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At the hydration break, Iâll get to the discussion of Santa Claraâs soccer history.
In the player intros, why are so many US players rubbing their hands like evil geniuses?
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A fan is wearing a bald eagle costume with a piece of plastic in front of their face. Itâs as if someone thinks Angine de Poitrine havenât gone far enough.
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Officially, the national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina has no words. Their fans are singing something, anyway. The team are tight-lipped and stoic.
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Updated at 01.57 CEST
âKind of ironic that the USA are playing on Canada Day, of all days! I just want to put in a shoutout for Californiaâs Great America, an amusement park in Santa Clara which shares a car park with Leviâs Stadium (where this game is being played). Unfortunately, the land underneath the park was sold to the developer Prologis, so itâs expected to close at the end of the 2027 season. A great shame â it has a world-class roller coaster in the form of Gold Striker. I hope it gets as much footfall as it deserves while the World Cup is on.â â Matthew Leung
And Canada will be playing on the Fourth of July. England will play one day later, when weâll still be coughing out our lungs from firework smoke.
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Bend It Like Beckham critiques
âHas not aged well. It came out when I was in High School and I LOVED it. But as an adult, two teenaged girls fighting over their adult male coach who not only does not shut it down, but starts a relationship with one of them, sickens me.â â Kathryn Cehrs
Along those lines â I lost patience with the film F1 when the fiercely independent pioneering woman who led the teamâs engineering efforts ⊠threw away her entire character development because Brad Pitt did something unexpected at the card table.
âThe funniest thing about Bend It Like Beckham is that everyoneâs flying over to Hamburg all of a sudden - and then back. It only makes sense if you know that German film financing requires you to shoot at least a small part of the movie in a German city. Iâm rooting for Bosnia and Herzegovina tonight: beautiful country with great people and bad politicians. And - as an FC St. Pauli supporter â Iâm wishing Nikola Vasilj all the best for the inevitable penalties. And for his private and professional future.â â Konrad Pahlke
That may indeed be one position at which BIH have an edge.
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Alexander Abnos
Hello from San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, where as you might expect an extremely pro-USA crowd is filing in. There are certainly more than enough Bosnia and Herzegovina fans here to make some noise should they give them a reason. Itâs a beautiful day, sunny and cool in that special Bay Area way (unless youâre in the famously hot upper decks here).
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Pre-pregame email âŠ
âHi Beau! I am very excited because I think itâs a very cool match-up - I cannot imagine two countries that are more different, except in soccer where I think theyâre very evenly matched. Though I base this opinion mostly on Bosniaâs elimination of Italy in the qualifiers. Is Bosnia that good or was Italy just very bad? Well weâll find out very soon, wonât we!â â Vlado
âBalogun is the best reason to keep the 14th amendment (birthright citizenship) as it is. If the Mad King had his way, Balogun would be playing for England.â â Mary Waltz
Maybe then they could beat Mexico.
âWhen the stadium announcer said, âHere is Team USA!â with all the music and everybody cheered, only the starting 10 came out. (The 3 goalkeepers were already warming up). The whole Bosnia team came out together. After several minutes the USA subs came out and warmed up together, but they were not announced and nobody cheered. The USMNT has historically had a problem with team cohesion, and the decision to bring out only the starters when announcing the team seems like an easy way to create a division within the team that doesnât need to be there.â â Kathryn Cehrs
âWhen isnât a World Cup knock-out match considered a âmust-winâ game? They all are, or else your tournament is over. But NOW, as the co-hosts with the most (matches), USA surely has to match the progress of on-form Mexico as well as Canada, or else the team and USSF will have egg all over their collective faces. On top of that, should USA fail to get past the Bosnians tonight, Jesse Marsch will become a total monster! (Well, an even bigger monster in the eyes of the USSF and its friends than he already is.) They have the talent to win, but can the USA handle the psychological pressure? I hope so.â â Jason Elliott
Should the USA reach the quarterfinals, Iâd argue the âmustâ factor drops steadily. No one is going to complain if this team go out gracefully against a Spain or a France. This one? Thereâll be questions.
