Alexis Nunes

So it is obvious, I think, if I were Mauricio Pochettino, that Johnny Cardoso can certainly play the position.

And so, yeah, can he do it at the national team?

It's like, can he do it at Reigning out of Stoke?

That's the same sort of conversation, but he needs to prove it.

I agree that he hasn't been at his best.

Johnny Cardoso should be a player that has a role in this team, given what he does on a weekly basis.

But we're yet to see it with any sort of consistency.

But I do think that Pochettino has already made up his mind about Johnny Cardoso.

Even if he's not at his best in this game, I think he's seen enough, certainly seeing it live, with Atletico Madrid against Spurs, he's saw enough to say, this guy should be part of the picture.

By Weston McKinney.

and in the past has lacked the discipline and just hey how about let's stay in shape weston can we do that he hasn't been in best condition possible and i think that has been obvious for everybody to see and you see in the performances because he's not able to cover the ground that seems to have changed correct yeah but i still think discipline is a problem for him

And so, if indeed this is the way that the team is put together, and this guy is going to have freedom to go, and Malik Tillman is going to have some freedom to go and join Balogun, then this guy becomes critically important in covering all of this ground.

He can't just go and be a guy here and not be able to come back and then leave it all to Johnny Cardoso and say, Johnny, you're on your own, bro.

You do you.

I think the United States, and I've said this before many a time, they're so much better when Gio Reyna is playing alongside Christian Pulisic and he gives the freedom for Christian Pulisic to do

other things because Gio Reyna himself can create for himself and for others.

But if he doesn't prove it with the national team in these games against Belgium, against Portugal, his role is not going to be over here.

It's going to be closer to right there.

It's the most important camp for the players that are not in this camp.

If you're not in this camp,