01-07-2018, 13:16
In international football I reckon , unlike club football where you can bring in talent from outside, you've got the players the genepool has provided.
Even if you accidentally find you've become the manager despite being the secret love child of Sam Allardyce and Tony Pulis, and you're presented with a nation currently full of forwards and midfielders backed by totally incompetent defenders, you'd still consider playing to your strengths. Even doing what they done Argentina got a good share of possession and scored three. What might they have done? (But they also went through a terrible qualification too without apparently learning anything either.)
How could you play Messi as a false centre forward in a country full of centre forwards leaving him no one to slip in a clever pass to ...... at which he is uniquely adept? I reckon only the man himself could have so little self-knowledge as to devise a tactical system that neutralised him from the kick-off. I reckon it was like one of those films where the lead actor turns out to be directing and producing too. First you think, how could he do all that? And very quickly you realise he couldn't do any of it. Then you find he adapted it himself from a short story no-one's heard of ......... and Jeez it's 3 hours 20 long.
When Messi retires keep him well clear of management, that's my theory.
Even if you accidentally find you've become the manager despite being the secret love child of Sam Allardyce and Tony Pulis, and you're presented with a nation currently full of forwards and midfielders backed by totally incompetent defenders, you'd still consider playing to your strengths. Even doing what they done Argentina got a good share of possession and scored three. What might they have done? (But they also went through a terrible qualification too without apparently learning anything either.)
How could you play Messi as a false centre forward in a country full of centre forwards leaving him no one to slip in a clever pass to ...... at which he is uniquely adept? I reckon only the man himself could have so little self-knowledge as to devise a tactical system that neutralised him from the kick-off. I reckon it was like one of those films where the lead actor turns out to be directing and producing too. First you think, how could he do all that? And very quickly you realise he couldn't do any of it. Then you find he adapted it himself from a short story no-one's heard of ......... and Jeez it's 3 hours 20 long.
When Messi retires keep him well clear of management, that's my theory.