CONMEBOL SEPTEMBER QUALIFIERS RECAP | Winners, Losers, And Biggest Takeaways

welcome back to deadball TV we're going to be giving y'all our Gable September World Cup qualifying recap we're going to go over some winners some losers we're going to see how we did in our predictions and we're going to give y'all our biggest takeaways from this window guys in the comments of course drop your biggest takeaway winner and loser down below drop a like on the video if you could and hit subscribe if you like videos about and if you're listening on streaming platforms podcast five star than y'all very much I'm going to take the winner my biggest winner first and I have to say bag bagai bagay bagay and I gotta Pat myself on the back a little bit because I was bot effing on bro with what I said about these boys I said watch I said oh I said Al's going to come in he's going to make them super annoying his style of football plus Patrick fossil DNA is going to equal a in the and that is exactly what happened during this window where they go to Monte Vio and I'll I'll Grant you Uruguay were missing players I don't care they had a strong performance there and then they beat Brazil in assion we'll talk about Brazil later maybe in our loser section but that result I mean Alfaro might be Brazil Daddy he drew them when he was Ecuador manager he drew them at the Copa Medica when he was Costa Rica's manager and now he beats them as Badu's manager yo I mean Junior gonna put a hit out on him it's it's it's an even better it's an even better look that Brazil beats or for Alfaro it's an even better look that uh Brazil beats Ecuador this window too yes like that's just more fuel for the fire correct and I'm gonna throw a hot Tak down I don't even think it's I take by the why going to the World Cup baby 100% they get in top seven 100% I think with this appointment the players now seems like he's kind of experimented with the lineup a little bit at a sunion I don't I don't see them dropping many points there dude I don't think there's a lot of teams in Kow who can beat them there right now I think they've gotten a lot of the really tough fixtures out of the way bagu locked in Mass winner for me so you think you think we have another home like Bastion now you think we've got another locked in home Fortress yes 100% I'm not saying it's like I was say fell so that's probably a bad example ho Hoth fell you know from overwhelming forces you know what Hoth is the Battle of Stalingrad no ha to Santiago close though basically the same thing God what are we God we're we're not even three minutes in and we're already ripping the freaking historical comparison staling grod has made an appearance already yeah no we'll get to the Chileans I mean I think I think Santiago has fallen um is really how you can summarize that but I do think I and I think it's fallen from within but I do think bagu going to the World Cup massive winners from this window like as a team just dominant I think it's incredible what we've seen I think I've got to see more from uh P before I make that uh that judgment there uh some of my old habits and biases die hard but I think I'm with you I think I'm with you they're really big uh winners there my big winner though is Bolivia I mean when was the last time and this is kind of a layup but let's let's just talk about it when was the last time they scored when was the last time they scored six goals in a qualifying window I have to know I have to know I mean I I was going back and and the scores and matches were confusing me I didn't have enough prep time but that is a question that deserves an answer because I mean I'm I'm shocked I'm shocked dubs dubs at home and away and let's just say it the Battle of styling grad there were massive casualties there the bolivians did not take massive casualties they suffered a very lucky goal unlucky goal for them a very lucky goal from Chile I mean geka if you look at his face when they score that goal I mean he felt nothing I think he felt nothing he said that was a Pity goal that was a gimme honestly I would I I don't think he wanted to score that goal no I think he would have rather have lost two to zero because then he's got more material for the locker room after W you know dude I I think I think I'm glad you said Bolivia because that's the second winner and that's inarguable I mean the last time that Bolivia took six points in the qualifying window was 30 years ago 30 years ago was the last time they got a win at home and then left laaz and got another dub 30 years ago this was Chile's first ever defeat at home against Bolivia in the history of the of the fixture so massive W probably the last time Bolivia scored six goals Uruguay was still a province of Argentina I mean after this window are they not once more I mean I think the vultures are circling and that is a fascinating thing that I want to talk about later when we get into our biggest takeaways but I think great nominees we have perhaps the layups but sometimes you have to take the layups do you have an honorable mention you have a second one my my honorable mention was Colombia I took Colombia there okay I I think I think I think footy won I think footy won I like the Colombians I I got no beef towards them and it was good to see them get up and get excited it was fun we we can talk more about that uh when we get into Argentina Colombia but I I was frankly I was happy happy for that I like that I like that shot we need some positivity before we get into losers my honorable mention very quickly I'm going to say Ecuador I thought it was a very very solid performance away to Brazil I know they fell one- nothing but they they played a good game still Brazil still Brazil still Brazil they still played a good game and it was away from home and it was Big A's first game I mean come on it's and the goal they allowed it's it's it's a great somewhat unlucky goal um from from Rodrigo so I think a mention for those guys now losers oh baby you want to take yours first yeah uh I'm going to go for another layup here Chile take it Chile Jesus dude Chile Jesus I mean I I we were very bullish on Chile and I think I still am I think da hear me out oh I so my hear me out hear me out I'm not I'm not selling my stock and it's it's mostly due to bias but I'm going to try and thread a storyline line here and I'm going to see how it plays out okay um and right now I'm grasping the straws I'm trying to win my money back to hear this because like you said my match day two results did not line up with the predictions so I'm try we get into our scorecards I'm trying to win my credibility we saw that they can compete against bigger teams we saw that they're capable of that their