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You're listening to the Footglitch Podcast.

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Love football, learn English.

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What issues do the Czech team have to contend with ahead of their game against Turkey?

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How good has the Euro 2024 tournament been so far?

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What sort of highlights and low points have there been?

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And how do we say that a goal is disallowed in a different way in English?

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Hello and welcome back to the Footglitch Podcast.

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I'm Zdenek Lukas and this is a football podcast which can help you develop your English learning skills

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and expand your vocabulary and much more than that.

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So today I'm going to talk just by myself and I would like to cover a few things.

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Let's start with my team, the Czech Republic Czechia.

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So unfortunately after two games we only have one point which is not really good at all.

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The good news is that we still have a chance.

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We just need to beat Turkey.

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A draw will most likely not be enough.

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We have a few problems namely Patrik Schick unfortunately seems to be injured.

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He has a calf problem.

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There are a lot of players on a yellow card as well but we can't think about that.

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We need to go into tackles in that game.

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Those players I think it's about five, six players.

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They are basically one yellow card away from suspension.

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If they get another yellow card and the Czech team makes it to the playoffs

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these players will not be able to play.

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They will have a one game ban.

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So it's not just us who have problems.

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The Turkish team, two of their center defenders from the starting lineup won't be able to play.

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I think they are suspended as well.

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So we will see what happens there.

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It looks like the weakness of the Turkish team is in their defense.

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So hopefully we will be able to exploit that.

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But you know what?

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It could also end up in a bad way.

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It's going to be really an unpredictable game.

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I really don't know what to expect from that game just like I wasn't sure about the Georgia game.

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But all I will say is that I'm hoping that there will be a fight from the Czech team.

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We were quite good against Georgia.

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I like the way we played.

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And if we win against Turkey, well, I will be absolutely delighted about that.

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But if we don't, at least I want to see that we have given it our all.

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I want to see our best performance of the season because it is the most important game.

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So if we lose, so be it.

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Fair enough. At least we have given it our best shot.

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That's the kind of attitude and mindset I want to see from our players.

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I really don't know what will happen though.

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I don't know. If you're asking me who you should put your money on, no idea.

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It could end in all sorts of ways, honestly.

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So, yeah, speaking of the mindset, I quite like the way the Czech players present themselves in the media.

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There are a lot of press conferences.

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Almost every day there is a press conference.

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And the Czech coach and the whole coaching staff, they have really improved that.

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If we compare it to the previous manager, they have really done a good job there.

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And I like the way they speak to the media.

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They are positive and they always use the right arguments.

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They say the right things.

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It's not always just cliches. I like it.

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I'm quite happy about that.

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And yeah, so this is the Czech team now.

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Let's talk about the tournament on the whole.

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I have to say so far I have been thoroughly enjoying this tournament for all sorts of reasons.

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I think there are so many stories to be told.

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And I'm recording this podcast.

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Let's say there are how many more games?

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I think about eight more games to be played.

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And then the group stage is over.

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And then we will have the playoffs.

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So I have to say that so far it's been great.

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And let's talk about the system of the tournament.

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I believe it's the second time that we have 24 teams.

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It's either second or third time. I don't know.

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But it's relatively new. It's a relatively new change.

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And UEFA has been pushing for this in the same way FIFA.

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They want more and more teams in the World Cup.

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And there is a lot of criticism as a result from all sides, from experts, pundits.

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Basically, this is happening because of a business.

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It's a trend. Everybody wants to make more money.

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UEFA, FIFA, they want to make more money from the TV rights, from everything, from the merchandise.

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So basically the issue is that the players play too many games.

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That's one problem.

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The same thing is happening with club football, with the Champions League and so on.

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But also there is an opinion that perhaps with so many teams,

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the quality of the actual tournament will be lower.

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And I don't think that's the case for this euro though,

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because we can see that a lot of teams have played fantastic football,

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even teams you might not expect it from.

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And they put up a fight.

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And it's great to watch.

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Also the gap between the big boys and the smaller teams has been really getting smaller, I can see.

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So from that point of view, I don't think this is an issue that we have 24 teams.

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Now another thing is the system itself.

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So we have got basically the first two teams automatically qualify for the playoffs,

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but then you have the four teams from the six groups, they qualify from the third places.

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So again, this is heavily criticised.

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I think there is a drawback.

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There is one drawback it has, and that's the speculation that sometimes draws are enough.

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For both teams to qualify.

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For example, there is a game happening tonight between Slovakia and Romania.

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And if both teams get a draw, they will most likely qualify.

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This is going to be a bit suspicious, you know,

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because understandably if they talk to each other before the game and they make a deal,

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can you really blame them?

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I mean, it's kind of an obvious thing to do, isn't it?

