I guess we'll just have to disagree about Australia. As far as Chile, against the other 4 qualifiers from conmebol, Chile went 2-5-1 in those 8 games, scored only 11 goals, while giving up 20. That is why in my opinion they are overrated. Uruguay has not been playing good these past 2 years. Conmebol has 3 legit teams, the other 3 are above average, but not better than the US.

I don't know why you would think that playing Beasley in the back is bad. On the contrary, it shows that the US is deep enough at midfield that they can have midfielders playing out in the back. That's the ultimate goal for teams is to be able to be deep enough that you can have technically skilled players at the outside backs. Now the center back position we're very weak at, I'll agree with that.