Jason deVos

They'll cross the ball incessantly.

It just won't stop.

And so, you know, question marks about injuries revolve around Edin Dzeko, their star striker, who is at the age of 40 now, but is still an outstanding striker who can get on the end of things and cause problems for Canada's two central defenders.

So

Expect to see a lot of stinking, a lot of set plays, a lot of one-on-one individual battles from Canada's fullbacks against the wingers of Bosnia.

But also expect them to play a medium to low block.

They're not going to high press.

Canada they're just going to sit off and they're going to make it really difficult for the Canadians to break them down because if you scouted Canada and you watch what where they struggle what they what they have a difficult time doing is breaking down a low block so they don't really have that creativity in the final third and some of the top countries in this tournament will have and that's probably what they're going to see from Bosnia so they need to be prepared for that so

When we look at the pre-tournament games, the warm-up games that they played, it was almost like a carbon copy of what they might expect against Bosnia.

The Ireland game, difficult to break down.

Ireland were very compact in defense, and Canada didn't create a lot of chances.

So for me, what I'm hoping to see today is wide players for Canada.

We're going to take the pullback on, get to the byline with Crossman.

I want to see the center forward, two strikers, attacking the bobs.

and at least one of the midfielders and the opposite side midfielder tacking the ball.

So getting at least four players into the penalty area to get on the end of those crosses, that's going to be critical for Canada if they're going to score goals today.

it's incredible guys um you know thanks for for covering this uh this event it's going to be immense for the game of soccer in this country i was here at the stadium toronto stadium at about 5 30 this morning i was so keen to get going and the pitch is in immaculate condition the stadium looks fantastic from the inside looking out it's going to be rocking it's going to have a wave of canadians there's tons of people already here at the stadium

ready to support Canada and see them do something special they've never done before, which is win a game at a World Cup.

So it's a lot to be excited about right now.

Yeah, there is.