Dan Le Batard
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look out.
That is upset city.
Put the town on alert.
Absolutely.
Put the town on alert.
Yeah, Tunisia's not the easiest side to go up against, and this might be a group that on the surface you think gets three into the next round, but that might be tough depending on Tunisia.
Does this group get three teams, and if so, who's the odd team out?
see a third team advance it's because there are a number of draws that happen in the group and i can see tunisia being that pesky team that draws with everyone sweden ends up with two points or one point or whatever and they don't get through because they don't have enough points yeah the expanded world cup allows for some bad matches in the group stage every match i think in group f is interesting and going to be tight group g not necessarily the case we're familiar although when it comes to storylines this is probably dan lebitard's favorite group because you have iran and you have new zealand and
And he's all caught up on Tim Payne and that story, so we don't have to get so into that.
But you got Egypt and Belgium.
Now, most people on name recognition would just assume Belgium, but it's not the golden generation.
And maybe people are carrying that result that they had against the U.S., thinking that that might be some sort of predictive analysis.
Not the same Belgium.
This group is interesting in that I'm not exactly sure who the worst team is.
And on Egypt's best day, I'm not so sure Belgium can beat them.
Now, this could be one of those sneaky groups that does get three teams in, depending on how some of these matches break down.
And if the circumstances were more normal, I'd probably have Iran pegged as one of those teams.
The United States knows from running into Iran in the World Cup, famously losing in 1998, needing a result in the last group day of the last World Cup against Iran.
And you and I were very nervous in that match against that opponent.
This, though, seems like a very difficult situation for this football program and to play in this country, too.