Ben Steiner

Morning, Ben.

How are you?

Morning, boys.

It's certainly an exciting time in, I guess, every sport at this point with the news coming out of Edmonton, but Canadian soccer on an absolute high right now.

I was at training a couple of times this week and both these guys looked quite good.

The difficulty with both of them is how do they look in a match?

And I don't think we can really consider what Moise Bombido did against Qatar as a proper run out because there wasn't much defending to do in that game when he came on in the second half.

And so I wouldn't necessarily start either of them.

Jesse Marsh did say last week that Alphonso Davies wouldn't start either.

against switzerland and they were targeting the round of 32 for that of course they are now going through to the round of 32 barring anything absolutely exceptional i think would have to be around a seven nil win for qatar for them not to get there and that's not going to happen but with davies i think you still want to be careful and the same with bombito but you do want to get both of them significant minutes because as high stakes as this is

it's still the lowest stakes because there's not elimination on the line at this point.

So I wouldn't be surprised to see both play the majority of the second half, at least coming on in the 60th minute, maybe even halftime.

With Moise Bombido, it's a broken leg that he suffered in October, and it's been a very slow recovery for his broken leg.

He has a metal rod in his leg and looked poor in his first minutes against Uzbekistan.

in a pre-World Cup friendly, and that does not give you much confidence where he said at that point that he was ready and healthy to go back in, and then it was very clear that he wasn't.

And he's saying that he's ready and healthy again.

Well, is he actually ready and healthy this time?

With Alphonso Davies, it's a hamstring, and that's going to be very crucial if you're trying to rely on his speed, especially if he's a left back where you don't want to be overwhelmed in wide areas against a Switzerland team.

Well, how complicated do you want to get with Davies?

Because I think you can see him at various points of this lineup.