00:00The United States will take on Paraguay in their World Cup tournament opener on Friday.
00:04It's a difficult start for the US and Paraguay beat both Brazil and Argentina in qualifying.
00:10They will be out to spoil the party on Friday and Paraguay have a secret weapon that could
00:14cause Mauricio Pochettino's team real problems.
00:17We spoke to Paraguayan soccer expert Ralph Hanna and he pinpointed the team's biggest
00:22strength.
00:24So one is, and it's very much in fashion now, is set pieces.
00:28I think Paraguay have opened the scoring at the World Cup with a header in the last four
00:32World Cups and so the most recent one was Antelene Alcaraz and he scores a header against Italy,
00:37the World Champions.
00:38They drew that game to start the 2010 World Cup.
00:41So what we've got at the moment is Gustavo Gomez, the centre-back for Palmeiras and he's the captain.
00:47And then also Omar Alderete who's just come off a great season at Sunderland.
00:51They're very dangerous on set pieces.
00:53You have Juan Cáceres.
00:55He's very good in terms of delivery, so set pieces is definitely one angle.
01:01This could be bad news for the US MNT.
01:04In their last warm-up game against Germany, they conceded a header from a set piece within
01:09the first five minutes of the game.
01:11A repeat of that on Friday would be a nightmare start to a home World Cup.
01:14Pochettino will be doing all that he can to make sure that the US are switched on from
01:18the very first kick.
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