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They will give everything they have.
And now with Turkey, it's probably one of the most, let's leave Italy aside, but that's the team you do not want to meet now already in the group phase.
From the teams that will stay, will head still to fight for that spot.
So this is what happened today.
It's big news.
It's big news for every U.S.
soccer fan because this is a very dangerous group now.
You can win this group,
but you can also become fourth in that group.
Australia is unpredictable because Australians play, most of them are in Europe, as most of the players anyway, but they are used to play all sorts of different opponents.
They are able to play the East Asian ones like Japan or South Korea.
They are able to play the Middle East countries.
When you play in an Asian cup, you play against Jordan, you play against Bahrain, you play against Saudi Arabia.
Their game management is completely different to what we are used
used to and the Australians they are capable to adapt you know they know you know how to play different type of systems against they know how to kind of play with your mind you know they have they are able to play dirty they are able to play straightforward physical and be honest in
a certain way but if you play with them dirty they will answer it in a dirty way so we had an experience in the Asian Cup we went all the way into extra times and then finally we broke them down and won this game but it is going to be a very very difficult opponent.
Well, I would agree with Casey.
I think, you know, what Mexico smartly did now in this little window, you know, they played obviously their first game at the Azteca Stadium after the long time kind of remodeling of the stadium.
It's now ready for the opening game.
But they played also, you know, tough opponents right there in Mexico where they have a different crowd of Mexican fans than if they play a couple of days later than in Chicago with a more, you know,