Dan Patrick

How important is this game?

It's important because I think the general public doesn't fully understand with the 48-team tournament that the top four teams in the world, FIFA rankings, France, Spain, Argentina, England, if all four win their group, they avoid playing one another.

until the semifinal.

So while both France and Norway are going through, it's vital for France that they win this group.

And so there's still something to play for here.

All right.

There are a lot of people clutching their pearls after the loss last night and bigger picture with Team USA.

And I kept saying, that's a great problem to have that we didn't need to win a match.

I don't know how you feel, but that's how I saw the result.

Your thoughts?

uh... same i mean didn't listen they scored in the ninety eight minutes so it's a it's an absolute bitter pill to swallow i'd literally was on the verge of putting it out on social media great perseverance from the second string great reaction to twice going down i mean once going down to two ones scoring the time goal and then finding a way with second half subs

to mitigate that.

Now, in saying that, I went into the game saying this.

The result was inconsequential, but the game wasn't meaningless.

And so now Pochettino has answers to which players in the knockout stage are ready for the moment.

And I'm not totally sure he got answers he wanted, but he got answers.

It's the first time.

So own it.

take the fruits of those labor and say, hang on a minute, we're favored against Bosnia.

We've got to be the proactive team, and we've got to be on the front foot from the opening whistle.