âIf it were either Bosnia or Herzegovina I would pick an easy US win. Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the other hand, might not be so straightforward. Did you hear the one about the US fans who wanted to bang drums, blare death metal and honk horns outside the Bosniansâ hotel, but couldnât find it on the map?â â Peter Oh
Funny how âBosnia and Herzegovinaâ gets truncated to âBosnia,â âTrinidad and Tobagoâ is âTrinidad,â but âWilliam and Maryâ is never just âWilliam.â
Iâm thinking of a different way to shorten the country name, but âB and Hâ seems flippant. Maybe Iâll just go with their country code âBIH.â The âIâ actually stands for âandâ in the countryâs local languages.
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The pregame show on Fox Sports 1, which is distinct from the pregame show on Fox, is hyping this as a canât-lose game for the USA.
Dax McCarty, who has a serious playing resume, is reminding his chest-puffing co-host that Paraguay beat Germany.
Question: Do the USA play better when theyâre not expected to win? England 1950, Colombia 1994, Portugal 2002, Mexico 2002, Italy 2006, Spain 2009, England 2010, Belgium 2014 (even in defeat), England 2022. When they are expected to win? Iran 1998. Poland 2002. Trinidad and Tobago 2017. Panama, Panama and Panama.
Or do they just have Englandâs number? Good news if they face off in the final.
(What? The USA would have to go through Spain and France, and England would have to go through Mexico and Argentina? Never mind.)
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This eveningâs officials âŠ
Referee: Raphael Claus (Brazil). ARs also from Brazil; fourth and reserve officials from Uruguay.
VAR: Juan Soto (Venezuela), with Nicolas Gallo (Colombia) and Jerome Brisard (France).
(Saying âeveningâ because itâs a 5 pm kickoff in Santa Clara, Calif., known in soccer circles mostly as the destination of the two protagonists in Bend It Like Beckham, the breakthrough film on womenâs soccer that ⊠hasnât aged well?)
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Lineups
No surprise whatsoever for the co-hosts âŠ
USA: Freese; Ream, Richards, Freeman; Robinson, Dest; Tillman, McKennie, Adams, Pulisic; Balogun
Fotmob calls it a 3-4-2-1, with Pulisic and McKennie as twin attacking mids.
Wait âŠ
3-4-2-1? âŠ
ITâS A THREE-SIX-ONE!! (Cue nightmare flashbacks of 1998.)
But honestly, the difference between a 3-4-3 and a 5-4-1 is how well a team is controlling the ball. It might be a mistake, though, to let Robinson spend too much time forward and leave Ream vulnerable. The US captain didnât look comfortable when he had to leave his comfort zone alongside Richards in central defense and go out to the wings.)
FWIW, Fotmob says Bosnia also will be in a 3-4-2-1. No one believes theyâll play with that many players forward. But weâll list them that way for now.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Vasilj; Muharemovic, RadeljiÄ, KatiÄ; KolaĆĄinac, BaĆĄiÄ, Gigovic, DediÄ; AlajbegoviÄ, DemiroviÄ; DĆŸeko
DediÄ started the first two games but was out injured for the win over Qatar. Muharemovic returns from a red-card suspension.
But the surprise is Gigovic, the former Swedish international now with Young Boys in Switzerland. He played 61 minutes in the tie with Canada and hadnât appeared since then. Ć unjiÄ, a former Croatian international, makes way.
Thereâs no place for Wisconsin-born Esmir BajraktareviÄ. Not yet, anyway.
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And itâs done.
Thatâs a result that just goes to show how brutal the fates can be. Thereâs no such thing as karma in soccer. The most impressive team over 90 minutes doesnât always win. One save or one deflection can make one manager an idiot or a genius.
So the pundits who are already drawing up their previews of the USAâs Round of 16 game might want to cool their jets.
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We pause now for the denouement of Belgium-Senegal.
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Familiar face
For many years, Wisconsin-born Esmir BajraktareviÄ was part of the US soccer pipeline. He played for youth national teams. He worked his way up through the youth ranks at the New England Revolution and overlapped just slightly with US goalkeeper Matt Turner.
But BajraktareviÄ was the child of Bosnian refugees. One of his heroes was Edin DĆŸeko, the Sarajevo-born player who distinguished himself at Manchester City, Wolfsburg and Roma.
At age 40, DĆŸeko is still on the team. At age 21, so is BajraktareviÄ, who converted the winning shot in the penalty shootout that sent his country to the World Cup ahead of Italy.
