Matt Besler

We have guys playing over in England.

England's a very physical league.

The Paraguay team, they play a little different style.

They like to slow it down, and they're not used to playing at a certain tempo.

And so that's why I say if we keep the tempo high, keep the pressure high, Paraguay's not used to playing like that.

And so...

They may be able to do it for a little bit, but I don't think they can do it over the course of 90 minutes.

No, you're not wrong.

I mean, yeah, I'm talking like it's like, okay, yeah, we come out on the front foot and everything's going to be fine.

No, this is a tricky game for sure, especially being the first game.

Paraguay's had some really good results in their World Cup qualifying game.

South American qualifying is very difficult.

And they actually beat Brazil and Argentina, two of the top teams in the world, in their qualifying to help them qualify for this World Cup.

The reason or the way they did that was they sat back and they absorbed pressure.

So in both of those Brazil and Argentina games, I think Paraguay had close to like 30% possession.

They got outshot, you know, 20 to 2.

They had a lot of fouls, so that's what I expect to see.

You talked about this being a chippy matchup the last time they played.

That's going to be Paraguay's game plan.

And just like I said, if I'm the U.S.