Mark Langdon
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And just on Scotland, I was looking at kind of some modelling being done on what you need to do to kind of be one of the best third place teams.
And I do think that Scotland will finish third in this group.
If you can get a goal difference of zero with three points, you're almost certainly there.
Once it gets to about minus two, that's where they think the cutoff point might be.
I would be embarrassed anyway.
You can't go through with a minus two goal difference.
Is there?
Up front.
Yes.
Isidore.
I think it could go either way for them.
If you start well and you suddenly feel like a country's behind you, it doesn't really matter what you've done before.
We've seen that with a lot of host nations.
If you go back to Russia, they were going to be the worst countries.
sort of team ever and actually when it came to it you know performed above expectations Qatar not so much but watching the recent friendly they had against Senegal Pulisic was just on fire in that game and sort of you can this feels like it could be his kind of poster boy moment he's been he's
sort of so heavily relied upon you know to be this figurehead of of a country's football team and you now get the opportunity to deliver in a home World Cup and it's a very open group but if you win the group the path towards say the last 16 and you know and then you're really into the tournament sort of opens up so I think winning this group will be absolutely key and I
Pretty close, I would say, between the USA and Turkey for that honor.
I'm going to go for Portugal.
Nice section of the draw for them.
Hopefully Roberto Martinez doesn't obsess over Cristiano Ronaldo for every minute of this tournament.