Tuchel Keeps Proving Doubters Wrong - Rio Picks World Cup Dream Team

0:00This Monday.com ad was created by a team of people and AI agents. Reese, our content agent, wrote the copy based on our best practices, like mentioning Monday.com three times. That was the second. Johnny, our coordination agent, built the timeline and kept everyone aligned. Olivia, our human creative director, stayed in the loop. Because agents are great, but they don't always know when a joke lands. She had one note. Tell listeners it only takes minutes to build an agent. So, minutes. Create your own AI agent today on Monday.com. what you have to do is you've got to name your best five-a-side no goalkeepers in this tournament Mbappe's up front it's in the two tens Bellingham and um Messi I'm going Rodri at the back and Haaland thanks good night

0:54yes guys welcome to Rio presents and you know what this is a bit of an emotional one man because Guys, this is your last show. You're going home. I'm going home. Last one in America, at least. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've done enough to stay on another year, boys, haven't we? I think so. I think so. Good views and all that. Yeah, man. Look at the views, man. Airbnb have looked after us, haven't they? The last house we had, I mean, the views were spectacular there. The gym was banging. The pool was lovely. The house was great. But then all of a sudden, we got this one. And it's just... These views are a different level, man.

1:25Waking up in my bedroom where I woke up, yeah. Wow. I'm looking at over there. I didn't know there was an additional room, you know? Wow. Like, you know, when we had the live audience, they were like, oh, what's going on on the other side of the house? I was just like, there is another side of the house. The other wing. Yeah. And then someone from Airbnb said, no, that's Rio's room. I said, oh, okay. Sometimes you need a bit of downtime, innit? So that's what it was. And that's been brilliant though. We've done all types of stuff, innit? Horse riding, see Steve dressed up like an original cowboy.

1:54Yeah. That was your best part, I think, of what we've done together. It was. Yeah? my daughter's on to me I am going to be a horse rider by the time I get home I'll have a whole kit ready and waiting to go on a horse seriously a professional horse rider I bet there's some horses in Dubai and all the horse that she's got jeez it's massive as well the ones we had were quite a decent side her one at least a foot or two bigger mad no it was crazy like obviously we've got jacuzzi time barbecues you know we've done it all playing football in the back one time one time crossbar hits yeah that's what we do man Gym sessions.

2:29The gym sessions, mate. I think I've caught up, you know. Have you? Have you? Yeah. Okay. What did you think this morning of his gym session? Well, he was here. Oh, no. Yeah, was he? I thought you'd done it. You know what? You got through it. Yeah, I did. I did. Just? I did. Just. Just about, you know. Anyway, listen. There's been so much good football, but the most important thing for me is it's one of those tournaments where the big boys have stepped up, you know. That's the headline of this tournament. Yeah. Yeah. I've been really, really impressed. and I'm surprised as well. Who have you seen that stepped up and what have you thought about that?

3:02I think the fact that there's been more teams which allowed some nations of lesser quality join the party has enabled the superstars to be a bit more bullish and bully some of those teams. They haven't laid down and just rolled over, but they've been able to exert themselves and kind of be a little bit more loose, it felt. And the big superstars, I don't think we've seen them score this many goals. We haven't seen them score this many goals in one tournament. You'd normally get one breakout guy, does it? not a whole host of them. And all of the superstars, bar maybe one or two, have come out and done what you would expect them to do coming into the tournament based on the level that they play at.

3:37Would you agree with that, Steve? Yeah, I think Ronaldo and maybe Bruno of maybe the standout ones off the top of my head where I go... Martina as well. Yeah. Well, Portugal in general, I would say, in terms of when you look at the squad they've had available to them, I think they underperformed. Yeah. And they've probably been a little bit of a letdown. But outside of that, everyone has stepped up and we even saw Jamal in the quarters stepping up. I thought that was his best game that he had as well. He had some moments in that game. Yeah. You go, oh, wow. What about Brazil? The nation that we all love.

4:11It's not the same Brazil, is it? Brazil ain't been the same for, I reckon, probably 10 years. They ain't been the same even maybe longer, but they just, no one expected Brazil to be going and dominating this World Cup. You might have seen moments like you did with Vinicius, but they didn't even have Rafinha. Again, he wasn't fitting enough. Do you know what I mean? So you look at their squad, Estabelle, you look at their squad and you go, yeah, they were missing one or two, but I still don't think that makes them one of the teams that's challenging. I want to ask you both, moments of the tournament, please.