performance in the Copa America somewhat unlucky but mostly just underperforming I'm thinking that there's a world in which the Chileans are just buying too high on their own stock and they were feeling too good about themselves and now they're feeling the uh the mid-season slump or the second game slump whatever you want to call it the second year slump they've got a little bit of a hangover they can cure this if there's a manager that can cure it it is gka in my opinion he's a project guy we've got him there we'll see how it plays out we'll see how it plays out but I'm thinking that he can Revitalize this team I'm thinking there's still life to uh well he can breathe life back into them they've still got something left to give and just got to give it time this next window is going to be a really really big one I said this was going to be the statement window or this had to be the statement window it wasn't it sent very much the opposite message to what we were hoping at least for geka sake um and yeah they've got they've got a big hill to climb but they're back in the position that they were when they found success so this is not unfamiliar territory for them you know they're once again being underrated so guys balls in your court I agree in the sense that now they have nothing to lose they're like the cornered dog you know the Stray Dog now is where it is the most dangerous do you know who their next two games are nobody could who is it they got Brazil and Colombia next window okay well it's done it's been a nice run uh got out no in next match day oh my God in in all seriousness they paid this man a bag I'm sure I don't think he's I don't think he's out next window I think he's I think he's going through the World Cup I'm sure um well here's my question I was gonna ask you this later but who's more to blame geka or the players cuz I keep going back and forth I would love let us know in the comments who is more responsible for the downfall of Chile right now is it the player pool are they not good enough or is a geka is he just the wrong man for this job here are my thoughts here are my thoughts on this just and this is just the eye test it's not working without Baron so he puts bariton in it still doesn't work you're seeing the changes are being made you're seeing that options are being explored I think that he's working with a very talentless pool you know not saying that there isn't talent in that Squad but potentially it's just not up to Snuff I mean we know that g qualifying is insane and even with the extended amount of teams that are going to make the cut here um the animosity doesn't die away you know anybody who was saying that it would dilute the competition I mean just look at this window you're wrong yeah you know that that may even have been me you know back when this was uh announced when this structure was announced but you're wrong it fully the animosity does not die the vital that these teams have for one another does not simply go away because you know there are more guys making the cut it was never about making the cut a lot of these lower teams who don't usually make the cut they want to fight out of spite and that's what they want that's that's that's fully it 100% And we but obviously for with gka they they appointed him to make the world cup and I understand I understand why Chileans will be upset but if you look at the moves that are being made around Chile I mean Paraguay getting Alfaro is a match made in heaven that's not what you wanted that's what you're competing with that's your main competition your main competition was always bagu Peru B supposed to be yeah Chile was supposed to be the princess at the ball they were supposed to have the match transfer that changed everything them into Uruguay and now with alfo the dialogue is kind of Switched okay well there's more competition on the I honestly feel like I'm watching an anime you know I feel like I'm watching a high like I don't even know um like what is it oh man what's that show about the billionaires um oh jeez I don't know oh dude it's on HBO I can't remember but it just feels like they dropped the mic and then somebody dropped a mic on top of it you've been superseded they they have they've been leap frogged they've been leap frogged I think barag were in a weird spot where they had more Talent than Chile but they had a worse manager now they have Alfaro who's probably on par with geka if you want to say it's a little worse I'm okay with that just because he doesn't have the Copa America clout cool but Alfaro plus the talent of Paraguay equals they G to finish above you bro you look at Peru they appoint fatti okay they're going full terrorist ball they're going gorilla Warfare It's the only thing they can do well now Peru just got a little bit more annoying now Peru is getting draws at home against Colombia it's not it's not a lot but it's a little bit of improvement you losing to Bolivia at home for the first time ever so the the field his has outgrown F and I think if you sack geka I don't think it gets better and you know what my hater ass take this is Alexis Sanchez's fault you know why okay why I'm G tell you why let me take y'all back first game at the goai Medica Chile versus Peru BS game awful watch zero quality on display but what happens Peru creates or excuse me Chile creates one incredible chance in that game and that chance Falls to Alexis Sanchez who is unable to score I believe he blasted the the header the shot wide I genuinely think if he puts that chance away Chile win the game they get three points from the first game of the kopa Medica who knows what happens after that it almost felt like geka came in he got the Vibes right then the Copa started and you failed to beat Peru your arch rival who are trash right now and it was like it was like it shook the team and then you lose to Argentina after playing a pretty good game and then you get a red card against Canada and it's just like disaster disaster disaster then you got to play Argentina again as soon as the goa's over another in one side is you were always gonna lose you think that Chile's Got The Yips right now you think that we're seeing a a rattled Chile I think we saw The Dominoes of death fall one by one they're stacking up and they don't have the talent to come back they don't and and if geka does not get the locker room back not that he's lost it but he's certainly this team has no confidence they're finished and they'll probably finish below Bolivia I'm not kidding yeah so I don't I think you get rid of geka you keep geka it doesn't matter th this team is shaking right now and they they'll be praying for a point next window I I really think so um so Chile massive