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It's almost like an instinct, right?

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You want to survive.

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But on the other hand, the question could be, is this how winners think, you know?

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Shouldn't winners be just ruthless?

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Because this sounds more like pragmatism.

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I'm speculating here.

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Maybe it won't happen.

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But I've checked the odds and the bookmakers say that a draw is the most likely outcome,

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which doesn't normally happen.

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Can you imagine?

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Two to one. Two to one are the odds for the draw.

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It's incredible, actually.

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And I put my bet on that as well, actually.

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So we will see what happens.

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But perhaps this system kind of lends itself to this sort of way of thinking, right?

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When you need a draw, when both teams need a draw, they will not press so much.

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They will not try to attack so much and they will both defend.

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And if two teams defend, well, it can only end in a goalless draw, right?

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So hopefully this won't happen.

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I still think, though, that the system is quite good because there are a lot of great matches

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and there are not so many dead rubbers.

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Now, dead rubbers are those games where you basically have nothing to play for.

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So since three teams can progress and these teams can be from different groups,

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there are so many permutations, right?

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There are so many combinations, things that could happen,

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which means that usually most of the teams play till the last game.

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Whereas with the old system, what used to happen is that sometimes the last game was about nothing

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because one team has already qualified, the other team didn't have a chance to qualify, right?

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So from that point of view, I think the system is not the worst.

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Now, regarding my best moments of the tournament so far, some highlights, but also some low points,

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the most interesting moments, let's say.

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So again, I'm recording on the 25th of June, so I'm sure there's plenty more to come.

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But we have to mention Luka Modric. Yesterday, there was a game Italy-Croatia.

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It was a fascinating game for all sorts of reasons.

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Luka Modric, the Real Madrid player who one month ago won the Champions League with Real Madrid

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and one of the greatest players ever to kick the football,

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he became the oldest ever goal scorer in the European Championship history at the age of, I believe, 38.

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It was an unprecedented moment, actually, because he missed the penalty

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and it looked like it would be a disastrous moment for him.

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But 20 seconds later, he actually scored a goal.

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So it was such a strong moment.

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But unfortunately for Croatia, they conceded with the very last kick of the game.

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It was such a sucker punch for them.

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It was basically a late equaliser scored by an Italian player, Zaccani or Mattia Zaccani.

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I don't know exactly how to pronounce his name.

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It was a wonder strike, a great finish.

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So this was a fascinating game, as I said.

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Then another great game that was decided in the late stage of the game was the game between Hungary and Scotland.

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The game itself wasn't that good, if I'm honest, but the way it finished, wow.

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Well, first of all, we have to mention there was a really, really bad injury to Barnabas Varga, the Hungarian player.

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And it sort of brought back some memories.

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It was a throwback to what had happened to Christian Eriksson at the previous Euros.

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It was such a powerful moment, especially when Dominik Soboslai, the Hungarian,

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ran towards the medical staff who seemed to be walking too slowly to help the player with the stretchers.

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They were just walking and Dominik Soboslai got really upset there and just pushed them

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to help that player as soon as possible because at that point it looked like it was really serious.

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The player seems to be OK.

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He's stable and apparently he broke his cheekbone.

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So Dominik Soboslai, what a great moment from him, I have to say.

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And then a great gift for this injured player, basically Hungarians, decided their game.

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Also with pretty much the last kick of the game, it was Kevin Csobot.

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I hope I'm pronouncing it correctly.

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And by this winning goal, he gave Hungary a decent chance to still make it out of the group stage.

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They only have three points, but it might be just enough.

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We will see because it depends on the other matches as well.

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So we have seen some really interesting late drama.

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Of course, we can also mention the goal that Czechia conceded against Portugal, which was in the 92nd minute.

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But I don't want to talk about that too much for obvious reasons.

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You can guess why.

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Well, it's my team that was on the receiving end of that.

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Right. And then we also have to again mention Christian Eriksson,

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who came back after that horrific moment when he pretty much died on the pitch three years ago in the previous Euro.

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But he came back and about 1100 days or something like that, he scored the first goal of the Danish team.

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It was a great goal, by the way.

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Unfortunately for them, though, it led to just a draw in the end because they drew against Slovenia

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and they still have all to play for.

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Yeah, we also should say that the Albanian player Mirlind Daku was banned by UEFA for two Euro 2024 games after nationalists chants.

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Basically, he was spurring his own fans to sing some abuse towards Serbians.

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And I believe it was, was it Serbians? I think it was Serbians and Macedonians.

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Balkan is such a complicated area, you know, and but he should he should definitely not do something like that.

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You know, you are a football player playing for the national team.

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You need to set the example for everyone else to behave. Right.

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So I don't want to moralize here. I don't want to preach. But this this should not be happening. Right.

