Gavin Cooney

And then this intriguing group, France play Iraq after that.

And then if you do want to burn the midnight oil, Norway, Senegal...

is a very interesting game in that group Senegal need a result having lost to France on the opening game in the opening game Norway obviously easy winners against Iraq in their opening match so that looks that's a battle of two well balanced evenly matched sides and it's one that Senegal really need to get a result in Yeah do you fancy Norway to go a bit further in this competition?

It's just when you've got Haaland you've got a kind of a cheat code really you know I mean the hardest thing in football is to score goals and

And Haaland does it with such ease and with such regularity.

They are very reliant on him.

You know, they've got the Arsenal captain, Martin Odegaard, but he was pretty anonymous in his opening game.

And otherwise, they're a fairly jobbing team.

Like defensively, they're not that impressive and weren't that impressive in that opening game against Iraq.

But, you know, against bigger nations when they can just sit in to fend deep and then let loose Haaland on the counterattack.

they'd have a puncher's chance against anyone.

So their participation in this tournament will remain nothing more than an allegation for a lot of us.

But, you know, Algeria obviously lost to Argentina in the opening match.

They'll be favorites against Jordan.

But we've seen other favorites who need to win, like Ecuador against Curacao a couple of days ago.

They're under so much pressure to get a result and to score goals against these alleged minnows.

And they're not used to teams of that level are not used to being the protagonist and favourites in matches.

So that's a recipe for upsets and giant killing.

So off that basis, I actually wouldn't be surprised if we're all waking up tomorrow morning to a famous day in Jordanian football.

Yeah, it's a real war of attrition for us all.