loser I don't think there's anything there's no argument against that dude I'm gonna say yeah I'm gonna say Brazil I'm gonna say Brazil I'm also going to take the layup here Brazil have lost four games this qualifying cycle they've only lost more than four games one time in their history the most they've ever lost in a World Cup qualifying cycle was six games we have 10 games to go bro when 10 games you know when that was was that 20 2002 yes yeah it was 2002 that's ironically enough that's the year that they went on to win the World Cup right yeah yeah yeah so which is maybe this horing maybe maybe maybe they can pull a hail M but they don't have R9 to you know get them out of pitch here no I'm glad she brought him up I'm gonna get back to that in a second they have 10 matches left and dude I see them dropping more I see them losing more than two games for for sure for sure they haven't gone they haven't gone to Ecuador yet they're going to have Colombia coming into town I don't think they played in mon Vio I could be wrong but I think they played Uruguay at home no they didn't they lost to Uruguay in Monte VI so they got Monte Vio going to Brazil I don't remember where the Argentina I think beat them in Brazil yes they did end's header so you got Argentina away I mean we're looking at it historically bad World Cup campaign we can't we can't extrapolate too much now but Brazil during this window again lackluster you brought up R9 I'm I'm convinced the biggest problem with this team is they don't have a striker and and genuinely this is not a meme take I'm not trying to Banter at what point do they bring bring richardon back at what point does Matias Cuna get another look at the striker in this team cuz entri bro bro we fans of his don't take us wrong in the comments we're fans of his I liked him honestly my biggest positive for Brazil was Hendrick's hairstyle I thought it look sick he looks like he should be banging him in top Corner yeah I mean Gabriel magal looked pretty good too but I mean he's just not ready so at what point do you take another nine and say hey we we have to switch something up here I never thought they'd be missing Bobby firmino as much as they do yeah they cannot not score goals there's not a single goal scorer in this team doesn't matter how pretty the football is they do not score any any even half decent defense they play it's going to be a long 90 minutes for Brazil gonna be a long 90 minutes long long long 90 minutes agreed agreed my uh my Biggest Loser was uh Chile but the honorable mention I got Junior I got Junior I'm glad I'm glad you brought that up he's glad you brought that up guy yeah we said we said before the window Junior has the hottest seat in G bowl and that he needs a massive window to save his job well how you feeling now Conor I'm feeling like my man's days are numbered I'm feeling like the decision to get him out has been made and right now we're just looking for candidates at this point because I don't think junior is the guy that's going to cycle the nine no I think probably one of his primary instructions when he came to power when he usurped the throne he when he usurped the throne one of his uh uh primary directives was probably get venicius firing get endrick firing I bet you they said get Rodrigo or Krick get one of those guys said one of those is our future nine we want to Brand them that way and we see potential so you have to play them and frankly you want another hot take well maybe not not a hot take but a scalding not not a scalding one it's it feels mean to say this but it's not his fault it's not Junior's fault I don't think it's Junior's fault I think he was given a job and he's doing that job to the specifications that he was given and I don't think these guys are delivering that I mean not that I don't think they're not full stop yeah I would love to know any Brazilians or anybody else in the comments what Brazilian player has gotten better for the national team since junor took over who's gotten better maybe maybe Wendell Maybe magal I don't think gimes has gotten better I think he's kind of stayed the same yeah it ain't Vinnie it ain't any of the big guns I don't know I think he's making mistakes since the World Cup and now this this qualifying window what does Vinnie have two two goal contributions or a whopping what did he have four before that so six total total he might be on five total he might be on five total yeah I'm just I'm just saying that was a problem before Junior and he didn't fix it I don't think it's Junior I don't think he's the issue that's we'll see what people think Down Below in the uh in the comments um why don't we go ahead and take it to the match Recaps and then guys let's review how Conor and I scored in our predictions so buckle up for this one we'll start with the first match day probably the surprise result okay let me know in the comments and Conor you tell me too bigger surprise Bolivia 40 against Venezuela at home or Paraguay beating Brazil one- nothing at home bigger surprise I think you got to say parag I'm gonna for me Bolivia for me it was Bolivia four goals Venezuela this is a top three defense and G me and they got worked yeah I get it the altitude I don't care they got worked that's just me I don't think there's a right answer but I just had to ask that because both of those results I think are kind of the the eyebrow aners here I I think I agree with you in the magnitude of goals scored I don't think that I'm surprised about the result if that makes any sense like I think I went back and I said I think I had Bolivia losing but I'm not shocked that they came away with a win I I'll go through our uh our results in your a second so Bolivia beat Venezuela 4 nothing at home obviously Monumental win for the bolivians Argentina then completely wiped the floor with Chile 3 nothing uru and paguay battled out to a nil nil draw in montivo without a bunch of Uruguay's you know starters in due2 suspension Brazil narrowly edged Ecuador one nothing and Peru got the draw 1-1 against columia I now let me go one by one here so columia w one draw I had both of us had colia winning this one two nothing actually we did not have faith in our Peruan Brothers to get a result here um I don't know really what to say about this game it was two setpiece goals I think Colombia need to officially be known as Air Jordan FC because they are the most dangerous setpiece team in the world period they are it's insane you cannot keep these guys off the ball I used to think it was Ecuador it's not not anymore not not not L not lately if you look at the recency bias I mean you you've got to say they're just some big Lads and they're getting up I mean we we'll get