USA have improved massively since hosting the World Cup sixteen years ago and they go to South Africa with a realistic hope of winning and the USA World Cup odds look generous.
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USA are simply better than Slovenia and Algeria and although there is no longer too much between them and England, the fact that England have won all matches agaisnt USA in the last ten years suggest England will beat USA and USA will finish second.
USA are strongly fancied to qualify from Group C, it may well be behind England but USA are likely to have the measure of Slovenia and Algeria, neither of those sides have put in some of the great performances USA have over the last six months, in particular their performances in the Confederations Cup.
We have established USA are very likely to come second in Group C and that means a last sixteen match against the winner of Group D, which is very likely to be Germany. Germany are not as good as they used to be but are still extremely hard to beat and that could be the end of USA.
Dempsey was just one goal behind USA's top scorer in qualifying Jozy Altidore and it tends to be Dempsey who steps up in the bigger matches with the crucial goals, in last year's Confederations Cup in South Africa Dempsey was his team's top scorer and also the joint second top scorer in the competition alongside world class players David Villa and Fernando Torres.
| Date | Team | Scores | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
|
USA |
8 - 0 | Barbados | |
| Barbados | 0 - 1 | USA | |
| Guatemala | 0 - 1 | USA | |
| Cuba | 0 - 1 | USA | |
| USA | 3 - 0 | Trinidad & Tobago | |
| USA | 6 - 1 | Cuba | |
| Trinidad & Tobago | 2 - 1 | USA | |
| USA | 2 - 0 | Guatemala | |
| USA | 2 - 0 | Mexico | |
| El Salvador | 2 - 2 | USA | |
| USA | 3 - 0 | Trinidad & Tobago | |
| Costa Rica | 3 - 1 | USA | |
| USA | 2 - 1 | Honduras | |
| Mexico | 2 - 1 | USA | |
| USA | 2 - 1 | Salvador | |
| Trinidad & Tobago | 1 - 0 | USA |
USA had a very solid qualifying campaign and qualified with relative ease as many expected they would. Recent performances suggest the USA World Cup odds are more than fair.
| Goalkeepers | Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Marcus Hahnemann (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Tim Howard (Everton) |
| Defenders | Carlos Bocanegra (Stade Rennais), Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA), Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96), Jay Demerit (Watford), Clarence Goodson (IK Start), Oguchi Onyewu (AC Milan), Jonathan Spector (West Ham), DaMarcus Beasley (Rangers) |
| Midfielders | Michael Bradley (Borussia Monchengladbach), Ricardo Clark (Eintracht Frankfurt), Clint Dempsey (Fulham), Landon Donovan (LA Galaxy), Maurice Edu (Rangers), Benny Feilhaber (AGF Aarhus) Stuart Holden (Bolton), Jose Torres (Pachuca) |
| Forwards | Edson Buddle (LA Galaxy), Robbie Findley (Real Salt Lake), Herculez Gomez (Pachuca), Jozy Altidore (Villarreal) |
| Year | Stage of Exit |
|---|---|
| 2006 | Eliminated At Group Stage |
| 2002 | Eliminted In Quarter Final |
| 1998 | Eliminated At Group Stage |
| 1994 | Eliminated In Second Round |
| 1990 | Eliminated At Group Stage |
Back USA to win the World Cup and then lay off if and when they qualify from the group. They should be much shorter odds by then, especially if they win the group.
We are predicting USA will outperform expectations at the World Cup. This means they should be bought in the outright tournament index and a profit should be assured once they qualify from the group.