We’ve all complained about Scaloni. We saw how Argentina were poor in previous games.
Today, he made a change. Simeone started the game instead of De Paul.
He may not have played well, but he did his job perfectly, he exhausted Gordon and Spence😂, and he made sure there were no penetrations from that side.
He also did not play his usual two strikers. Alvarez operated from the left in the first half. I remember many pundits saying Argentina play narrow, they don’t use wingers. So, Scaloni decided to actually use wingers, with Messi as a false 9 obviously.
Scaloni’s masterclass wasn’t just starting Simeone. Here comes the changes.
After exhausting the England squad with their dark arts, De Paul came in fresh, and started putting in sweet crosses. Otamendi also came in because he’s an aerial target for those crosses. If you noticed, even before the equaliser, they had so many good crosses and were close to scoring. Gonzalez and Montiel also turned up.
I was complaining about Enzo not playing well, but Scaloni took off Paredes, Enzo dropped deep and just came alive. Should we also mention the delay in the Lautaro substitution? I was wondering why Lautaro didn’t come in earlier, but it was just the perfect time at 81mins.
Please let’s clap for Scaloni. Everything he did today was CORRECT. Please clap for Scaloni👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