there but Lisandro k k we're really seeing well you know what we'll get there we'll get there yeah so so big point for Peru must be said we were both wrong on that one both of us were pretty spoton Argentina Chile obviously the actual score was Argentina 3 Chile nil we both had a two- nil I thought the ball was a freak in this game he was so good Argentina completely cooked golaso from julan Banger and a rocket from dybala as well good goals in this game dude come on now are are we getting into this game yeah let's get into the game yeah all right so I had a field day with this one this one was just this one was just it it was a pleasure to watch it was absolute Argentine domination um ma aliser getting a goal at right after a big Miss from him um very happy for that always always um I think you gotta say that man of the match has to go to the little Argentine kid who threw up the double Birds after maal scored that goal and you immediately see his dad his dad should have you know gotten a yellow card for contact here because I mean he like throws his hands down he's laughing but he that's just unfair contact on the little kid the little kid's just getting up he's buying into the culture just really unfair there um but yeah julan I I literally have wonder goal written down it was gorgeous gorgeous just fantastic I it's great it was yeah it was phenomenal I mean he looked like Arian Robin with a little cut inside and then boom just fantastic um I said send off game too the media sendoff game and this is this is exactly how it has to happen and this this the dadia send off remind me because I think that carries us into the Colombia result um it's good to see La Hoya back assist from garnacho pretty nice pretty nice seeing the Young Guns getting up I like that I like that it's not a lot it's not a lot but that's already what a 20th of what of what venicius has contributed in his entire his entire career so I'll take than 20th probably it's probably pretty close the 20th is like well that's that's 5% that's a fifth that's a fifth right and if he's got five gold contributions I'm just saying listen No it would be oneth not a 20th the 20th is like oneid by oh shoot yeah you know what I'm saying you guys understand what I'm saying listen n Vinnie has like single digit goal contributions is not a 20th you like absolutely not anyway the point still understand I'm not gonna let you insult garnacho like that no no no no and I I wouldn't D even though he wears That Hideous red jersey um okay I've got two things to say about Chile here Catalan you got to shave the mustache you got to shave the mustache it's not happening you if you are going to wear that mustache you have to be Beyond reproach and my man's not doing his job you can't be bad and have that muzy I'm just saying it's time he heid he thought he was claudo Bravo and he's just not dude he thought he was Errol Flynn for any of the what 70s 80s film afficianados out there it's no absolutely not you can't you can't do the spike like you just got to do full Cowboy if you're going Cloud o braa Cloud o braa did it with class this man it's in a front to clao Bravo's Legacy looks like some blinders in there trying to to me it gives more like I don't even know a pirate no but you can't be that ass cheeks and have that be go that's the point yes that's what we're getting at here and then last thing last thing is just pray for gka pray for garea I mean I'm used to seeing managers yell on the sidelines but I mean gika just looks desperate here it's a it's just it's yells out of desperation yeah it's going to be a big hill for him to climb um we should speak very quickly on Bolivia yeah beating Venezuela 4 nothing I thought it was an interesting approach to the game from Batista I think he went to defensive dude he went with the back three he played John Adam budoo as a center back I just thought it was you cannot do that you cannot survive 90 minutes against Bolivia you have to kind of go at them you get the goal and then you fall back so that way if you concede you can still get out of there with a point but it was like Venezuela just kind of took the punches from the jump and I think it obviously really backfired you got your ass kicked for nothing and so I want to ask you is Bolivia legit did Venezuela flop how do you see this let's go the window overall I okay oh the window overall okay so that's a tough one I think that to look at Bolivia you have to take into account and you know I like these long overarching story lines I like to build those I like to craft them um I like to try and piece them together that's fun to meat I'm a man of theater I love it I believe genuinely the Bolivia was just tired of getting that ass beat they were exhausted okay they said we're changing something and I think the Venezuela came in very pragmatic they said we're defensive first they're defensive first we're going to be looking at a zero to zero draw here they were looking for just a snoozefest and Bolivia showed up ready Venezuela didn't do their homework or didn't have a contingency plan so when Bolivia got the uh got the train moving so to speak they picked up momentum and there's no going back at that point there's no going back at that point I think it was just poor preparation on Venezuela's behalf and uh you just got to be ready for that in you got to be ready for that you have to prepare because you have no idea what a team is going to show up with I completely agree I think Batista approached the game a little naive and I think they got jumped they got jumped in the mountains yep by the bivans like they got they got cut off at the mountain pass they did like y y'all really thought bivia was going to show up and play for a draw no no and then now look what you've done now you've unleashed the Bolivian Mountain rage then they go to Chile and they get the dub there now you've got them feeling themselves they got two wins now at home they beat Venezuela and Peru I mean it's going to be very very tough you got the crowd back into it in Bolivia as well that went from like a maybe laaz and and Bolivia won't be that scary this cycle to like God damn it all right it's back they're back that's kind of how I see they're back I I actually think they are back I actually think they are legit I've been seeing little little glimpses of good stuff from Bolivia even games against Brazil moments of the Cai Medica there are moments where like okay there's something here they're still not going to make it to the World Cup but they don't finish last in the table hell no hell no so we both got that one actually hold on wait a minute this is one of my most glorious moments from the preview I said Bolivia we're GNA Edge