4:39Now, there's been a lot of excitement, but what stood out to you? Cape Verde, scaring a life out of Argentina. I thought that was a great moment. And the quality, by the way, of the second goal, the curler into the top corner. I just, I loved it. I loved it. Oh my gosh. What about yourself, Steve? It is that, but I'm just trying to think of something else for just another angle to it. I would say that hour when we thought Egypt might be putting Argentina out, maybe, that felt good. The underdog man, isn't it? That's what it is. I just love an underdog. The same when I was watching Cape Verde, and I was like, I want nothing more than Cape Verde to go through it.

5:15I would love to have seen it. But, you know, added to that, I don't think you can go past the fact that we spoke about before. all of the big players have stepped up, bar a couple. And that has got to be what this tournament kind of soundbite is the biggest soundbite from this. I'm going to say it has to be the Congo playing in the World Cup. First time in 52 years. Yeah, another one. And I've been educated as well because I can't act as if I've been following Congolese football and knowing everything about it. But new education for me. And it's not Dr. Congo, it's DR Congo. No, but we're saying Dr.

5:45Congo because it's just stuck and it's funny. Favourite goal so far in the tournament? I'm going to start off with you, Steve. I want to nominate Ahmad. Oh, yeah, that was nice. Or was it Mbappe against Senegal? The distance one. There's a couple there. Just because he's a United player, I'm going to throw. I'm going with Ahmad then, just for that. I'm going to go Mbappe. The one that he'd done, it was more of a team goal and then he back-heeled it out wide. Then it came into Alise, slipped him in and shifted back. Mbappe moved. Yeah, it's lovely, yeah. Lovely goal. I'm going for Carbell, Kebo Verdi goal.

6:20the one when we thought they're going to do it you know that curler from the left hand side boom top bins honestly didn't see it coming so yeah I'll give that to them favourite kit so far in a tournament Spain away is a nice one it is isn't it Mexico haven't missed with their home underway and their third one have they worn the black one have they no but I've seen the black one it's too hot but the black one's sick yeah do you know what let's give them some props he's got Mexico for me home underway I like France's kit France home kit sick I like Spain's one, the one that looks like the Arsenal shirt.

6:52That one's sick. I'm like, ah, I've seen this before. I've got to say, the hoodies, the hoodie, the warm-up tops, I think most countries have hit. The England one's sick, the silver one. And that bit of space, you're like, I love it. Jamaica would have won if they'd have been here. Yeah. Mate, they would have told you they won, even if they didn't, I'll tell you that. I'd have backed it. Right, man, we've got loads still to come, right, on this pod, but we'll be back shortly after this. This Monday.com ad was created by a team of people and AI agents. Reese, our content agent, wrote the copy based on our best practices, like mentioning Monday.com three times.

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8:22You know, during the tournament, we always see new trends, things that pop up that slowly start sneaking their way back into the Premier League. Is there anything that you've seen so far, tactics wise, that you go, oh, that's been different? I've liked the fact that some teams have identified that a team are good at pressing them. So we will go over the press, direct into the front man and then work off of that. Even the quarterfinal game between Spain and Belgium, they were going direct into the striker, feeding off it with Trossard and Kevin De Bruyne off to the front man. And they were getting a bit of joy from that.

9:01So I think that's sensible football. Not the perfect way of playing, where you want to openly play like that. But if the game calls for that, far too many teams are going, oh, we'll just keep playing through the press and getting pickpocketed and then giving up chances. Yeah, we didn't see, like, the start of the Premier League season last year, there were so many mistakes that people got caught out with the press. I haven't really seen that. There has been goals like that, but it's not been, like, a trend of it. The two trends that I think I've spotted is full-backs are staying more apart with the back four rather than bombing into the final third, as much as I thought they would do.

9:35A lot of teams are holding at least three, if not all four, back in their half or on the halfway line when they're attacking. and giving themselves a pretty strong rest defense. The other one is, and it's probably linked actually, teams aren't using overloads as much as I would thought. And I don't know if I'm prejudicing my own thinking here, but I'm picturing France when I say this. France are asking people to take their man on 1v1 a lot more. It seems like. It seems like there's a lot of that. People are being trusted to go 1v1 rather than overload to beat someone. I think France have to be the outlier in this because they've got four or five players who can all beat anyone on the planet.

10:13so it's like why am I going to risk players going forward when I can leave him to do that on his own you don't want to leave Barco coming up against you he's a sub but you look at Spain Cucurellas doing that inside underlap all day long do you know what I mean and you've got Pedro Poro on the right hand side coming inside as well not going out but that's the difference I think they're not going outside that's the Spain team in isolation Spain was a little bit different I think they had a ton possession in that quarterfinal, but they weren't having a lot of shots, which is why I think it ended up being as tight as it was.

