EURO 2020: Inside the Euros Podcast

Rik Sharma and David Gibbs welcome back Joe Cassinelli and Kieran Canning to chat about the semi-final action and look forward to Sunday's showpiece final at Wembley.

--Joy in the streets of London

--Sneaking in

--The start of a long Three Lions dominance...

--Can England hold their nerve?

--Italy struggle against Spain

--Joe's persistent tennis analogy

--Penalties and why you shouldn't be worried

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Rik Sharma and David Gibbs welcome commentator and Italian football expert Sheridan Bird and Reuters’ Spain reporter Richard Martin for a pod analysing the semi-finals. TV3 commentator Jesper Simo joins from Denmark to give his perspective.

--Should Southgate change system?

--Danish relish being underdogs

--Eriksen influence or genuine strength?

--Italy vs Spain midfield battle

--Luis Enrique's Madrid resentment

--Spinazzola absence

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Description:  Rik Sharma (oiled up) and David Gibbs welcome back AFP sports wizard Kieran Canning to analyse the quarter-finals. England reach the semis against Denmark, Spain will face Italy.

Running order:

--Kane back to his best

--Opened up for England

--Rest for the Three Lions

--Denmark toil in Baku

--Italy deserved it

--Is Immobile good enough?

--Spain's weaknesses in the box

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Euro 2020: Quarters incoming, England v Ukraine, Belgium v Italy and the rest

We’re at the Euro 2020 quarter-finals and bring you a jumbo pod to preview them all. Rik Sharma and David Gibbs welcome Tim Lee, fresh from Baku, and Joe Cassinelli in Munich to chat about this weekend’s action.

Plus there is expert insight from:

Andrew Todos (@ZoryaLondonsk, Ukraine)

Scott Coyne (@BelgianPodcast, Belgium)

Craig King (@FootballSwissEN, Switzerland)

Tom Danicek (@CzechFooty, Czech Republic)

--Tim's Baku experiences

--Southgate's rotation dilemma

--Classic England to lose now?

--Ukraine strengths/weaknesses

--Italy or Belgium, who is better?

--Lukaku vs Chiellini

--KDB and Eden Hazard doubts

--Spain hitting form

--Switzerland's best ever night

--Denmark's Damsgaard

--Czech mate?

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Rik Sharma and Dave Gibbs welcome back an oiled-up Joe Cassinelli from Munich to analyse England’s win over Germany, Ukraine beating Sweden, Spain’s wild affair with Croatia and France’s elimination. Jonathan Johnson (@jon_legossip) on the line to tell us about the France situation after Deschamps drops the ball. 

--England's best win in years

--Sterling and Kane

--Jorgi's Low point

--Sheva scores

--Joe's apology to Switzerland

--Favourites France out

--Mbappe failure

--Jonathan Johnson analyses

--Spain's keeper problem

--Morata redemption?

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Rik Sharma and David Gibbs welcome back Joe Cassinelli, this time from Copenhagen, to analyse the action. We also have Dutch football expert James Rowe* on the show to chat about the Netherlands shock defeat by the Czech Republic.

Running order:

--Portugal push held off

--Ronaldo narrative over

--Bruno cameo

--Do Belgium convince?

--Italy given a warning

--Brave pressing Austria

--Dutch disaster

--Rowe's lowdown

--Danish delight

--Wales out of their depth

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Rik Sharma and David Gibbs welcome back statman Jonny Blain and Evening Standard writer Simon Collings, to look ahead to the Euro 2020 last 16. They go through each game and pick some things to look out for.

Wales vs Denmark

Italy vs Austria

Netherlands vs Czech Republic

Belgium vs Portugal

Croatia vs Spain

France vs Switzerland

England vs Germany

Sweden vs Ukraine

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Rik Sharma, Joe Cassinelli (The Times) and Richard Martin (Reuters) analyse the last Euro 2020 group stage games. They are joined by ESPN's Archie Rhind-Tutt (@archiert1 on Twitter), to chat about the action in Germany, while Kieran Canning (AFP), waves goodbye to his beloved Scotland.

--Joe is wet and not in a good way
--Germany struggle against Hungary
--No rainbow lights, but Munich makes its point
--German confusion over J. Sancho
--France vs Portugal thriller as CR7 hits 109
--King Karim arrives, Mbappe yet to score
--Spain finally deliver in Seville heat
--Modric in Scotland vs Croatia
--All those years and done in eight days...