Jeff Rueter writes:
double quotation markHe didnât miss, slotting his attempt just underneath Donnarummaâs gloves as the keeper dove to his left. BajraktareviÄ peeled off to the corner flag and held his Bosnia aloft for the home supporters to admire: Zmajevi were back in the World Cup at Italyâs expense.
That sort of fearlessness in the big moment, coupled with experience scuppering a 2026 World Cup co-hostâs home-field advantage, makes BajraktareviÄ and his team a compelling first knockout adversary. for the US.
And he has had an impact in this Cup. Jeff notes:
double quotation markBajraktareviÄ started against Canada and Qatar and came off the bench against the Swiss, logging 214 minutes (including stoppage time) and operating as a recipient for progressive passes. Only Ivan BaĆĄiÄ has played more passes into the box than BajraktareviÄâs five for Bosnia and Herzegovina, per Futi, while his 70 attacking-third touches trail his opposite winger, Kerim AlajbegoviÄ.
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Preamble
Welcome to one of the biggest games in US menâs history.
Such sentiments are often overstated. But this game will have one of two possible outcomes ...
1. A third win in the same World Cup for the first time in US menâs history. Even the semifinalists of 1930 only won twice. The win would be validation that the teamâs start to the tournament was no outlier â though seeing Paraguay knock out Germany just three games after the US ran riot over the South American side provides ample demonstration that this US team should officially be rated ânot bad.â
2. A national deflating.
Should the USA win and then lose to Senegal ... wait, what just happened? Oh. Should the USA win and then lose to Senegal or Belgium, that would be yet another in a succession of losses in the round of 16, but again -- they would have won three games and would probably stake a claim as one of the better teams to miss out on the quarterfinals. A loss to Bosnia and Herzegovina would be less palatable among US sport fandom.
Which may be unfair, because this is absolutely the biggest game in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Until this year, the only points the young nation had managed in the World Cup final tournament were in a dead-ish rubber against Iran in 2014. In theory, Iran couldâve wiped out the World Cup debutants and advanced past Nigeria on goal difference, but the Iranian team put up little resistance and collapsed to a 3-1 defeat.
Last year, Bosnia and Herzegovina put up a credible performance in group-stage qualifying, finishing second behind Austria. Then they won two nail-biting affairs in the European playoffs, eliminating Wales on penalties after a late goal from grizzled veteran Edin DĆŸeko, then shocking Italy on penalties after another second-half equalizer.
Then in their return to the Big Dance after 12 years away, Bosnia and Herzegovina stunned co-host Canada with a first-half goal and held on for an impressive draw. Switzerland picked them apart, but they advanced with a solid 3-1 smackdown over Qatar.
And Bosnia and Herzegovina absolutely will not be intimidated. Nor should they. This is a country that endured the horrors of the years of war that followed the collapse of Yugoslavia. Some of the players are the children of refugees from that conflict.
They also happen to have a lot of players whoâve been through pressure cookers in European football, along with some tantalizing prospects.
The USA will be playing to shed the tag of underachievers that has dogged the so-called âgolden generationâ ever since the failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Bosnia and Herzegovina will be playing for a long-awaited breakthrough on the international scene.
On paper, perhaps this is a game that favors the USA. Ask England if being favored on paper meant the game was easy. Or ask Germany if such a designation kept them from being swept out of this Cup.
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Beau will be here shortly. In the meantime, hereâs an excerpt from Graham Ruthvenâs daily World Cup watch guide about this matchup:
What to watch for
Pochettinoâs decision to rest most of his first-choice players for the USAâs dead-rubber group finale against Turkey will have paid dividends if the co-hosts are able to keep up the intensity of their play against a Bosnia and Herzegovina team who will sit deep and ask to be broken down.
Bosnia and Herzegovina embrace the slog. They made it to this World Cup by winning back-to-back penalty shootouts against Wales and Italy and will attempt to make the USAâs life a misery in Santa Clara by closing space between the lines, staying compact at the back and playing for set pieces.
Player to watch: Christian Pulisic, USA â The Milan winger made his return from injury against Turkey and could be in line to start this match. Pulisicâs direct running and one-v-one ability could be critical to breaking down the Bosnia and Herzegovina backline.
