(12-06-2013 03:59 PM)9erken Wrote:  I'm surprised how many are saying that the US group is the "group of death". It's a tough group, but Group B is the group of death if there really is one group that stands above the rest. Maybe people are underrating Chile? Australia is comparable to the US, Chile is tougher than Ghana, the Netherlands is much tougher than Portugal and Germany and Spain are a wash. I think one of the two European teams doesn't make it out of the group, probably the Netherlands. I sort of feel like the American media is overrating our team and Ghana's team a bit.

I think the order of games helps the US, hopefully Germany is resting their starters by that last game and we can steal a point. Have to beat Ghana to start off with. Just wish that game was the one that was in the jungle, because then the Germans would have even less reason to play starters (draining them). I don't expect the US to make it out, but I'll be rooting hard for them to do so.

I stopped readingwhen you said AUS is comparable to USA... We are 14th, AUS? 59th...