00:00Everyone talks about the pressure or how much pressure it is for this team to need to get some sort
00:06of points in this opening match against Pedagui.
00:10So what will this opening match tell you or us about the U.S. men's national team?
00:16And would you call this a must win for our boys?
00:19It's not really must win.
00:21It's hard to if you play one game and you have two left and you call this must win and
00:25you lose.
00:27It's a tough sell, I guess, after that.
00:29But history shows your percentage of advancing is much higher when you win.
00:34When you draw, it's lower.
00:37When you lose, it's lower.
00:39So first game is important to get points.
00:41I think it's a failure if the U.S. comes up with no points in game one.
00:47That puts more pressure on them for games two and three.
00:49They're favorites over Paraguay.
00:52They've beaten them before, but that was in a friendly.
00:55This is a World Cup.
00:56This is going to be a different game.
00:57It's going to be a physical game.
00:58That's what we expect tomorrow against Paraguay.
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