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It was more a reflection of how poor Holland have been so far. But they started to look the business yesterday
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Not seen anything from the US this tournament that made me sit up and pay attention, they’ve underwhelmed me no end. Just like Canada I guess.
As for NL There’s at least five teams ahead of them imo. England, France, Argentina, Brazil and Spain all look far stronger, especially for knockout matches.
The US will never be able to break free from being mediocre unless they play top tier opposition in meaningful matches more frequently. Merging CONCACAF with CONMEBOL or tournament between the 4 strongest teams from each federation would seem logical to me.
jaw
Really struggle with the logics behind this sort of reasoning. They’re bang average with 2 decent players in their squad. They don’t come up against decent opposition often enough. The American media hype is just that and once it gets regurgitated in the British press it looks like people outside of the US start to believe it too. They’ve done well to qualify in the first place and so too to get out of the group stages but that’s about it.
Netherlands will lose to Argentina once again. England look like a decent bet to me.