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At the hydration break, Iâll get to the discussion of Santa Claraâs soccer history.
In the player intros, why are so many US players rubbing their hands like evil geniuses?
Share
A fan is wearing a bald eagle costume with a piece of plastic in front of their face. Itâs as if someone thinks Angine de Poitrine havenât gone far enough.
Share
Officially, the national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina has no words. Their fans are singing something, anyway. The team are tight-lipped and stoic.
Share
Updated at 01.57 CEST
âKind of ironic that the USA are playing on Canada Day, of all days! I just want to put in a shoutout for Californiaâs Great America, an amusement park in Santa Clara which shares a car park with Leviâs Stadium (where this game is being played). Unfortunately, the land underneath the park was sold to the developer Prologis, so itâs expected to close at the end of the 2027 season. A great shame â it has a world-class roller coaster in the form of Gold Striker. I hope it gets as much footfall as it deserves while the World Cup is on.â â Matthew Leung
And Canada will be playing on the Fourth of July. England will play one day later, when weâll still be coughing out our lungs from firework smoke.
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Bend It Like Beckham critiques
âHas not aged well. It came out when I was in High School and I LOVED it. But as an adult, two teenaged girls fighting over their adult male coach who not only does not shut it down, but starts a relationship with one of them, sickens me.â â Kathryn Cehrs
Along those lines â I lost patience with the film F1 when the fiercely independent pioneering woman who led the teamâs engineering efforts ⊠threw away her entire character development because Brad Pitt did something unexpected at the card table.
âThe funniest thing about Bend It Like Beckham is that everyoneâs flying over to Hamburg all of a sudden - and then back. It only makes sense if you know that German film financing requires you to shoot at least a small part of the movie in a German city. Iâm rooting for Bosnia and Herzegovina tonight: beautiful country with great people and bad politicians. And - as an FC St. Pauli supporter â Iâm wishing Nikola Vasilj all the best for the inevitable penalties. And for his private and professional future.â â Konrad Pahlke
That may indeed be one position at which BIH have an edge.
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Alexander Abnos
Hello from San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, where as you might expect an extremely pro-USA crowd is filing in. There are certainly more than enough Bosnia and Herzegovina fans here to make some noise should they give them a reason. Itâs a beautiful day, sunny and cool in that special Bay Area way (unless youâre in the famously hot upper decks here).
Share
Pre-pregame email âŠ
âHi Beau! I am very excited because I think itâs a very cool match-up - I cannot imagine two countries that are more different, except in soccer where I think theyâre very evenly matched. Though I base this opinion mostly on Bosniaâs elimination of Italy in the qualifiers. Is Bosnia that good or was Italy just very bad? Well weâll find out very soon, wonât we!â â Vlado
âBalogun is the best reason to keep the 14th amendment (birthright citizenship) as it is. If the Mad King had his way, Balogun would be playing for England.â â Mary Waltz
Maybe then they could beat Mexico.
âWhen the stadium announcer said, âHere is Team USA!â with all the music and everybody cheered, only the starting 10 came out. (The 3 goalkeepers were already warming up). The whole Bosnia team came out together. After several minutes the USA subs came out and warmed up together, but they were not announced and nobody cheered. The USMNT has historically had a problem with team cohesion, and the decision to bring out only the starters when announcing the team seems like an easy way to create a division within the team that doesnât need to be there.â â Kathryn Cehrs
âWhen isnât a World Cup knock-out match considered a âmust-winâ game? They all are, or else your tournament is over. But NOW, as the co-hosts with the most (matches), USA surely has to match the progress of on-form Mexico as well as Canada, or else the team and USSF will have egg all over their collective faces. On top of that, should USA fail to get past the Bosnians tonight, Jesse Marsch will become a total monster! (Well, an even bigger monster in the eyes of the USSF and its friends than he already is.) They have the talent to win, but can the USA handle the psychological pressure? I hope so.â â Jason Elliott
Should the USA reach the quarterfinals, Iâd argue the âmustâ factor drops steadily. No one is going to complain if this team go out gracefully against a Spain or a France. This one? Thereâll be questions.