this one I was like I don't know dude and what I gotta go back to the magnitude they didn't Edge it they destroyed it there was no edging here they bodied this I have two notes here and it's hilarious I'm like ball knowledge 4000 called Bolivia winning though I said 2-1 massive L because I also said quote ain't nobody scoring three on Venezuela right [Laughter] so we have a net zero uh I think it all came out in the wash baby it all came out in the wash oh God I thought I was cooking there for a second and it just absolutely collapsed so both of us got that one wrong um bagay nil Uruguay nil I did have a a draw in this game you were feeling Uruguay to Paraguay nil you thought that Paraguay was going to do it this is fascinating to me this is one of my biggest takeaways from this window which we'll just drop them throughout you know this recording I think be is losing the fans I think he's losing the fans I don't know if you follow as many uruan accounts as I do dude they're going at this man they're saying his Squad selection is trash they're saying he's too stubborn they're saying he's trusting the same players who are clearly not good enough to the uruan standard now I'm not an uru football expert so I don't know who's being left out you know I don't know what mistakes or players Bea should be calling up but he's not but we're seeing the cracks we're seeing the cracks and I kind of want to say we called this [ __ ] if the Copa manica didn't go well and at the end of the day they started off scorching hot barely did anything against Brazil couldn't beat 10 men Columbia and then beat Canada on pens like it seems like the bssa cycle the good and the bad has already come full circle 12 months in it's kind of happened a little faster this time so I'm not saying B's job is under threat I'm not saying he's going to be sacked I'm not saying he's doing a terrible job but I do always find it fascinating when the fan base starts turning and I trust me they are turning I don't know how many more apologist he has if they don't start doing something in the next window and get back to form I think people are like this might be a classic Bosa job and that's both a good and bad thing that's my take away from this I was like oh y'all y'all displeased and it can it can change quickly they looked unbeatable before the go Meda and now it's like Bosa I saw I saw something was like you can kill the man but not the idea and it was Oscar Tabares half of his face and then then it was Marcel belela I also saw one that was ma dong and Marcela belela so that's how the ud are feeling right now about their manager I think that a lot of this is tough and yeah you C you can you know i' really don't know how the fans are feeling I don't you know there's four million Collective UD Wan out there I'm really worried that he's getting unfair flak here from the band that they incurred earlier CU you have to think that these I mean you you know that these play out a little bit differently if you've got your full Squad because look this Uruguay is a very different look from the one that we had and I know I was really bullish on them I think I was sipping that uraian Kool-Aid a little too much but it is what it is it is what it is la de la Papa has come to fruition you know you sat down at the dinner table and I mean this is this is why this is why my ancestors left Ireland you know the papa wasn't good the potato went bad the food was bad the potato that you got is not enough it's not enough you got to be looking for more and it's just it's just bad luck it's bad luck and you have to think after looking at this that the punishment from from who was it from K or from FIFA from kol right kol yeah you have to think that that's a little harsh now I mean that's that's where my mind G I agree with you I think it's a a non Uruguayan I mean uruan Argentine same thing so you have a little bit of mixed blood here but me I can I can look at this objectively I think the band protects biosa a little bit it does it's like okay bro don't act like Udu were coming out here playing the same way if they had Aro gimenez banur and Nunes do not be that dumb you know things would have been different I agree in that sense but you also and I'm I'mma play Devil's Advocate against my I said and I still hold that this well I just want to give the people you know all of the you know I'm not out here for me I'm out here to dissect a football game I don't I you know I hate match predictions you're here re exactly be Hest I'm here for the cloud exactly yeah you see I don't have any rings on my fingers I need I'm going until I can dye my hair blonde like theole and people won't flame me for it you know I think that I have been one of the major proponents of saying that belela is a project guy very much like Gara you give him the reins and he brings the young guys up you like it when he does avantguard stuff like bringing up whatever his name was from you know the the b-league or from the semi-pro team in Uruguay you want him to bring in no names so you say that okay you know if there's a manager that you're going to get in the locker room to coach a bunch of like no buies not that these guys are Nob buies they are professional Udan soccer players football players but to coach a bunch of guys who you know are not the first Squad selection you gotta think that he's the one that's going to be able to Galvanize that that's going to be able to Muster that strength you know he's going to be able to do a lot with the little that's his I don't know if you can hear the car accident that just went on outside but it's brutal you gotta think he's yeah another night in New York you got to think that he's your guy and he's not or he wasn't this window maybe he still is maybe this is just a fluke but I don't know he wasn't this window and let's be realistic you're gonna get worse windows so I don't know I I'm I'm looking at my own takes right now I I have to do some introspection here it'll be interesting to see what happens moving forward because I agree with you if UD why take six next window maybe people are back to saying he's a loco he's the genus I don't know I don't know I just think we're now seeing exactly why Bea was both a good higher and maybe not so great a hire for uay to begin with because this team needs to win and that's something that he just has never really been able to do at the very top top level when it matters when it matters yeah and paguay I already I already sang their praises incredible window from them banging appointment I mean Costa Rica in the mud that they lost him as a manager so quickly and then Brazil Ecuador we were both spoton we both had Brazil one Ecuador nil and that's exactly