Dan Le Batard

means they get to avoid the likes of Spain and England.

So it's favorable to those teams that essentially get the highest seed imaginable.

But Paraguay is a difficult team.

They counterattack.

They've got some good players.

If you're familiar with MLS, a former Inter-Miami player in Diego Gomez.

Amiran has been back and forth between the MLS and Europe.

They play this counterattacking style, and the US has changed its identity in recent years.

They want to take advantage of what was labeled a golden generation, more skilled attacking players, and they want to control and dictate the game.

But as we've seen in CONCACAF in particular,

You run into these gritty, hard-nosed teams that are very organized and want to make the most of their opportunities.

The U.S.

has really struggled in breaking those teams down.

Now, I think the U.S.

ultimately wins this game, but this is a tough opponent that does things that I think the United States struggles against.

However, if you're looking for hope in this entire tournament, the last two matches that the U.S.

have had in this warm-up for the World Cup

Senegal is a very good team.

The United States pretty much bossed that game and got a lot of what they wanted on the attack.

In the Germany game, I'm really optimistic after the Germany game because for long stretches of that game, the United States controlled that game.