Archie Rhind-Tutt
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I wouldn't say, despite even being quite close to the stadium here in LA, I'm out by the beach.
And I wouldn't say that in this city you can really feel that there's a buzz around it because LA is so big and it sprawls in the way it does.
I do think that, look, they've got off to fast starts now in each of their three group games.
And I think this was obviously the most inconsequential of them.
I wonder how they'll go if they struggle to break a team down a bit.
I think that Bosnia are going to be a tough nut to crack if it is them that they do eventually face.
They are going to have to face some adversity and I'm looking forward to seeing how they do with that.
As for Turkey, it's been such a disappointing tournament for them.
And this was a game where even though they've won, they couldn't really win because their fans will go, well, we're working for the two previous games in the tournament.
And Vincenzo Montella has taken such heat away
for some of his decisions in the tournament.
For example, the fact that Dennis Gull, their only true number nine, played 22 minutes in the first two games.
The fact that their best players didn't turn up in Guller, Yildiz, Calhanoglu.
Calhanoglu left out tonight as well.
But there have been lots of
problems, issues that have been raised, whether it's about the association not taking a sports psychologist with them because the players had difficulty switching off from the criticism of them due to their spare time activities of just making sure that their haircuts and beards were looking all right, is one line that I've heard.
So, yeah, it's amazing how...
how these things, to what factors then get put as important when you go out.
But yeah, like huge, huge underperformance from them.
The fact that Tony Popovich rotated again, but this time found, I think, what was a pleasing line-up for Australia and a better balance to the team.