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Rik and Dave are joined by Italy expert Sheridan Bird, The Times's Joe Cassinelli and The Other Bundesliga podcast presenter Tom Middler to talk about the week's action so far.

--Italy sail onwards

--Rocky comparisons

--Sirigu's sub appearance

--Welsh resilience

--Austria qualify

--Disappointing Ukraine

--Denmark everyone's second side?

--Lukaku and KDB get job done

--Impressive Finland

--English struggles

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Rik and Dave welcome back triumphant Scot Kieran Canning (AFP) to the podcast, while Joe Cassinelli is on from Munich and RicharD Martin bells in from Seville. There’s a lot to talk about… 

--Kieran on Scotland's Wembley heroics

--Why is Kane broken?

--Sancho sidelined

--Favourites France stumble

--Hungary's home advantage

--Germany demolish Portugal

--Great Gosens

--Spain suffer again

--Morata, Moreno, misses

--Best goal so far

--Group standings ahead of final games

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Rik and Dave are joined by an oiled up Joe Cassinelli in Munich and they chat Belgium, Netherlands, penalty misses, coke bottle chaos and more. Martin Domin, down from Scotland for the game at Wembley, phones in. On this episode:

--KDB with the best individual performance so far
--Eriksen tribute
--Denmark's heavy pressure
--Memphmiss Depay
--Netherlands join Italy in last 16
--Ukraine playing lovely stuff
--Penalty failures
--Coke bottle running joke
--England v Scotland preview
--Drunk Scots phone in
--Spain's goal problem

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Italy made it through to the knock-out rounds with a 3-0 win over Switzerland, while Wales beat Turkey 2-1 in Baku. Rik rounds up the day's action and talks to Özer Dindjer about what went wrong with Turkey, who were touted as dark horses. Come back Thursday night for another round up and the next full pod will be on Friday morning. 

Rik and Dave are joined by Joe Cassinelli and AFP's Kieran Canning to look at France's win over Germany, Cristiano Ronaldo's brace for Portugal and picking out their top moments so far.

--Parachute nightmare

--Pogba domination

--Mbappe's terrifying pace

--Power ranking best Euro 2020 teams

--Schicking moment for Kieran

--Best game so far?

--Biggest disappointment

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Here's your nightly round up as the Group of Death action began. Portugal 3-0 Hungary wasn't as easy as it seemed for Cristiano and Co, while France might have beaten Germany by more than one in the other game. Rik talks you through the day's action and he'll be back on Wednesday morning with Dave, Joe Cassinelli and Kieran Canning for a proper look at the first week of the Euros. 

Rik runs you through a rapid round up of day four of Euro 2020, with Spain unable to score despite dominating possession against Sweden, Scotland beaten by a Schick brace and Slovakia taking a surprise Group E lead after beating Poland.

Come back on Tuesday night for another quickfire summary and then on Wednesday morning we pod again, with Rik and Dave joined by Joe Cassinelli and Kieran Canning.

Rik and Dave welcome Joe Cassinelli and AFP’s Tom Allnut to chat England, Netherlands and Spain. Richard Martin from Reuters reports from Seville ahead of La Roja's debut against Sweden.

--Christian Eriksen update

--Southgate gets it right

--Phillips and Sterling

--NED vs UKR, best game so far

--Wild Arnautovic 

--Spain pain in build-up

--Southern heat

--Shambolic La Cartuja

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Quick round up from Rik of England beating Croatia 1-0, Netherlands edging Ukraine 3-2 and Austria's 3-1 victory over North Macedonia.

On Monday morning we'll have a full pod with Dave, Joe Cassinelli and AFP's Tom Allnut.

The first of our nightly round-ups, taking a look at the day's action in Euro 2020. We run a little longer tonight after the scary and shocking incident that saw Christian Eriksen go off on a stretcher after suddenly collapsing. Luckily he is OK and recovering in hospital. (Get well soon Christian!)

Finland earned an historic victory in their first Euros appearance, although it was overshadowed for obvious reasons. Elsewhere Romelu Lukaku hit two to inspire Belgium to a 3-0 win over Russia and Wales and Switzerland drew 1-1 in Group A.

