In 2022, what won Scaloni the World Cup was moving on from the hierarchy and making some very big calls.
Enzo and Mac Allister were never starters going into that World Cup, but after that Saudi Arabia game, big calls were made, and Argentina wouldn’t have won the World Cup without it.
Yet, four years on, when it’s time to make similarly brave calls, he simply refuses to do so, and I cannot bring myself to understand it.
Ok, fine, you don’t want to start with the likes of Paz and Simeone. It is what it is. But for them to get ZERO minutes off the bench, when this side is in dire need of dynamism everytime Messi isn’t on the ball? It’s inexcusable.
No width, no legs, no pace. It’s Messi or nothing 95% of the time.
England haven’t been particularly good themselves, but I can’t in good faith see this Argentine side getting past it.
Not without Scaloni making some very brave decisions, something he’s been completely unwilling to do.
Scaloni has to start using his bench way more. And beyond the generic Nico Gonzalez/Lautaro Martinez subs.
There’s so much quality just wasting away on the sidelines. I don’t get it.