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00:0024 teams began the Euros and now it's down to 8 in the quarter-finals. Of course
00:05We have two games in this video previewed for you
00:07It is Spain up against tournament host Germany
00:10And then we have England the media darlings up against Switzerland the dark horses of the tournament
00:16Here's our preview. My name is Ayomede Shukran. This is the North American Guardian TV
00:20Yeah, Hogan is here for this preview and of course good to have you Hogan. Thank you very much
00:31Very interesting games to preview in this one. We've got to the state of the tournament where we separate the boys from the men
00:38Yeah, exactly and which is bigger at this stage at this point other Spain and Germany Spain
00:44For most people are played the best football in the tournament
00:47But Germany are no pushovers them in one of the most
00:52Standardized teams in this tournament. They played fantastic football as well
00:56Now the question I want to really try to use you see Spain was paid the best football in the tournament
01:03Austin Germany from this tournament
01:05Yeah, actually
01:07It's going to be a wonderful game that I'm looking forward to seeing
01:11It's a competition between two fantastic team. I won't lie to you
01:16No, this man has actually improved the German team. We are looking at an experienced German team against the young
01:24Spanish team. Yeah, hopefully
01:27fantastically well
01:28when a push comes to shove I feel like
01:32experiences my little bit of
01:35The the young stars as it's way. Well, I'm looking at it that the game is going to it's a 90 minutes game
01:42And then onto 90 minutes. We can really determine who
01:45Takes the table, but you also have to factor in the home crowd the advantage that Germany will have
01:52That's the 12th man on the pitch there. Yeah
01:56advantage everything actually
01:59Swiss to German side actually because they have their fans to them. They have their homes home ground to them and
02:06It's a competition
02:09So, I believe the from the beginning they actually planned to host and win and we can see it why they are paying
02:16Yeah, all the other matches in the group stage, but it's really not not still beyond Spain
02:22Of course played. I mean, it's it's been sensational and you have your mouth
02:27Lamming your mouth on the right wing and then you have Nico Williams just to have been a revelation not like we are surprised
02:34I mean, we know what these boys are
02:36Capable of on a good day and now they brought it to tournaments
02:39You know, it's not for you get to see young talents like that pull
02:43Yeah
02:43Pushed to apply their countries or even you know
02:46When it's club for what it pushed your mouth was responsible for many match winning moments of us
02:50Lasses and it's doing it for speed. You can't look the talent of these guys. Yes, we can't overlook the talents
02:56But you know that they are coming into a different thing a different set of entirely different coach playing on that different coaches at the same
03:03time
03:04Yes, these guys are in the individually. They are very good. We know their standard and
03:10We can still
03:11Underwrite the fact that they are still young. This is their first competition major competition for the but you know
03:17It's not just about them. There's still the likes of Rodri
03:21There's still a lot of Fabian Ruiz who has even played more
03:25But it's more I think Fabian Ruiz has been the most underrated player in this tournament so far. Yes
03:30Yes, we from the onset he has always been one of the most underrated
03:35Meat-feeders even in Paris Saint-Germain. He was one of the most underrated
03:39Meat-feeders, but I believe that he's proving himself
03:43Right and proving us wrong as it were in this tournament because he has been fantastic
03:47I mean what look at the goals that he scored look at the the
03:52Contribution to play that has made in you also have to look consider that all the experience is also there for spin
03:58If you are trying to make them as a very young inexperienced, there's Alvaro Morata, the captain
04:05Okay, there's there's also Rodri. I mean they have they have they have Cavanaugh as well
04:10These are it's a blend of you know, all shades of football
04:15Based on numbers based on numbers between German side and the Spanish side
04:20We we have the more experienced team or players in the German side. We have the likes of good one
04:26We have the likes of Tony Cruz. We have the likes of a mutual. We have the likes of
04:32What's the name of the right back again, they have Kimmich
04:36Yes, so they have they have experienced players so many experienced players starting the game for them
04:43We have we have no. Yeah, of course
04:46Starting from the home side from the back line
04:48So they have this experience players
04:51Compared to it's we can say that German team is actually the mix and the blend of the young young players and the
04:59It a proper a proper blending of the young players and the experienced players
05:04Compared to the Spanish side where we have more of the young players over the the experienced players
05:10No, I don't know how much of this
05:12Counts as a factor
05:14What's your prediction for this game? I?