what happened so from the match a seven I scored a four out of five Connor two out of five buddy two out of five it's okay I mean it happens it happens never let the comments get to you until I see them drop prediction videos they can say all they want to say now match day eight I'll do this a bit differently I'll kind of go through this a little faster here so we can hurry up and uh end the episode Colombia did beat Argentina 2-1 revenge for the Copa America final in the Bania I had Colombia one- nothing Connor you had a nil nil Chile historic loss to Bia 21 at home we both had Chile taking this one Conor I can't remember if you had three nil or one nil I had two nil for chile so not only did we both have Chile winning this game we both didn't think Bolivia were going to score and they did and the Chile goal was [ __ ] but we'll get to that in a second Ecuador 1 nil in Kito that is my score line what I had you had Ecuador winning a bit more of a decisive game three nothing but we still got the the winner correct in that one Venezuela nil Uruguay nil we both had Venezuela winning this game and I want to talk about this game first I had Venezuela 2 Uruguay 1 you had Venezuela 1 Uruguay nil and then lastly bagay W Brazil nothing I thought it was going to be a 1-1 draw you thought it was going to be a 3-1 Brazil Victory now allow me to quickly I know we're coming up on the the 45 minutes here so let's try to go these rapid fire possible the Venezuela Ur game all I want to say about this is Venezuela should have won like our prediction should have been right crochette hands down the MVP for in this game I want to say he had five saves I mean he had some great ones on Rondon I think aramburu had a great shot god this might have had one as well like he made some top top saves in this match and uay did nothing going the other way like they honestly got bodied at matarin I think it's kind of an L vene didn't get out of there three points I don't know if you have any thoughts on the match before we move it on um this this is not one that I got to see this is not one that I was able to see um I was horrifically jealous of you through the whole window I mean the kids at school were talking to me about the games and and I just had to sit there knowing that you had prime access to this and football season just started over here so there's no way in hell that um that I was going to get to uh to see any of these games you know I'm I'm missing that Vick subscription more and more and more it's all right it's only8 a month I'm sure we can get it back yeah yeah I can I can I can figure that out I'm not saying it was a great game I'm just cooked and deserved to get the three points no but you you you want to see these games I I actively want to see these games I was missing the football I thought the hangover from the kopai Medicap would still have me but I was sitting there filled with just jealousy and you know what I'll say it hatred hatred towards you it should have been me wouldn't be the first time and it surely not be the last it won't because I'm telling you I feel it right now um wait till I tell you how you scored in match day eight oh you we can just we can just not talk about that we'll just move right on over there Venezuela why I mean dude it's just it's just a disappointment to see that you know you you hope that at the very least and again I'm gonna go in on be dude I'm just making a case against this man he's an offensive first coach you want to see some like crazy stuff coming from him right correct you at least want to see you know you how he performed at leads to sort of transfer over here where okay you know maybe you've got you know a lower Talent Squad now but you you want to see some offensive play and I understand that Venezuela is good defensively but the fact that you can't even conjure a decent effort I mean the case it's it's not looking good bro like I don't I don't know what to say I'm an apologist and I you're not giving me anything to to apologize with you know I have no ammo here even the stuff you're good at you're not pulling through so I I I don't know frankly I I'm I'm left speechless I give you some memo right here Venezuela outshot Uruguay 20 to8 in this game that's that's quite the margin this is Venezuela we're talking about that daming is what it is yeah so I I'm going to maintain this will feel like a loss for Venezuela looking back um let's talk about Argentina Colombia obviously we have to talk about this game gopa Medica final rematch it's hilarious because we weren't that off on our predictions like obviously you had the draw but I feel like the draw was to save money and we both were like this game is going to be ass cheeks and it actually ended up being quite good it was quite a good game dude and again two two set piece goals from columia they had three goals this window all three were set pieces ridiculous ridic in the Pud can't be stopped proofs in the pudding I mean dude let's let's talk about that first goal mosa an absolute stud I did not get to see him for the other game but dude what just a dominant performer I have one caveat to that but I want to sing his Praises first huge and this is the most I think underrated thing he did all game but a huge block on l in the second half a massive block on La in the second half because that right there is the difference between your three points and regaining honor for Colombia yeah yeah and what a tie exactly what we called yeah you know he watched de show you're talking about yeah not on my watch I mean he just put his foot down and dude laato this is what I'll say for him the man couldn't buy a goal in this game but it was coming it was coming if that goes into extra time I I know one never it's it's not going to happen it's a qualifier I know that's not in the rules before y'all get after me but I can smell it coming and you can see it you can see it on his face I mean the guy is just out for blood and he's just unlucky to not get a clear shot on goal that was his opportunity and that little stumble that mosa forces causes the ball to get just out of his grab one more touch and it's a shot on goal I mean I mean if he gets his foot to it it's a shot on goal and we know that Vargas does not have a great track record with one-on ones I think he conceded what his second his second uh his second nutmeg goal here and that might have been three in a row against yeah I think I think I think the goal in the Copa final was you're right you're right and now niik Gonzalez wins a little more credit and Scallon job is made harder because he finally got a uh a conversion and it was a nut Big Goal big goal for him yeah big go massive off off a terrible James