10:49You know what I've seen? I don't know if this is tactical or not, but it's the penalties. It's a little run up, step up, miss. That depends, doesn't it? What's going on? Have we seen as many rubbish penalties in one World Cup ever? We need to check the stats, but I think there's like over 10 % that have been missed. More than that, more than that, much more. The run up, Messi and Mbappe missing. like the best player Baggio's missed people miss penalties but them run ups it's the style man please man it's mad innit unless you've done that run up all your life get yourself away from it unless you're Bruno Fernandes he does a little hot thing he doesn't do it anymore either so yeah that was crazy unless you're Giannino was it Giannino used to do it Pernambucano that was a free kick taker and a half every time we do a Rio meet this is Rio Presents but every time there's a Rio meet Rio you sit there and you ask the superstar to name a five a side team right but I'm going to ask you to do that this time we're going to switch up a little bit though you don't just tell us you're no goalkeepers no goalkeepers well actually weirdo what we're saying no goalkeepers but what you have to do is you got to name your best five aside no goalkeepers in this tournament okay on top of that you can't pick two players from one nation okay all right so what are you saying before you start which defenders have impressed you in this tournament if any oh come on no you have to say Upa Meccano and Saliba have been solid any individual 1v1 battles they've just taken the ball off people it's not even been a challenge they've been my two centre-halves in this tournament the Slane team hadn't conceded a goal but I think that was more of a team effort you don't think Kovasi's been there no I saw the goal against Belgium the fours got across him I think he's been good up to that point you know but yeah I don't think he's been overly tested.

12:38He's great on the ball. He's got some great balls. But I'm just saying, every time there's a 1v1 duel anywhere on the pitch, those two come out on top nine times out of ten. So those two have been really solid. But I'm going to go for my first pick, Zimbabwe. Okay, so you're starting up top. Yeah, my team isn't going to be full of defensive and it's going to be the best players. Don't cheat, man. I'm putting my best players in. Put them in the right positions at least. You can't go, oh yeah, I'm going to pick Zimbabwe. It's a five-a-side. It's a five-a-side. I'm going to pick... Five aside. Centre-fours can play centre-back in a five aside.

13:10Bro, honestly, man. What are you, what are you, specs? No rules. No rules, specs. Come on, man. Mbappe's up front. It's in the two tens, Bellingham, Bellingham and Messi. I'm going Roderick at the back and Haaland. Thanks. Good night. I don't even know where they're playing. Don't matter, it's five-side. That team wins. that team scores that team wins what are you saying Steve I'd like Hakimi in there I think he's been class this tournament and he's going both ways Rodri's my defender I'll take Rodri I had Rodri in my head and I had Kane but I was going to go with Alise and Alise I think Alise feeding balls in for Haaland would be a problem for anybody to deal with I'm going to be different here I'm going to go and pass Ian goal because he represented us a lot a lot a lot of good a lot of good saves for Congo.

14:06You have to plan against my team. Yeah. At the back I'll probably go for I know you don't think he did well. What about me? No I'm just I'm going to say it. I think Kabat-Z should be in there. That's good. I like him. Yeah. I think Jude, Elise and Haaland. Your team's baggy. Is it? Your team's getting smoked. Is it really? If I give you 300 mil players that you've seen at this tournament who are you signing? You're in charge of a club for the summer. Yeah. It's realistic people you can get you can't get Messi you can't get Mbappe Rodri Rodri or like Lamin-Yamao those Harlins they're just out of the picture I would go and get is it Bradi from Morocco the 18 year old midfielder 100 % I'm taking him building stuff around him takes the ball manipulator controls the momentum of the game speeds it up slows it down can beat the press he's my he's my conductor

15:11I'm going to Paris Saint-Germain with my my shopping bags and taking Bacola out of that place because he's the one you can get you can't get Douay you can't get Karish Gala so I'm taking Bacola if Bacola improves his finishing yeah listen if Bacola can't play for me bro wow he's becoming one of the best in the world the way I'd have him moving so Bacola and then I'm going to go...