âIf it were either Bosnia or Herzegovina I would pick an easy US win. Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the other hand, might not be so straightforward. Did you hear the one about the US fans who wanted to bang drums, blare death metal and honk horns outside the Bosniansâ hotel, but couldnât find it on the map?â â Peter Oh
Funny how âBosnia and Herzegovinaâ gets truncated to âBosnia,â âTrinidad and Tobagoâ is âTrinidad,â but âWilliam and Maryâ is never just âWilliam.â
Iâm thinking of a different way to shorten the country name, but âB and Hâ seems flippant. Maybe Iâll just go with their country code âBIH.â The âIâ actually stands for âandâ in the countryâs local languages.
Share
The pregame show on Fox Sports 1, which is distinct from the pregame show on Fox, is hyping this as a canât-lose game for the USA.
Dax McCarty, who has a serious playing resume, is reminding his chest-puffing co-host that Paraguay beat Germany.
Question: Do the USA play better when theyâre not expected to win? England 1950, Colombia 1994, Portugal 2002, Mexico 2002, Italy 2006, Spain 2009, England 2010, Belgium 2014 (even in defeat), England 2022. When they are expected to win? Iran 1998. Poland 2002. Trinidad and Tobago 2017. Panama, Panama and Panama.
Or do they just have Englandâs number? Good news if they face off in the final.
(What? The USA would have to go through Spain and France, and England would have to go through Mexico and Argentina? Never mind.)
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This eveningâs officials âŠ
Referee: Raphael Claus (Brazil). ARs also from Brazil; fourth and reserve officials from Uruguay.
VAR: Juan Soto (Venezuela), with Nicolas Gallo (Colombia) and Jerome Brisard (France).
(Saying âeveningâ because itâs a 5 pm kickoff in Santa Clara, Calif., known in soccer circles mostly as the destination of the two protagonists in Bend It Like Beckham, the breakthrough film on womenâs soccer that ⊠hasnât aged well?)
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Lineups
No surprise whatsoever for the co-hosts âŠ
USA: Freese; Ream, Richards, Freeman; Robinson, Dest; Tillman, McKennie, Adams, Pulisic; Balogun
Fotmob calls it a 3-4-2-1, with Pulisic and McKennie as twin attacking mids.
Wait âŠ
3-4-2-1? âŠ
ITâS A THREE-SIX-ONE!! (Cue nightmare flashbacks of 1998.)
But honestly, the difference between a 3-4-3 and a 5-4-1 is how well a team is controlling the ball. It might be a mistake, though, to let Robinson spend too much time forward and leave Ream vulnerable. The US captain didnât look comfortable when he had to leave his comfort zone alongside Richards in central defense and go out to the wings.)
FWIW, Fotmob says Bosnia also will be in a 3-4-2-1. No one believes theyâll play with that many players forward. But weâll list them that way for now.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Vasilj; Muharemovic, RadeljiÄ, KatiÄ; KolaĆĄinac, BaĆĄiÄ, Gigovic, DediÄ; AlajbegoviÄ, DemiroviÄ; DĆŸeko
DediÄ started the first two games but was out injured for the win over Qatar. Muharemovic returns from a red-card suspension.
But the surprise is Gigovic, the former Swedish international now with Young Boys in Switzerland. He played 61 minutes in the tie with Canada and hadnât appeared since then. Ć unjiÄ, a former Croatian international, makes way.
Thereâs no place for Wisconsin-born Esmir BajraktareviÄ. Not yet, anyway.
Share
And itâs done.
Thatâs a result that just goes to show how brutal the fates can be. Thereâs no such thing as karma in soccer. The most impressive team over 90 minutes doesnât always win. One save or one deflection can make one manager an idiot or a genius.
So the pundits who are already drawing up their previews of the USAâs Round of 16 game might want to cool their jets.
Share
We pause now for the denouement of Belgium-Senegal.
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Familiar face
For many years, Wisconsin-born Esmir BajraktareviÄ was part of the US soccer pipeline. He played for youth national teams. He worked his way up through the youth ranks at the New England Revolution and overlapped just slightly with US goalkeeper Matt Turner.
But BajraktareviÄ was the child of Bosnian refugees. One of his heroes was Edin DĆŸeko, the Sarajevo-born player who distinguished himself at Manchester City, Wolfsburg and Roma.
At age 40, DĆŸeko is still on the team. At age 21, so is BajraktareviÄ, who converted the winning shot in the penalty shootout that sent his country to the World Cup ahead of Italy.
