June 27, 2024 • 9 mins
The knockout rounds are almost underway in the second-biggest international football tournament in the world.
The Round of 16 has been set in Euro 2024.
Sportstalk's D'Arcy Waldegrave is, at best, a casual football fan - so he got former All White Fred de Jong on the show for a more well-informed perspective on who's looking ready to win the whole thing.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We're joined now by former All White Fred Deyong as
we take a look at Yaron finally free. We got
through the chaos of qualifying and now there are sixteen.
That was a strange old time, wasn't it, the last
few days of all of this strangling of each other
try and get through to the top.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, how do you mate? It was?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
And that's the chaos at twenty four team competition brings
you because everyone's sort of the permutations around the third
place qualifiers right down to the last kick of the
last game virtually. And it was the upset this morning
of Georgia getting over the top of Portugal that really
(00:56):
tipped the balance in because prior to that we were
looking at an England Netherlands last sixteen game, and then
because of Georgia's it's all probably fallen at a little
bit easier for the Dutch and a little bit easier.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
For the English. So things like that.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
That's the upshot of having twenty four teams, which creates
a bit of chaos in itself.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Let's look at.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The games themselves and what we're head to because we've
got a couple of games on Sunday morning, couple on
Monday morning, a couple on Tuesday morning, a couple on
Wednesday morning, And unlike the initial few rounds, these games
don't clash, so you can actually watch all of them,
which is good. Switzerland, Italy, Germany, den Mark. There's a
(01:42):
lot to like in both of those fixtures.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Surely Freed Absolutely, the Swiss have been very good, you know.
They they have been probably one of the surprise packages
of the tournament on how.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well they've played.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
And you know they are in a difficult group with Germany, Hungary, Scotland.
They've navigated that through quite comfortably, and they come up
against an Italian team that.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
One of the most exciting games in.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
The history of the tournament, I think last kick of
the game, ninety eighth minute to get themselves, you know,
into second place in the group and you know, broke
Croatian hearts. But you know, that'll be a good game
and one that I think the Swiss will go in
with a heck of a lot of confidence because Italy
at aren't showing, haven't shown too much in a striking capacity.
(02:40):
Then the Germans have been probably one of the picks
of the tournament, very very very good, very fluid, and
I think they'll have too much firepower for a Danish
team that you know, has has played sort of well
in patches but hasn't really strung together a convincing performance
and also struggles to score goals. I think they only
(03:02):
scored two goals in the first three games. So yeah,
one that I think Germany will be very comfortable with.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The road home if they're bringing something whatever that might
be Slovakia in England's way four o'clock Monday morning. Difficult proposition.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
I think, but at the moment, anything's difficult for this
English team. They're they're just stuttering along. Everyone's waiting for
them to actually put in a performance that justifies their
favorites tag. Going into the tournament, they've been dour, slow, ponderous,
(03:44):
all these sort of adjectives to describe.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
The way they're playing the game.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
And unless they can sort of release the shackles and
get the best out of the quality of players that
they have on the pitch, then you know, then they're
going to come into more come in with more flak
from their supporters. Their coach is going to be pilloried
for from on high from back home in England. But
(04:10):
I think they'll still have too much for Slovakia.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Do you think Georgia can take some of their energy
from that win this morning and lay it down in
front of the Spanish?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, how good was it? How good was Georgia this
morning against Portugal? You know, that was tremend tremendous effort
from them, you know, do a die for them.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
They had to win. They did.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Spain probably the pick of the teams in the tournament
and Spain. I think we'll go through quite comfortably. But
you know, regardless of that, Georgia's had their first international tournament.
They've had a fantastic tournament and they can I think,
you know, Spain, Spain have been really good. They also
haven't scored many goals, you know, a couple of one
(04:50):
no wins.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And two two three one win. I think it was
at a tack.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
But yes, the Spain and Spain of you know, they
they strangle the life out of the game and I
think they'll have way too much quality for Georgia.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Hey, you got the next match, and we like these
these trains border matches. So we're talking about the French
taking on the Belgians. This should be fantastic, a melting
pot of styles, of classes of.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Players, absolutely, and I think the Belgians will be absolutely
kicking themselves that, you know, they finished second in the group,
a group that they probably were looking comfortably when the
draw was made to go yeah we should, we should
finish top of this this group. You know Slovakia remain
in Ukraine, they would have gone, well, we should definitely
(05:38):
should finish top. They've finished second and they've come up
against you know, co favorites France, and you know, I
think Belgium were kicking themselves absolutely, but what a matchup.
You know, I think the pick of the last sixteen
games because the French have have have also showne real quality.
