Mark Ogden

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So, day two in Los Angeles.

We're not in our Santa Monica base today.

We're actually in Inglewood in a sports bar in the Hollywood Park Casino, which is right next to the SoFi Stadium, which is called the Los Angeles Stadium for the duration of the tournament, where the USA have just beaten Paraguay, thumped them 4-1 in their opening game.

Lloyd and I have just come straight from there.

First of all, I feel like I just have to hold my hands up because I was expecting the USA to not be very good, and they were excellent.

They were very, very good, weren't they?

They really were.

I mean, Paraguay weren't.

No.

But still.

Paraguay had a really good, I think, two minutes at the start.

Lovely two minutes.

And then it didn't really go to plan for them.

And the USA were, I'm going to say, silky.

They were, and they were being supported admirably because the place was packed to the rafters.

It was.

Mark Ogden is alongside us, senior writer at ESPN.

It was a good game, wasn't it, Mark?

It was a really good game.