About this episode

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss Italy's World Cup elimination and other soccer highlights.

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss a nightmare for Italy as their loss on penalties to Bosnia & Herzegovina ruled them out of a third-straight World Cup. The guys also get into England’s tactical disaster against Japan, Sweden’s late run to the World Cup and a particularly impressive performance from Lionel Messi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hosts: Gab Marcotti, Julien Laurens

Topics covered

• World Cup
• soccer
• penalty shootout
• tactics
• performance
• national teams

Keywords

• World Cup
• Italy
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• England
• Japan
• Sweden
• Lionel Messi
• penalties
• soccer tactics

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Places: Italy, Bosnia & Herzegovina, England, Japan, Sweden

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