Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic

So obviously, I imagine there's a lot of conversation.

Someone like Ralph Preso, the Vancouver Whitecaps, will be on standby.

I think the fact that Bombido...

isn't a hundred percent kind of puts priest on the edge anyways to replace marcelo flora is something we're still waiting to find out but uh it's clear that something's up with bombito and now we'll see over the next few days what marsh really uh was kind of hinting at what he kind of joked yesterday yeah i still haven't made that replacement yet how concerning is all this flora is bombito those are those are pretty important players

Well, Bombido really is the biggest one so far because he's kind of in that core group, I'd say, of, well, five, six best players on this Canadian team straight up.

Like, he's there in terms of the Alphonso Davies, the Jonathan Davids, you know, Ismail Kone, Tejan Buchanan.

He's in that group, and arguably of them, he's Canada's most important player.

You could probably have a convincing argument to make because of,

how quick he is, how strong of a defender, with how Canada's going to play, which is high-pressing, aggressive.

He's the sort of guy that can make a system like that tick, and not having him on the field makes Canada worse defensively.

So absolutely, it's a concern with Bambino, and it's just a concern in general because...

Now you're looking at the core of this team being affected by these injuries.

Ali Ahmed is another one that, you know, he doesn't look like he'll be 100% for the World Cup opener.

And Canada's missed him in these past few games, not having that presence on the left wing.

Marcelo Flores, like mentioned earlier, we hadn't seen a lot of him.

So it's not as if you're talking about a huge, huge loss of someone who's

central this team but he was a wild card he was an x factor i got a kind of guy that could break open world cup games we don't have to talk about davies how important he is with just you know he's canada's best player full stop he is at canada's most talented player and just not having him on the field will will make canada less dynamic so it definitely hurts because the way i see it is canada's losing a lot of ceiling raisers with all these injuries the

They've still got a solid squad, but they're missing a lot of guys now that could help them win World Cup games, that could help them tip over the top when it comes to getting decisive results.

Yeah, well, I think Luke DeFugio has done enough to earn that opportunity.

I mean, the credit to him, like he said, 20.