15:38I'm going against Saliba. He's not gettable. Yeah, but he's not a big club, is he? So he's up for a move. You need another player. Rio's right. He's ready for a step up for a European elite. He won the league now. They asked him a few months ago, do you want to go Real Madrid? He goes, why would I go Real Madrid when I've got so much to do here? Yeah, because he hadn't won the league yet. Yeah, but he's still got to do the Champions League. He hadn't won the league yet. Did you expect him to tell the truth? Yeah, because he didn't need to say anything. Is it your first day on the internet? Oh, come on, man.

16:08No, no, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. He's going to be at Arsenal for the next few years, don't worry. But he's the one I would go, come on, we're going to build. Let's go and build. All right, I'll go. Konza. Mate, he's getting better and better with each international tournament. And for me, I've actually always said I think he's better than Mark Gay, even though there was the hype around Mark. I reckon for me, he's the one. I think the difference is he's a little bit older and it's a little bit tricky because you're at Villa now and you're playing Champions League. Where do you go? But for me, top player.

16:37I think second, Barcola, you are spot on, Rio. Copy, copy me. The pace on that boy is ridiculous. Once he starts finishing properly, it's over. And my final pick has to be Alvarez. I love the player. Of course, you don't see everything he does because Messi is the top dog and everybody's talking about Messi. But if you give me Alvarez, we're winning the league for another two seasons in a row. I like that. Is this for Arsenal, yeah? For Arsenal. Oh, okay. I was just taking who I thought would have been standouts. Like, gettable players. Sorry. One that we know is probably not gettable, but I have to throw him in would have been Chiumeney.

17:22Presumably for United. But I'm throwing him in the mix anyway, even though we know he's just signed the new deal and it's probably not likely. I'm going with Gilbert Omura as my little bit of a wild card because he's done well. I did like Buwadi. But from a United point of view, I actually think... Not that we've seen him. I would have gone like Oli Watkins somewhere because I think we need someone that's going to challenge him, but he's not as sexy enough as he is. I would have probably gone... The whole tournament? Yeah. So that makes me... I can't use that because he's not really played. I would say Hakimi again.

17:54I think that would level up what United are doing. He's just signed a new contract for PSG. Come on. You're ruining the game. He's old enough that they'd flip him, I reckon. Nah, man. He's just signed a mad contract. I've got 300 mil sitting here. If that's what you want, that's what you get. Absolute cheaters. Boys, huge semi-final coming up. Massive win for England. Talk to me, man. How does it feel and are you confident that we can go ahead and do it now? Yeah, all we need to do is get over the line. It doesn't matter how you do it. Just get over the line, win the game and get through. And no one remembers how you played in the quarter-finals, semi-finals no one cared if you get your hands on that trophy by a hook or by a crook everyone's celebrating even the final you can be bad in the final as long as you lift it I totally agree and I think as I said we're a team I think we've been through enough hardship got enough experience that are putting us in a position that we can deal with all situations that are thrown at us speaking of winning stuff and not being very good what?

18:49wow what are you talking about? bro come on man it don't matter you go on as if United won every game and they were tops no sometimes they won at the last minute sometimes it was a bit scrapey but you don't remember that all you remember is the name on the trophy that's all you remember we weren't boring but I have to say and I'm not going to ask you because you're there was a lot of doubts about Thomas Tuchel coming into this tournament Thomas Tuchel shutting people up and good I'm glad I'm delighted tell them to shut up Thomas big Thomas look down the camera at me and tell them people to shut up as soon as you win that trophy throw your beer over someone and walk out the press conference don't have it you know there's going to be a reporter that goes and asks them and says Rio Ferdinand told you to tell people to shut up to throw beer at you yeah if I was Thomas that's what I'd do I'd just leave especially there's always one little egg in there and you remember him because they ask the stupidest questions all the time because they got it in for you he should just fill up a beer you know like in the fan parks when we score a goal and the beers just go everywhere you should just do that over him over that geezer I think you're justified in doing that if you win yeah you will and that geezer will love it Cristiano, you see when he called out someone?

19:56Yeah, good. Good. Yeah, you've got to call them out. Yeah. Obviously, me and him are heading home. What have you got planned? Are you slumming it around Beverly Hills? No, you know what? I'm going to change a bit of scenery, you know? Me and Airbnb, we're going to be going to New York, checking it out, seeing what's going on. I cannot wait to get down there. And that's the end of the World Cup, where hopefully we're lifting the trophy. But I told you, I'd take you everywhere that you don't necessarily get to see all the time. And we have done that, and we're going to continue to do that on the channel.

20:21Thank you very much for watching with us. We do appreciate you. make sure you follow us on socials and yes Stephen Hansen Joel Bale going home but Rio staying signing out peace it's been a blast

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