Ben Fisher

There's been so many upsets.

There's been Qatar nicking something against Switzerland.

There's been Cape Verde holding Spain.

There's been Saudis stopping Uruguay.

The upsets have been coming.

And as the match drew near, I became increasingly convinced and terrified that the upsets would come for us as well.

And then when we played not well in the first half, I thought Iraq...

Iraq should get credit.

Iraq had really done their homework, I felt.

I got the sense that they picked their moments in terms of pressing, and they really targeted those of our players who are not super comfortable on the ball.

They really made us uncomfortable, and we couldn't play the way we really want to, certainly for the...

Certainly for the first quarter, when we had the drinks break, that's definitely not an ad break, and we got into the second quarter of the game.

We obviously scored a very, very good goal, a nicely worked move, and that settled everyone down a little bit.

But then they equalized, and then, yeah, when the equalizer comes, I'm thinking, yeah, we're the Swiss now, or we are the Spain, or we are Uruguay, whoever.

I thought the upset was coming.

And I'm just really relieved that we got through it, even though it was a scruffy performance that probably won't have convinced anyone.

Except for we know that Erling Haaland is a beast.

He's right on it physically.

He's in great shape at the moment.

He's so hungry.