Expect USMNT to advance vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jay Croucher and Drew Dinsick look at the USMNT v. Bosnia and Herzegovina match in the Round of 32, explaining why they think Mauricio Pochettino's squad has the "firepower" to advance to the next round.
Video Transcript
Well, Jay, Team USA was wildly impressive during the group stage, and they begin their knockout campaign with a head-to-head against Bosnia Herzegovina here on July 1st in Santa Clara, California.
A really interesting market here as the impressive, nature of the, Team USA's qualification wasn't just noticed by us.
It was noticed by everyone.
They are minus 265 on the three-way over Bosnia, who is plus 800. draw currently priced at plus 390.
Team USA is minus 700 to advance.
do we feel like this is a fait accompli, or does Bosnia have a trick up their sleeve for us?
I don't think many tricks up the Bosnian sleeves, in this one.
I think the minus 700 USA to advance, is perfectly reasonable.
I think, yeah, I think some people might be surprised, at just how aggressively the US is priced, but I think the market has correctly responded to just how impressive, the US's group stage, performance was.
And throw out the Turkey game because it was a dead rubber, effectively.
I don't really care about that.
The US played a lineup of backups effectively.
But those first two games against Paraguay and Australia were extremely impressive, and really it was just the first half against Australia, then they took their foot off the gas 'cause they had the game in hand.
But that game against Paraguay, I think that was really instructive, 'cause Paraguay are a good team.
or at least they're a solid team.
They just knocked Germany out of the World Cup, and the US absolutely destroyed them with underlying metrics that backed up what they put out there in that 4-1 victory.
So I think the US are legitimately good.
I don't think that they're a realistic threat to actually go and win the tournament, but I think they're a huge threat to get to the quarterfinals, and give anyone a really good game, even from that point on.
I think this team is just extremely well-drilled.
They're very aggressive in the way that they press, and I think that the inefficiency in the World Cup a little bit, is just coaching.
and Murts- Maurizio Pochettino, I think, is an outstanding coach.
We saw the impact that Carlo Ancelotti, had in the game against Japan.
We've seen how well, Thomas Tuchel has drilled, the English players.
So I just think that coaching, having a cohesive pressing plan is just so key.
the US play really aggressively, which I think is very good against these lesser talented teams.
I think a team like Spain might end up passing through them, but I think the US have enough firepower, enough defensive aggression that they're just gonna overwhelm a team like Bosnia.
