the stats talk about it, right?
02:59Like we see 67% out, pull the stats in a little bit, but just to see that it was
03:05around 67% possession in Spain, every column in the stats was lopsided to Spain's side.
03:12Yeah.
03:12Do you think that this is the passing of the torch to a whole new generation?
03:16Because if you think about it, Spain is, I think, is the third youngest team in the World Cup and
03:22they won.
03:23So meaning that they probably have a good amount, probably two World Cup cycles ahead of them being the best.
03:28I think they have a very bright future.
03:32I mean, you see Pedri and Ferran Torres getting subbed into a World Cup final.
03:36Those are two of the best players in La Liga right now.
03:39So that tells you how stacked their roster is.
03:42But, I mean, you never know.
03:44You never know with teams.
03:45They can be at a high and then it can get to them mentally and they don't perform in the
03:49Euros and then they don't perform in the next World Cup.
03:52It really depends how much they want it.
03:54I just pulled up the stats, my friends, for you guys at home.
03:57So the momentum that we're putting on screen, Noah, it was very clear that Spain dominated.
04:03There was some bright moments for Argentina towards the end of the game where they almost had a goal in
04:10the dying minutes of the extra time,
04:11which could have confirmed that, you know, the heroics of the tournament.
04:17Next in the show, we're going to continue, you know, talking about the journey of both Spain and Argentina to
04:23the final.
04:24And also the standout players and teams that we have.
04:28Noah, there's so many new players and so many new teams.
04:31Who was your favorite unknown player from the World Cup?
04:37Unknown player, I would say.
04:40Kind of like I was not familiar with your game.
04:44I mean, on Spain or Argentina?
04:47Oh, in general, at large, in the World Cup, yes.
04:50I have to think about it.
04:52You know, a player that I didn't know much about before the World Cup was Almada on Argentina.
04:57Yeah.
04:57Very, very good player.
04:58I know he plays on Atletico Madrid, but I mean, when he got on the field, he had so much
05:03confidence.
05:04And he was that kind of creative player we needed in very tough matches that we ended up winning.
05:09So Almada, very young.
05:10The future is bright for Argentina.
05:12So bright.
05:12Atletico Paz is a great player.
05:14You know, Enzo Fernandes, Lautaro still has plenty of games ahead of him.
05:20So I feel like Argentina, it's definitely going to go through a process of renewal.
05:25Now, Messi, most likely that has been, probably he will have one more game.
05:30Yeah.
05:30A proper goodbye in Argentina with all the people celebrating all of his achievements.
05:34But the expectation is that Argentina will go through a real...
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