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He made a mistake. He was punished rightfully, in my opinion.

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OK. And then we have to say that a lot of own goals have been scored at this tournament.

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The weirdest one, the most bizarre one, of course, was the one that Turkey scored against Portugal.

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It was an unbelievable own goal. I've already talked about this with one of my guests.

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Check it on YouTube if you haven't seen it yet. It's incredible.

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It's it's unbelievable how it even happened.

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And then we have seen some fantastic long range stunners.

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For example, I remember the one Arda Guler scored for Turkey.

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That was that was an incredible goal, of course.

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And then we have seen some really unlucky players like Lukaku, Romelu Lukaku, the Belgian striker.

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He basically scored three goals and each of them disallowed by VAR.

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How unlucky can this player be? Right.

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And one of them was disallowed by like one centimeter or something like that.

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It's it's unbelievable. Who do I think are the favorites now that we have seen the teams play?

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Well, I would say that I'm going to I'm going to narrow it down now to just Spain, Portugal and Germany,

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who I think seem to be seem to be in a good form.

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I know Germany drew to Switzerland and Switzerland plays so well in this game.

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But Germany are still Germany.

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I think Spain, Portugal, they look amazing and it will be really hard to play against them.

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And Germany. So these are my three favorites.

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France and England, the other teams that were tipped to win the tournament, they don't look that good.

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France didn't score a goal.

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They they have four points. That's because one of their games they won by an own goal as well of the opposite team.

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And England. Well, they look sluggish.

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They're heavily criticized by the media.

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The players are under so much pressure.

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But honestly, I would not I would not write off either of these teams because they are big teams.

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They have big players and anything can happen.

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As for the dark horses, Belgium, Netherlands, I'm not sure.

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Belgium don't look like it.

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Maybe the Netherlands.

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We will see. Not the teams from the Balkans. Not for me.

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Not anymore. We might see a surprise.

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You know, it's the playoffs. Anything could happen.

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It could be the Swiss team.

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It could be the Turkish team.

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It could be the Czech team.

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Hopefully we will see what happens.

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It's too early to call.

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But what I will say is that I have really been enjoying this tournament and I've been enjoying recording these podcasts for you as well.

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And yeah, I know you might be thinking Zdenek, but will you really keep recording podcasts like this?

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You can't keep it up.

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You publish your podcast every single day.

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I know I do.

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I think that's the most sustainable way to do this.

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So, for example, when the Premier League arrives and the new season starts, you can definitely look forward to episodes about that.

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I may say a few things about the Czech League and other leagues in Europe.

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But definitely the episodes will be published weekly.

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That's for sure.

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Anyway, I hope you have been enjoying these.

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I would like to know what you think.

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I would like to know if you have any kind of feedback.

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And if you do, please tell me.

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Send me an email.

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My email is teachersdenek at Gmail dot com.

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Or if you are interested in English lessons with me in private lessons, one to one lessons online, then use the same email.

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My lessons are based on a conversation about football.

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Imagine something like what my guests talk to me about in the episodes that have been published, something like that.

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Basically, this is my way of teaching.

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I make notes about my students' mistakes.

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We try to improve by students' English, of course.

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We focus on pronunciation, vocabulary and fluency mainly.

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Grammar is less important these days for me as a teacher.

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But anyway, that's that.

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I just wanted to tell you that you also have a chance to hire me as your teacher.

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Why not?

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So thank you very much for listening.

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And well, wait, I should teach you something, right?

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I always teach you something.

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Hang on.

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Let me work something out for you.

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Welcome back.

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It's time for the language corner.

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And I want to keep it really short today.

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So remember how I said that Lukaku's goals were disallowed by VAR, all three of them?

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Well, let's look at the word disallowed.

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I think you know what it means.

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If a goal is disallowed, it means it's cancelled.

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So they either just check it and then after the goal check, the goal is given.

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But if VAR disagrees with the decision of the referee, then they disallowed.

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The goal is disallowed.

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So the goal can be simply just reversed by VAR.

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We can say it's overturned by VAR.

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Commentators often talk about the goals ruled out.

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They are ruled out by VAR.

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Or even there is one sort of more slang word and that's to chalk off.

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That's more British, to chalk it off.

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So you can also chalk off a goal.

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Okay, guys, I think that's enough for today.

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And hopefully we will not see so many disallowed goals because it brings so many bad emotions.

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I am pro VAR by the way.

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I am pro VAR.

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I'm not against VAR.

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I think we need it.

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We need technology.

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It's the way forward.

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It's not perfect.

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Mistakes are being made.

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But at this tournament, it's much better than what we have seen before in the Premier League, for example, and so on.

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Okay, guys, thank you very much for listening.

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