Shaka Hislop

I do not.

You don't think so.

I don't.

I think there's an expectation from a U.S.

soccer fan base that this team is good enough to get to semifinal.

Fans could feel that.

I don't subscribe to that.

But what that does, and the point I'm making is that puts a lot of pressure on this team to perform.

to dominate a group in which, in those shows we did immediately after the draw, I made the point that all four teams in that group will think they can get out of it.

So even that is not guaranteed.

So there's a lot of pressure

individually on these players to perform at a level that the U.S.

I don't think has performed before.

And I'm not sure that this team is as good as some of the very good U.S.

teams we've seen in the past.

I'm not sure.

And I say that because...

I'm trying to take this Flamengo project into context.

Already linked with Paqueta's move from West Ham to Flamengo, again as part of that project.

Paqueta probably with the workup on his mind and sees that as a viable move to keep him in Carlo Ancelotti's plans.