Oliver Platt

So,

They're a real interesting story, particularly in 2030, they're going to co-host and they've got an opportunity after what they did in 2022 to have a really good kind of free tournament run, where I think they could probably do something pretty unprecedented in terms of African nations.

For sure, yeah.

I think that was a must win for both of them.

And, you know, you hope that maybe you can salvage a point in one of those other two matches, which would get you through.

If not, you're relying on the third place ranking, obviously, and three points being enough, which it may or may not be.

So that was basically win or that's it for Scotland and Haiti.

Scotland get it.

Scotland can be, you know, frustrating to play against, difficult to break down against kind of higher caliber teams.

So we'll see.

And Brazil did look a bit of a mess, to be honest with you.

So they've got some thinking to do.

kind of deceptively difficult group for the United States.

They made their first game look very easy against Paraguay, who were like a pretty solid team in qualifying in South America.

Didn't concede many goals for them.

Australia, like we saw this against Canada, I think it was last October in Montreux.

They're a team that doesn't care if they have the ball, didn't care against Turkey.

They'll sit back, absorb pressure.

And then they got some weapons on the counter attack.

So that will be, I think, a difficult kind of challenge for the U.S.