(05:58):
They've got one of probably the best player in the
world and Mbappe although as noses are suffer suffered through
the tournament and you know they by rights they should
have too much quality for Belgium.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
But that will be.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
A really really, probably the highest quality game of the
last six thing.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
In Portugal, hoping that what happened today is not going
to affect them up against Slovenia seven o'clock Tuesday morning.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Yeah, it just shows you a like when a team
has already qualified, how just a little drop in quality,
a little drop in intensity really can bring them unstuck.
And Portugal are really poor against Georgia today and you
know they need they need a rocket. But you know
Slovenia who uh you know they are also a team
(06:52):
that weren't looking like they were going to qualify and
managed to do so with their nil draw against against
the English, so you know they'll be on on cloud nine.
Portugal should be too strong, but Slovenia showed showed quite
a lot against the English bar you know, maybe the
Portugugal kick into gear.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Netherlands should run all over the top of from absolutely
no doubt, and that's what we need.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
We were up again England. Romania is way better get
past them.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You're not still like going back to your Dutch roots
when you chan't say your fred.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
If you painted your head orange for this clash enough
or let's go to the last game of the Round
of sixteen Austria Turkey. Did anyone see that coming?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No one.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I don't think anyone would would have picked Austria in
a group with the Dutch and the French that Austria
would come top of the group.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But they have been excellent.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
They they it shows you what you can do when
you dare to attack and you dare to press and
you be brave with the ball.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And you know they've been.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Ralph Ranyak, the coach, has done a fantastic job with
that group of players and they fully deserve everything they've
got so far in the tournament because they've been probably
the standout team of the second tier so called second
tier nations in the Cup. And I think the low
Turkey have been, you know, have shown flashes. I think
Austria probably will edge that.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
If you can. Fred DeJong, can you put your clogs
in your tulips in your pocket and look across based
on current form, who do you like for the final?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I think coming out of so looking ahead to the semifinals,
you've probably got Netherlands or Austria against Italy or England.
So and then on the on the other side of that,
I would say, you know, you got a massive quarter final,
probably Germany Spain, so either I would probably pick the
(08:52):
Spanish against the French. On the other side in the semifinals.
Who's to say I would prior to the tournament. I
picked France to win the whole thing on on what
I've seen. Probably the Spanish the other form team of
the competition, but I would say a Spain England or
Spain Holland final would probably be the most likely.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
You can climb back in your windmill now, Thank you
very much for that, Fred de Young. Always a pleasure,
my friend. Do you look after yourself. Make sure you
drink plenty of water and have decent dozes during the
day so you can get through till Wednesday morning.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Thanks for your time there. Long nights, mate, and enjoyable cheers. Mate.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
For more from sports talk, listen live to News Talks.
It'd be from seven pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We're joined now by former All White Fred Deyong as
we take a look at Yaron finally free. We got
through the chaos of qualifying and now there are sixteen.
That was a strange old time, wasn't it, the last
few days of all of this strangling of each other
try and get through to the top.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, how do you mate? It was?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
And that's the chaos at twenty four team competition brings
you because everyone's sort of the permutations around the third
place qualifiers right down to the last kick of the
last game virtually. And it was the upset this morning
of Georgia getting over the top of Portugal that really
(00:56):
tipped the balance in because prior to that we were
looking at an England Netherlands last sixteen game, and then
because of Georgia's it's all probably fallen at a little
bit easier for the Dutch and a little bit easier.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
For the English. So things like that.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
That's the upshot of having twenty four teams, which creates
a bit of chaos in itself.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Let's look at.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The games themselves and what we're head to because we've
got a couple of games on Sunday morning, couple on
Monday morning, a couple on Tuesday morning, a couple on
Wednesday morning, And unlike the initial few rounds, these games
don't clash, so you can actually watch all of them,
which is good. Switzerland, Italy, Germany, den Mark. There's a
(01:42):
lot to like in both of those fixtures.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Surely Freed Absolutely, the Swiss have been very good, you know.
They they have been probably one of the surprise packages
of the tournament on how.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well they've played.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
And you know they are in a difficult group with Germany, Hungary, Scotland.
They've navigated that through quite comfortably, and they come up
against an Italian team that.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
One of the most exciting games in.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
The history of the tournament, I think last kick of
the game, ninety eighth minute to get themselves, you know,
into second place in the group and you know, broke
Croatian hearts. But you know, that'll be a good game
and one that I think the Swiss will go in
with a heck of a lot of confidence because Italy
at aren't showing, haven't shown too much in a striking capacity.
