Ali Moreno

It will be because you outfought and outran and scored in a set piece.

That is the more likely scenario.

What I don't understand is why this team pretends to be something that they're not.

They're not good enough, and by Pochettino's own admission, they're not good enough to outplay Portugal.

So why are you trying to do that?

How about you use these games in playing against superior opposition to

make it into the framework, into the blueprint of how is it that you can go about beating superior teams in the World Cup.

Making it into a fight, making it into a physical game, making it into set pieces, making it into being difficult to beat.

That hasn't been the case for Pochettino teams since he got to the national team.

He's always made it about how we're going to play out of the bag, and we're going to do this, and we're going to dominate games, and we're going to...

All those things are fine and well against CONCACAF opposition.

And even then, they've had some struggles.

But once you get to the better teams, to the superior teams, which is what we have seen so far, they struggle because they don't know how to grind.

And it's not something that you learn a couple of months away from the World Cup.

So hang on if you're the United States, strap on because this is going to be a really difficult conversation that we're going to have to have during the World Cup.

Why is that?

What happened?

When do we ask questions of Thomas Tuchel?

Well, we would get knocked out in the round of 16 of the quarter-finals.

This is prior to any game being played against Uruguay and Japan.