00:00Still recovering from the final yesterday, Noah, it was a tough game, Argentina was not able to defeat Spain on
00:07a game that compared to Saturday game between France and England, that was a festival of goals where each team
00:15had a half to themselves, then we saw a game that as predicted was very, very hard fought, not with
00:22a lot of opportunities for goal, Argentina didn't record a single attempt on goal, it's the first time on a
00:28final that a team doesn't attempt on a goal.
00:32What happened with Argentina for this game?
00:34I think Escaloni is a very smart coach.
00:38It is indeed.
00:39He's won them two Copa Americas, one World Cup final, and they brought it to another World Cup final, so
00:45I think their game plan going into it was that we understand that Spain is better than us, their defense
00:52is going to lock us up like they did, in any attempt that they had, the defense locked them up,
00:57so I think their strategy was more,
01:00let's just not let them score, because if they score, if Spain scores one goal, the game's over, I doubt
01:06Argentina would be able to score, so Argentina also played in the defensive.
01:09Very clutch.
01:10Divu had one of, and you know, Divu is a goalkeeper that became really famous last season, last World Cup.
01:16Yeah, last World Cup, yeah.
01:17And also very infamous at the same time, not a lot of popularity, there's some attitude that people didn't read
01:23the right way, but I feel like yesterday he actually overcome all of it and showed that he is the
01:30type of player that shows up in a final.
01:33And we've seen Divu kind of go from last World Cup being this, like, you know, guy, villain, like, super
01:40cocky, like, super confident, and now he's just very humble, and he's just much more quiet on the field.
01:47Also, I think that, you know, not having those dream-like seasons, the last two tournaments, also kind of, like,
01:54humbled him to come into the World Cup and work harder, because in the final, for me, he was one
02:00of, if not the best player, Tagliafico.
02:03Yeah, as well, with a great defensive effort throughout, and let's talk about the other side of the equation, let's
02:09talk about Spain, because this, this is a, this is a little trivia fact for you guys at home.
02:17Rodri, the MVP of the World Cup, del BalĂłn de Oro de la Copa del Mundo, is the first time
02:22that MVP wins the award without giving an assist or scoring a goal.
02:27Wow.
02:28He just makes a difference on the field through his passes and through his energy as a player.
02:33He also won the Ballon d'Or, yeah, I think it was last year as well.
02:37Yeah, no, he's a great player.
02:39Spain, something that I noticed about Spain was that usually on the wings, teams will do 2v1s on, you know,
02:46Messi, on Nico Gonzalez, any winger.
02:51Spain was doing a 3v1 every single time on the outside, giving Argentina no chance to even get a smidge
02:58of an attack.
02:59Yeah.
02:59So it was incredible to see how, it seemed like there was 22 players on the field, for Spain only,
03:06not 11.
03:07I think that also, some people read this as a boring style of play, but just the way they move
03:13the ball so quickly, so effortlessly, without a hurry to score, right?
03:21Like, they're never in a hurry to go to the last third, they're never in a hurry to break the
03:25lines, they're very comfortable holding the ball, and, you know, just the stats talk about it, right?
03:31Like, we see 67% out, pull the stats in a little bit, but just to see that it was
03:37around 67% possession in Spain, every column in the stats was lopsided to Spain's side.
03:44Yeah.
03:44Do you think that this is the passing of the torch to a whole new generation?
03:48Because if you think about it, Spain is, I think, is the third youngest team in the World Cup, and
03:54they won.
03:55So meaning that they probably have a good amount, probably two World Cup cycles ahead of them being the best.
04:00I think they have a very bright future, I mean, you see Pedri and Ferran Torres getting subbed into a
04:07World Cup final, those are two of the best players in La Liga right now, so that tells you how
04:12stacked their roster is, but, I mean, you never know.
04:16You never know with teams, they can be at a high, and then it can get to them mentally, and
04:20they don't perform in the Euros, and then they don't perform in the next World Cup.
04:24It really depends how much they want it.
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