00:00Highest rated game of the weekend will occur Friday night at 9 p.m. Eastern as Team USA
00:05is back at the World Cup here and supposed to, in Group B, do much better than we've seen in
00:11the
00:11past. Now, I keep hearing that four years ago, eight years ago, 12 years ago. Like, it just
00:17doesn't stop with that. But supposedly, this is the year, so I'll play that card this year. Team
00:22USA is favored, minus 105 against Paraguay. Paraguay is plus 310. If it's a draw, it's plus
00:28240. The game is Friday night at 9. I mean, there's got to be pressure to win this one.
00:34I mean, if USA is going to have any good fortune here, I would imagine a tie would not even
00:38be
00:39acceptable here. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. This is the time for the U.S. to get
00:43off to a good start, to get three points, and pretty much put themselves in the knockout
00:47stage. If you look at how this bracket and this 48-team setup is for this World Cup, the
00:54first with 48 teams, three points is likely going to get you into the knockout stage.
01:00In the past format with 32 teams, the top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout
01:06stage. That was it. That's all you had to do. It was pretty simple. In this tournament
01:09with 48 teams, the top two teams in each group advance automatically, and the top eight of
01:15the 12 third-place finishers also advance. It's almost impossible for a team of the U.S.
01:21caliber to be eliminated in the group stage. The question will be, where in the bracket
01:26will they fall thanks to their group stage finish? So finishing first in the group is
01:31a huge advantage in the knockout round as opposed to finishing second or third. They
01:36would want to get three points out of this game. I think they will. They've beaten Paraguay
01:41back in November, so a recent result. And Fuller and Balagoon looks to be in very good goal-scoring
01:47form up front. He's not a great finisher, but he gets a ton of chances because his off-ball
01:51movement is excellent. I like him to score at around plus 220 or so. You can get two
01:55to one odds on that, which is very good. I like USA to score over one and a half goals.
02:00You can get that at plus odds, too, because the market expects this to be a low-scoring game.
02:04I don't think so. I think the U.S. will find the back of the net multiple times.
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