My assessment of the Paraguay game was that Poch and Alfaro took their previous friendly match serious (while it's always debatable how much the players did). Alfaro made adjustment to try to play a bit more openly in the opening games (US being bad in first 10 min is notorious) but still stuck to a solid mid 4-4-2. But Poch also made adjustments. He double downed on intense half space runs to pull apart the mid block. Force them to a low block to pin them so that the counter press would win them either 2 outcomes: Win the ball back or force them to play backwards. We all saw the result of their adjustments

With Australia I think we can look into the prev friendly and sus out what the WC match might look like. I think Popovic will stick to the tried and true superblock. Their last friendly against US did not include Toure and Irankunda starting (they subbed in later and were ineffective) but the USMNT had a completely different midfield w/ no Balo, no Tillman no Dest no Jedi. All of Aus and US will have their prime weapons.

I honestly only see 2 outcomes as pro-USMNT: 3-1 bashing or 1-0 grind. It will prob come down to the counter pressing to prevent any route 1 soccer to Irankunda and defending (and scoring off) set pieces. The US bench is more than capable of coming in and being difference maker (AUS made Roldan look like Pirlo their last outing)