Dan Thomas

No one is talking about Burnley and not turning up and formations and players they should have used and tactics.

Portugal have got better players than the US.

Arsenal have better players than Burnley.

Belgium have better players than the US.

Why is there so much excitement and hype

around what Pochettino should be doing when in reality none of these US players get into the Portuguese squad.

That's just where it is and that's fine, that's fine to accept, yet there seems to be so much talk around everything else, so much noise, which just seems to exceed all expectations.

Is that a point, Ali?

Should he have used this platform to put out that starting 11?

Jermaine, I'm intrigued as a player to get your view on this, and indeed a coach.

The four teams that the US will face leading up to the World Cup, obviously lost against Belgium, lost yesterday against Portugal, they'll face Senegal and Germany.

They're really hard games.

As a player, would you have preferred to play someone more on your level, or would you get more out of playing against opposition like this?

Because, I don't know, if I'm playing tennis against someone who just scores aces past me, what am I learning?

Christian Pulisic hasn't scored since December.

He's struggling to get into this Milan team.

He's supposed to be the guy, isn't he?

He's supposed to be the focus that's going to carry the US in this summer tournament.

Yet he can't even get a game domestically at the moment.

Jermaine, you think of that group, Ali used the word grind there, and no one gave you much of a chance really when you looked at the opponents.