Join us on Monday for the next full episode, looking at England v Croatia, Netherlands vs Ukraine and Austria vs North Macedonia.

Rik and Dave are joined by Alasdair Mackenzie of Reuters to analyse the opening game of the Euros. Alasdair was in Rome for the opening ceremony and the game and we got stuck in to topics including:

--Fireworks and Bocelli

--Fans in the Olympic Stadium

--Azzuri start strong

--'Entertainers' style

--The Mancini effect

--Spinazzola performance

--No star names for Italy

--Verratti still to add

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Rik, Dave and Joe take stock of everything they've learned since launch and reassess their tournament predictions. They also welcome statman Jonny Blain, who works for the BBC, UEFA and others, to get his perspective on the games ahead.

--What have we learned?

--Belgium's defence

--Dave's Finland regret

--Ronaldo stats stand out

--More goals expected

--Declan Rice's first pint

--Scotland goodies

--Best and worst kits

--Fantasy picks

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Rik and Dave are with Joe Cassinelli for the final group preview pod, as well as special guests Jonathan Johnson, Tom Kundert and Dr. Manuel Veth.

--Are France favourites?

--King Karim returns

--Cristiano still the king

--Bruno not the lynchpin he is for Man United

--Short at the back?

--Don’t write off the Germans

--Gnabry, Sane and Werner

--Hungary’s home crowd

--Poor fellas

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Rik and Dave are joined by Joe (him again) Cassinelli, Alexandra Jonson and Jordan Lewis Butler to look at Group E, which might prove a tight one. 

--Spain’s Covid chaos

--No Ramos, no Madrid

--Goalscoring problems

--Zlatan out is a good thing

--Isak’s potential at the Euros

--Forsberg still crucial

--Lewandowski FC

--Zielinski and Klich’s creativity

--Hamsik’s return to Europe

--Mean Slovakians

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Rik and Dave are on with Joe Cassinelli and AFP football writer Kieran Canning to talk about England’s dream, Scotland getting to their first tournament since 1998, World Cup runners-up Croatia and West Ham. Sorry, the Czech Republic.

--Is Southgate good enough?

--England’s attacking dilemma

--Three Lions better than in 2018

--Steve Clark’s canny Scots

--Robertson and Tierney problem

--Evergreen Modric

--Can Petkovic be the goal grabber?

--Coufal and Soucek

--Joe backing Czechs hard

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Rik and Dave welcome back Joe Cassinelli and Netherlands expert Michael Statham, Andrew Todos to talk Ukraine and Jordan Lewis Butler, who has been deep diving on North Macedonia.

--De Boer debacle

--Cillessen fury

--Is Depay world class?

--Wijnaldum and De Jong roles

--Shevchenko revolution

--Alaba’s Austria position

--Good feet for a big man?

--The legend of Goran Pandev

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HLN journalist Kristof Terreur digs into Belgium to lead our analysis of Group B.

--Red Devils title hopes

--Fear of France

--Doku can explode

--Hazard fitness and fears

--Is the defence past it?

--Denmark’s high-profile stars

--A solid core

--Russia’s mad coach

--Can they use home advantage again?

--Dave defends Finland

--Pukki Party

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Rik and Dave are joined by Vieri Capretta and Joe Cassinelli to tackle Group A.

--Vieri on Italy’s recovery

--An attacking Italy?

--Joe gives his verdict on that bizarre squad naming show. Why were they dressed like a marching band?

--Lille duo to power Turkey

--Dark horses for the tournament

--Can Wales repeat 2016 heroics?

--Gareth Bale, fit and primed to destroy

--Switzerland, neutral and boring?

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Episode description: Rik and Dave are joined by Joe Cassinelli and Vieri Capretta for the first episode of Inside the Euros.

Joe will be based in Munich during the tournament and Vieri is in Rome. Discussed on this episode:

--Tournament all over Europe

--Best Euros memories

--Eder and Trezeguet

--French domination

--Doubts about Belgium

--You can't rule out the Germans

--Team of the tournament prediction

--Haaland, Oblak, which names are missing?

--Who wins Euro 2020?

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Rik and Dave announce the podcast to keep you company through Euro 2020. News, views, chats to players, coaches, reporters and more from all over the continent.