05:17see the game going into
05:20probably a
05:212-1 or in favor of
05:242-1 in favor of Germany
05:27Or many people don't want to see Spain leave the tournament. No, this is not about them
05:31I probably don't want to make my prediction because I think this is too close to call
05:35I do not want to be emotional. Like I said earlier it's a
05:39competition it's a game that we do not want to see this person outrightly wins the game because these two things have been
05:45One of the best two things we've had so far in this condition
05:48So at this point when they are meeting each other
05:52One thing we still stand out
05:55Which is the fact that Germany are about 60% age over 100
06:01Compared to 40% of Spain in the competition the the the home ground their fans to them
06:08They will have more fans in that game and more experienced players and look at their young players to look
06:15Sometimes he's not even playing for Germany. He's not even playing. There was a certain game in Bonn, the Sligar play of the season came in around the 86th minute
06:22But look at look at Musiala
06:24He has bowling that guy's his talent is incredible. So you see they don't even have a striker
06:29They don't use the striker as it's wear, you know
06:33They start with Caravate and when Caravate is playing you can. They have a striker in the class 4 crocket in the Champions League final
06:39He comes in the second half
06:41He comes in as a sub, but fair enough they have difference makers and that might just be a factor
06:46But I still think personally it's it's a close one to go
06:49But let's move away from that and talk about the game that is on everybody's lips
06:53Not maybe not for the right reasons, maybe not for the wrong reasons. It depends, but it's all about the three lines of England
06:59They they managed to scrape a win against Slovakia was not so convincing until the Jude Bellingham goal
07:07There's still a lot of conundrums to solve for Gareth Southgate, I'm not particularly convinced
07:13I don't think anybody is yet except that you know, when you win games you get credit for it
07:18It doesn't matter how you win sometimes but they're facing Switzerland
07:23Who I think is the dark horse and it's something about Switzerland in tournament football
07:28They always play just the way they do
07:31Aggressive, they play, they press, they are very very very very proactive
07:37They play on the front foot and many of the times they are underrated
07:42Yeah, if we talk about a team that has been more compact in this competition so far, it's the Switzerland
07:50They play the style. They don't change their style of play
07:54they continue like that and they keep pressing they keep pressing until they get to the goal and
08:00The difference between these two teams, the English team and Switzerland is just the coach factor
08:07I think I think I would make it as
08:09Identity crisis for England
08:11So much talent, way too much talent
08:15But then Switzerland don't even have up to half or maybe a third of the talent that England have
08:22But you just find that they play better football
08:26Sorry, we are getting something wrong and what we are getting wrong is that
08:29They both have talents
08:31But we have more hype talent in the English team
08:34I don't want to say hype, no no no, I don't particularly agree with that
08:38We know the English press, that's why I said they are media Dallas. I know that a lot of a lot of
08:45Credit that some of these guys get is way overboard
08:49I know that the press can't bloat some of these players ego
08:52But you can't take away the fact that when we mention each of these players and that's that's why I think that's why I think
08:58A lot of people are half-tagged Gary Salgates
09:01When you look at these players individually mention them Trent Alexander-Arnold is not even playing and you can't say he's not a world beater
09:08He's done it on the grandest of stages
09:10You have to look at the amount of talent
09:13Individually Harry Kane, look at the number of goals he bagged for Bayern Munich
09:16Look at Co Palma for Chelsea
09:18Had the most goal contributions as a young guy coming from Man City to Chelsea a very very disjointed team
09:24You look at Kobe Mino too
09:26I mean he scored the goal in the FA Cup final and had a great rise to football as well
09:29I can go on and on Phil Foden is the player of the year in Premier League. I don't want to say they are overhyped
09:34I think they are good
09:35But I don't think that the coach has found a way to integrate these players together into a unit
09:39Yes, like you rightly said the issue of this team. I said it earlier too is the coach
09:45What makes Switzerland better than
09:48England is the coach. The plan that you've placed down, the pattern of play. What style are you playing?