(02:40):
Then the Germans have been probably one of the picks
of the tournament, very very very good, very fluid, and
I think they'll have too much firepower for a Danish
team that you know, has has played sort of well
in patches but hasn't really strung together a convincing performance
and also struggles to score goals. I think they only
(03:02):
scored two goals in the first three games. So yeah,
one that I think Germany will be very comfortable with.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The road home if they're bringing something whatever that might
be Slovakia in England's way four o'clock Monday morning. Difficult proposition.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
I think, but at the moment, anything's difficult for this
English team. They're they're just stuttering along. Everyone's waiting for
them to actually put in a performance that justifies their
favorites tag. Going into the tournament, they've been dour, slow, ponderous,
(03:44):
all these sort of adjectives to describe.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
The way they're playing the game.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
And unless they can sort of release the shackles and
get the best out of the quality of players that
they have on the pitch, then you know, then they're
going to come into more come in with more flak
from their supporters. Their coach is going to be pilloried
for from on high from back home in England. But
(04:10):
I think they'll still have too much for Slovakia.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Do you think Georgia can take some of their energy
from that win this morning and lay it down in
front of the Spanish?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, how good was it? How good was Georgia this
morning against Portugal? You know, that was tremend tremendous effort
from them, you know, do a die for them.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
They had to win. They did.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Spain probably the pick of the teams in the tournament
and Spain. I think we'll go through quite comfortably. But
you know, regardless of that, Georgia's had their first international tournament.
They've had a fantastic tournament and they can I think,
you know, Spain, Spain have been really good. They also
haven't scored many goals, you know, a couple of one
(04:50):
no wins.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And two two three one win. I think it was
at a tack.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
But yes, the Spain and Spain of you know, they
they strangle the life out of the game and I
think they'll have way too much quality for Georgia.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Hey, you got the next match, and we like these
these trains border matches. So we're talking about the French
taking on the Belgians. This should be fantastic, a melting
pot of styles, of classes of.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Players, absolutely, and I think the Belgians will be absolutely
kicking themselves that, you know, they finished second in the group,
a group that they probably were looking comfortably when the
draw was made to go yeah we should, we should
finish top of this this group. You know Slovakia remain
in Ukraine, they would have gone, well, we should definitely
(05:38):
should finish top. They've finished second and they've come up
against you know, co favorites France, and you know, I
think Belgium were kicking themselves absolutely, but what a matchup.
You know, I think the pick of the last sixteen
games because the French have have have also showne real quality.
(05:58):
They've got one of probably the best player in the
world and Mbappe although as noses are suffer suffered through
the tournament and you know they by rights they should
have too much quality for Belgium.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
But that will be.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
A really really, probably the highest quality game of the
last six thing.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
In Portugal, hoping that what happened today is not going
to affect them up against Slovenia seven o'clock Tuesday morning.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Yeah, it just shows you a like when a team
has already qualified, how just a little drop in quality,
a little drop in intensity really can bring them unstuck.
And Portugal are really poor against Georgia today and you
know they need they need a rocket. But you know
Slovenia who uh you know they are also a team
(06:52):
that weren't looking like they were going to qualify and
managed to do so with their nil draw against against
the English, so you know they'll be on on cloud nine.
Portugal should be too strong, but Slovenia showed showed quite
a lot against the English bar you know, maybe the
Portugugal kick into gear.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Netherlands should run all over the top of from absolutely
no doubt, and that's what we need.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
We were up again England. Romania is way better get
past them.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You're not still like going back to your Dutch roots
when you chan't say your fred.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
If you painted your head orange for this clash enough
or let's go to the last game of the Round
of sixteen Austria Turkey. Did anyone see that coming?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No one.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I don't think anyone would would have picked Austria in
a group with the Dutch and the French that Austria
would come top of the group.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But they have been excellent.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
They they it shows you what you can do when
you dare to attack and you dare to press and
you be brave with the ball.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And you know they've been.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Ralph Ranyak, the coach, has done a fantastic job with
that group of players and they fully deserve everything they've
got so far in the tournament because they've been probably
the standout team of the second tier so called second
tier nations in the Cup. And I think the low
Turkey have been, you know, have shown flashes. I think
Austria probably will edge that.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
If you can. Fred DeJong, can you put your clogs
in your tulips in your pocket and look across based
on current form, who do you like for the final?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I think coming out of so looking ahead to the semifinals,
you've probably got Netherlands or Austria against Italy or England.
So and then on the on the other side of that,
I would say, you know, you got a massive quarter final,
probably Germany Spain, so either I would probably pick the
(08:52):
Spanish against the French. On the other side in the semifinals.
Who's to say I would prior to the tournament. I
picked France to win the whole thing on on what
I've seen. Probably the Spanish the other form team of
the competition, but I would say a Spain England or
Spain Holland final would probably be the most likely.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
You can climb back in your windmill now, Thank you
very much for that, Fred de Young. Always a pleasure,
my friend. Do you look after yourself. Make sure you
drink plenty of water and have decent dozes during the
day so you can get through till Wednesday morning.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Thanks for your time there. Long nights, mate, and enjoyable cheers. Mate.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
For more from sports talk, listen live to News Talks.
It'd be from seven pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
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