Jeff Rueter writes:
double quotation markHe didnât miss, slotting his attempt just underneath Donnarummaâs gloves as the keeper dove to his left. BajraktareviÄ peeled off to the corner flag and held his Bosnia aloft for the home supporters to admire: Zmajevi were back in the World Cup at Italyâs expense.
That sort of fearlessness in the big moment, coupled with experience scuppering a 2026 World Cup co-hostâs home-field advantage, makes BajraktareviÄ and his team a compelling first knockout adversary. for the US.
And he has had an impact in this Cup. Jeff notes:
double quotation markBajraktareviÄ started against Canada and Qatar and came off the bench against the Swiss, logging 214 minutes (including stoppage time) and operating as a recipient for progressive passes. Only Ivan BaĆĄiÄ has played more passes into the box than BajraktareviÄâs five for Bosnia and Herzegovina, per Futi, while his 70 attacking-third touches trail his opposite winger, Kerim AlajbegoviÄ.
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Preamble
Welcome to one of the biggest games in US menâs history.
Such sentiments are often overstated. But this game will have one of two possible outcomes ...
1. A third win in the same World Cup for the first time in US menâs history. Even the semifinalists of 1930 only won twice. The win would be validation that the teamâs start to the tournament was no outlier â though seeing Paraguay knock out Germany just three games after the US ran riot over the South American side provides ample demonstration that this US team should officially be rated ânot bad.â
2. A national deflating.
Should the USA win and then lose to Senegal ... wait, what just happened? Oh. Should the USA win and then lose to Senegal or Belgium, that would be yet another in a succession of losses in the round of 16, but again -- they would have won three games and would probably stake a claim as one of the better teams to miss out on the quarterfinals. A loss to Bosnia and Herzegovina would be less palatable among US sport fandom.
Which may be unfair, because this is absolutely the biggest game in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Until this year, the only points the young nation had managed in the World Cup final tournament were in a dead-ish rubber against Iran in 2014. In theory, Iran couldâve wiped out the World Cup debutants and advanced past Nigeria on goal difference, but the Iranian team put up little resistance and collapsed to a 3-1 defeat.
Last year, Bosnia and Herzegovina put up a credible performance in group-stage qualifying, finishing second behind Austria. Then they won two nail-biting affairs in the European playoffs, eliminating Wales on penalties after a late goal from grizzled veteran Edin DĆŸeko, then shocking Italy on penalties after another second-half equalizer.
Then in their return to the Big Dance after 12 years away, Bosnia and Herzegovina stunned co-host Canada with a first-half goal and held on for an impressive draw. Switzerland picked them apart, but they advanced with a solid 3-1 smackdown over Qatar.
And Bosnia and Herzegovina absolutely will not be intimidated. Nor should they. This is a country that endured the horrors of the years of war that followed the collapse of Yugoslavia. Some of the players are the children of refugees from that conflict.
They also happen to have a lot of players whoâve been through pressure cookers in European football, along with some tantalizing prospects.
The USA will be playing to shed the tag of underachievers that has dogged the so-called âgolden generationâ ever since the failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Bosnia and Herzegovina will be playing for a long-awaited breakthrough on the international scene.
On paper, perhaps this is a game that favors the USA. Ask England if being favored on paper meant the game was easy. Or ask Germany if such a designation kept them from being swept out of this Cup.
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Beau will be here shortly. In the meantime, hereâs an excerpt from Graham Ruthvenâs daily World Cup watch guide about this matchup:
What to watch for
Pochettinoâs decision to rest most of his first-choice players for the USAâs dead-rubber group finale against Turkey will have paid dividends if the co-hosts are able to keep up the intensity of their play against a Bosnia and Herzegovina team who will sit deep and ask to be broken down.
Bosnia and Herzegovina embrace the slog. They made it to this World Cup by winning back-to-back penalty shootouts against Wales and Italy and will attempt to make the USAâs life a misery in Santa Clara by closing space between the lines, staying compact at the back and playing for set pieces.
Player to watch: Christian Pulisic, USA â The Milan winger made his return from injury against Turkey and could be in line to start this match. Pulisicâs direct running and one-v-one ability could be critical to breaking down the Bosnia and Herzegovina backline.
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