09:55We can see a style, we can see an identity for the Switzerland, but we can't find that for the English team. Why? The coach
10:03All these players like I said
10:05Yes, they are fantastic players, but there's a standard that has been raised ahead of bars for them
10:12Yeah, the coach is not being able to make this standard
10:16From their club side, the standard they were bringing from their club side. I mean they can't translate the form into tournament football
10:23Exactly. And you know my worry for England now
10:26Switzerland knocked out Italy and before that game their coach said that we are not worried about Italy
10:33Italy should be worried about us. I wonder what the coach will be thinking this time
10:37And you have to look at the quality of players in their ranks as well. They have Granit Xhaka
10:41They have Jadon Sakiri. These guys are experienced and you can't even doubt their quality at all
10:47They have Ndoye, their winger has been flying. He's been having a good tournament too
10:52However, if we talk about experience
10:55I believe that the English team still has more experience than the Switzerland because we have more players
11:00We have the likes of Harry Kane, Trippier. We have the likes of Walker, John Stones. They've had more competitions, World Cup, Euros
11:06They've played more competitions than that of
11:08Switzerland but what still boils down to
11:13the the total game is
11:16What can you do on the pitch of play when you play against each other?
11:19I believe that Southgate yet do not know. He has so many stars but still cannot say this should do this
11:26This should do that. You know, that's the point. I always feel like the English team is so imbalanced
11:31There's no identity. They don't know exactly what they are doing at times. I feel that they have too many
11:38ball-playing players
11:40Yeah, the profiles are similar. I think that's a problem. You have a lot of left-footed players in the team
11:47And then you're using a right full-back as the left full-back
11:54Yeah, some players playing off position, out of position
11:58So well, it remains to be seen how this one goes. I feel I can smell an upset here
12:04I don't know about you, but what do you make of the predictions for this game?
12:09Well, not being biased, I see Switzerland going ahead of England
12:14But in my biased mind, I could say England
12:17I feel that the game is going to, you know, the competition continues to grow and as they grow
12:23Each team sees themselves and then know what they've done wrong and see how to get better
12:30And I feel that there is an advancement for the English team
12:33You know, changing the style of play, changing the set of players from the first game to the round of 16
12:40I believe that Southgate has learnt a lot
12:45I'm not sure a lot of people agree with you
12:48I do feel that he has learnt a lot because for the first game, he started with
12:52Arnold in the midfield. The second game, he started again, but the third game he had
12:58Galaga coming. But let me even quickly ask you a question just before we go
13:02If they beat Switzerland, you have to consider the pathway of England
13:07It's about the easiest of any of the heavyweights. Do you think they can go all the way and beat Switzerland?
13:12Yes, because I mean I say all the way, all the way
13:16An Englishman would agree with you that all the way is going to the final because they did in the last edition
13:20So they want to win now
13:21I'm saying can they win the tournament if they beat Switzerland because I think Switzerland is a proper test
13:26No, they can't go all the way to win but they can go all the way to the final because if you look at
13:34the other
13:37Opponents, because anybody that is from that other route, anybody that gets to the final through they must have
13:42They must have deserved it. They are facing a test of time. Exactly. Imagine Germany facing Spain and then there's still Netherlands
13:49There's still France. There's still France. There's still Portugal
13:52So whoever gets there among them must have deserved it
13:55But anyways, we'll see how this thing spans out. Probably an upset. He's being sentimental. He's saying probably England wins
14:02I feel that Switzerland will do the business against England. So let's know what your thoughts are as well
14:08You can go straight into the comment section and tell us what do you think will pan out in this game?
14:14Spain-Germany, Spain versus Germany is a tough one as well
14:18Prospects against tournament hosts and then the media darlings England against the dark hostess of the tournament Switzerland
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14:41Thank you very much for making it to the show. As always. I hope your predictions go well this time
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