Berhalter thinks USA ‘can beat anyone’
USA boss Gregg Berhalter is pretty confident of USA’s chances at the World Cup ahead of their Monday clash against Wales
United States will go up against
Waleson their World Cup opener on Monday and head coach Berhalter fancies his team’s chances against Wales or any opponent in the World Cup.
USA hasn’t had the best of track records at the World Cup, with them failing to even qualify for the last World Cup but it seems that Berhalter hasn’t got any confidence issues at least.
"What I do believe is that on our best day we can beat anyone in the world. Anyone,"
Berhalter told ESPN.
"Look, it is a great honour to play in the World Cup, but we don't want to just be participants. We want to perform.
"We think the first step is getting out of the group. And the second step is, in the knockout games, playing our best possible game and seeing how far we can go."
Juventus midfielder Weston Mckennie was more realistic about
USA’s opponents, claiming that he and his teammates will take it one match at a time.
"As a team, as a group, we always want to just focus game by game. So of course with Wales being the first one, there's no way that we're going to look past them or anything because we know they're a strong team.
"We know that it's going to be a hard game. But we definitely want to win the first game, to come out with three points.
"[It's been] just three, four years of just working up to this moment. I think all the guys are ready to go, and the staff are ready to go and put a game plan together. So hopeful we execute that."
USA will face Wales and England in Group B before playing the final and possibly decisive match against Iran.
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