About this episode

The episode reviews the performances of nations after their first games in the World Cup.

Now that every nation at this summer's World Cup has played their first game, we take a look through who has impressed us, which favourites look red hot, the stars who have stood out, and which countries have serious questions to answer in their second game...

Topics covered

• World Cup
• football analysis
• team performance
• player highlights
• national teams

Keywords

• World Cup
• football
• first game
• team performance
• players
• national teams

Mentioned in this episode

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