Rodriguez pass yes and and now the point that I was trying to get to initially before I got on my subbox here is that mosa got up for that mosa got up for that goal that big body big body boy completely Cooks lisandra on the assignment I mean dude to your credit here this is exactly why you don't like Lisandro and these are his weaknesses being put on display right here I my argument for for uh for Lisandro was that in the air he's got a vertical he's got a vertical he does if he can jump up there he wasn't there he wasn't there he got cooked on the assignment man had his head turned for one Split Second should have been paying attention still looking at the trajectory Mosa's there Lisandro I'm gonna I'm gonna go crazy here this was a really big deal for me because you said you said this is why I don't like Lisandro Martinez and I see the weaknesses in this game this is also why I love Colombia this is why I think Colombia is such a dangerous team and why they are the second best team in colum bowl and I'm gonna be honest the gap between Argentina and Colombia and the rest it's growing like a used to be ah M maybe Uruguay is but no no and the people that were still in the comments chirping about Brazil embarrassing bro Brazil they might not even be fourth right now don't even talk about top two talk to me in a year but anyways my point is this is the exact Colombia that we saw for the entire cop America until the final and then I felt like Lorenzo just got it really wrong he got it really wrong with his substitutes he got it wrong with his tactics I think Luis Diaz ghosted I think John Aras didn't really do anything and now we kind of saw that expelled a little bit and I'm gonna say I like to see that because I like to see managers learn from their mistakes and now obviously the big objective for Columbia now is the 2026 World Cup and how they perform at the tournament based on how they look they should be aiming for a semi-final that should be the goal that's not a prediction but they should be aiming for the semi-final they're good enough to to do that they're good enough to beat almost every single European team if not all of them so I think this was this was big for Colombia in that sense if if y'all had beaten them again in the barania the balloon's a little deflated y yeah I agree I agree then you're looking at you know just like you said for chile you're looking at a you know maybe the morale has been shaken a little bit right you can't supersede Argentina and you know in all likelihood Argentina is almost assuredly not going to win the next World Cup so without missing diaria in this game too exactly exactly so that's dangerous but they didn't they came away with the win and I'm goingon to say a few things here I respectfully disagree with your take on the fact that or what you're saying was Colombian adjustments I think that they may have shown up improved due to Colombian adjustments but I'm gonna make a case for Argentina being the main factor here I think Argentina played a tremendous game I mean they went full full python in the Copa America they strangled and cut off passing lanes and play the most boring game of football that we saw almost all tournament you could make an argument yeah and that's exactly what they wanted and that happened and yes you're right maybe the Colombian lineup and the substitutions did nothing to combat that as it should have but I don't think they played the same game here I also don't think that the argentines showed up ready for this game and I don't think that they had the investment we sold all of our motivation on theia sendoff game it felt like a fairy tale was coming to a conclusion we also don't have Messi so I don't think the guys are able to properly motivate thems elves without their two massive leaders there you know and we have other leaders on the team but I just don't think we came correct for this game that being said Colombia did Play Pretty football they played very competitive football I think I agree with you 100% they are inarguably the second best team excuse me they're the second best team right now in K inarguably yeah inarguably Beyond reproach and I am 100% aligned with you in that I think that they can go Toe totoe with the big boy over across the pond I think they can do that I'm interested to see how they stack up against the African teams I'm interested I want to know what that looks like but dude right now it's looking good Banger right now now what I'm saying what I'm about to say I don't want it to I don't mean it in a hateful way it will be Tak I don't think it was a pen it will be taken as such no matter what I say but I have to get it out there you know just for my own legal defense for I think mun's got many there you think he got him what do you mean I think I think he touched him wa you think otamendi touched Munos yeah you think he dragged him over I will say this go back find the replays on YouTube because I watched six of them end's entire body has passed Muno by the time that he starts jumping cuz go back watch it it's inarguably he's a jump he does sell that and he does well to sell it he does well to sell it for all of the you know boring play that that Argentina gave off in the Copa America this is bad karma coming to bite him in the butt and Colombia earned that penalty I will say that they earned that penalty it was very soft for my money I'm not having it Paraguay their nine what's his name uh big Viking looking white guy with the big red beard oh like uh seems like vpa or something never seen him something like that homeboy tried to pull a very similar stunt against Brazil and was not not VA okay P he tried to pull P Peter bread all right so my boy Peter bread tried to pull something very similar in the Brazil game he didn't sell it as well frankly wasn't nearly as close a challenge but it's the same sort of sentiment I think similar positioning in the Box it's a tough sell I think the one against artino was a lot more clear or was a lot less clear rather and I'm happy for Colombia at the end of the day and frankly for Argentina too if we're going to lose points this is the time to do it I think we'll be ready for next window yeah I think it was a pen I'm going to be honest Daniel obviously didn't play in the copica final because of the red card and that was a big he's a big addition back into this Colombian side well never know because he was a dumbass against udig guay what would have happened if he actually played so but it doesn't matter like I get it it's very important for Colombia I'm kind of countering myself here it's very important that they won but obviously they lost the big one which was the final so hopefully that just goes on to