Saudi Arabia expose another collective Argentina failure in upset for the ages

Lionel Messi, in characteristic pose with Argentina. Image: Xinhua News Agency/PA Images Argentina 1 Saudi Arabia 2 A WORLD CUP upset in the classical sense, junking everything we thought we knew.

Renard’s team accentuated the sport’s on-pitch revolution instituted by the Barcelona team of Messi’s peak, a defensive effort based not on clogging their own penalty area but instead pushing up very high, crushing the midfield space in which Messi has been doing the best work of his final years. But much of their success was rooted in Argentina’s shocking lack of craft. Renard said after the game that he wasn’t happy with his side’s first-half performance — “We can’t play like we played in the first half” — the issue being they didn’t press the ball well enough. His half-time anger was another indictment of his opponents.

Meanwhile, Argentina’s vaunted defensive improvement – perhaps an illusion created by the full-backs’ conservatism – faded away too. The first goal was caused by another kind of inflexibility, as the first-choice but patently unfit Christian Romero was picked at centre-back over Lisandro Martinez and creaked with rust as he was beaten to a second ball by Saleh Alsheri, who then slotted the ball beyond Emi Martinez.

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