motivate Columbia at the next World Cup to put in a better performance and be like we finally got we finally took out Argentina maybe there's nothing stopping us anymore you know kind of like what Argentina did with Brazil previously I don't know we're gonna have to wait and see uh wrapping this up real quick talked about the uh Chile lost 2-1 to Bolivia bro that freaking I still don't even know what happened when V got scored for chile when the Bolivian goalkeeper just like went down clutching his hamstring did the guy actually get hurt or was he faking it did you hear what it looked like to me is that the ball goes just out of his reach he sees Vargas and he panics and maybe he pulled his hamstring maybe he didn't either way you can't just call a timeout like that yeah injury or no I'm so sorry no there's not a team on planet Earth that is not scoring that goal yeah yep I thought it 100 I was watching I was like he kind of takes a heavy touch there I don't know like I think he knew he was done he takes a heavy touch he's cooked now the smart thing you take a stutter step and just try and get some space maybe a drag back or something anything but lack of confidence with the ball at your feet as a keeper this is the modern game welcome to the full court press I don't I don't know what to tell you yeah and the fact that Chile get gifted a goal like that and they Ste lose at home I mean they're an absolutely they're a finished national team like if you look at Bolivia's goals it's some of the worst defending I've ever seen from Chile like they have numbers in the box they're not outnumbered all Bolivia does is just cut in from the left side twice and cross the ball Lane and they just get destroyed like Chile's just annihilated like their center backs Mr mustache man I guess just absolutely terrible so massive win for Bolivia Chile so down bad I want to touch on we can talk about Ecuador Peru very quickly it was a 1- nil it was a very nice headed from Valencia the cross though from Alan Franco was was incredible it was a very very good cross I think he made the conat B team of the week for that which I think is fair and Peru really didn't do anything at all like they just played defense the entire game and and Ecuador being a team who can't score we've been saying this for a year still can't score so they got a one- nil win and that sounds about right they beat Chile at home one nothing now they've beaten Peru one nil at home they'll probably beat Bolivia one nil at home like that's I think that's going to be the story of Ecuador's qualifying campaign and last but not least bada versus Brazil I felt like it would be a draw you felt like Brazil would win and Paraguay won and I want to ask you guys in the comments better goal from this qualifying window Diego Gomez against Brazil or Julian against Chile cuz both of those were bangers but that gold Miss go was nice dude I mean it was it was like a it was nice I saw that I saw that I was like this is this is why bagu they got the talent man they really do they just need a coach who can put it together here's here's what I'm going to say about that game I got two takeaways bagay best man marking of the entire Window Man marking you want to showcase that's it Lisandro Martinez go home right now because if you manm mark with half half of the proficiency that the pagwan mustered in that game we go home with the tie at least if not a win um and then yeah dude my my thoughts on that goal outside of the foot shot meets goalpost equals I think best goal of the window well I don't know julan hit the crossbar I'm a sucker for an outside of the foot shot though I love it I love an outside of the foot shot they're just they're they're gorgeous I think my bias is going against my personal preference right now I like outside of the foot shots but you know it's Argentina so they're like it's neck and neck for me yeah also if you take it to like one was to beat Chile one was to beat Brazil and we had already had you know a goal to beat Chile with or without that goal we win the game yeah I think I think you got to go you got to go pagay yeah damn it I me junor saw that and he was like God damn like I can't catch a break here he saw that he was like what do I gotta do what do I gotta do man he's like oh they're going to kill me back in uh back in Rio but like how am I supposed to stop that like there there's no keeper alive who stops that you got Allison in goal for God's sake and Allison dived he was horizontal he was four did ground he did he did everything that was humanly possible yeah and then correct correct um yeah it was a absolute screamer what a start to alf's tenure with bagay and I gotta say dude how the the night and day between when Brazil spank the crap out of them 4 nothing at the Meda or 4-1 at the goopa Medica and now crazy crazy that was literally venice's best game in a Brazil show was ethic Oba and he was a ghost like got absolutely locked up in this game did nothing I'm telling you man that man marking and whatever game plan they had for venicius you just rinse and repeat rinse and repeat because it'll it'll work next window too I don't think we'll see any sort of Hangover until the one after this but uh listen I was I was basing a lot of my metric on uh selling on Paraguay based on that Brazil game I said if Brazil can get up for this then there's some serious weaknesses with parag but I mean lookie lookie it's just takes one adjustment and like you said he's getting the lads firing so kudos to Paraguay I'm happy to be wrong I'm happy to be wrong I want to see my boy in ceso gaining confidence banging in goals because God knows I need him in fantasy God knows I you were very wrong actually our uh grades for match day eight I went three for five Connor you went oh one for five one for five okay one for five one for five so your total score our total scores for this window I got seven out of 10 games correct so at least I passed Connor three for 10 my guy what happened I I told you I hate predictions they're not my strong suit I don't like seeing it I don't like them can't stand them staple content piece on it is a staple content piece I can't do it I'll do the postmatch reactions and dissections but that's my bread and butter baby I can't don't make me do a prediction please please God that's why I don't bet that's why I don't Sports bet that and it's morally wrong that's right for all the children unless we get a sponsor calling unless somebody is on the phone right now well I hate to tell you dude but we're gonna have more predictions for you when we are back for the next conow qualifying window and guys if you want to see that 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