Luck was finally in Argentina's favor, and this change of formation was fine-tuned to produce good results in the match against Venezuela, which Argentina eventually won 2-0.
Argentina's current formation varies between a 433 and a 442 diamond, but the main axis of Argentina in this year's Copa América is still to put Messi in the attacking midfield position, controlling the ball forward, focusing on how many people around Messi to allow him to pass the ball or to push forward against the wall. In previous matches, Argentinean players had problems with each other's running position, often staying in the position where Messi could not deliver the ball. The Argentine players had problems with each other in previous games, often staying in positions where Messi couldn't deliver the ball, or passing the ball to a single, obvious target, so Messi's passes were intercepted, and more often than not, he was surrounded and the ball was broken up.
Argentina 2-0 Cada, what's the problem?
In this Copa América last eight match, Argentina's formation has obviously changed, it looks like 433 at the beginning, but Messi is still switching between the center and the side at the beginning of the match, and it's still the same pattern as before up to this point. However, Argentina made a significant change this time, that is, it was actually Messi's two left and right midfielders behind him who formed the driving force, instead of Messi's control of the ball.
In Argentina's diamond 442, the left and right midfielders are De Paul and Acuna, De Paul is more technical while Acuna is a very capable runner. In this game, Argentina let these two actively forward, and the front wingers to switch positions, because Messi into the middle of the Argentina will be converted to 442, at this time Aguero and the striker LautaroMartinez more inserted into the penalty area, usually Messi diagonal movement and release the ball, and the center of the midfield, De Paul or Acuna directly run quite a long distance to the front of the press! to the outside of the box on both sides of the field.
But these two are not good enough to break through as wingers, so the fact is that Argentina didn't exactly cut in from the wing all the time in this game, and then there were the wingbacks on both sides of the field, especially Taglifico on the left, who pressed very deeply this game. Instead of playing a cross, he stopped in the middle of the field, played with Messi, sent Acuna deep into the center of the field to receive the pass, and then he made a diagonal run into the penalty area.
At this point Messi is actually on the outside of the box, even behind Taglifico and Acuna, so that if anything happens they can immediately pass the ball back to Messi. At this point, the defenders around Messi have already left in order to defend against these two, so Messi can still release the ball.
If you refer to my post above on what's wrong with Argentina, you can see that Argentina didn't play at high speed and high pressure to get a few men going in this game, but rather this slower and a bit more positional game. It's still a three-man team, because Argentina's strikers don't have enough destructive power in the penalty area, Aguero doesn't seem to have the will to pull to the side to form a four-man team, and Argentina's centerbacks don't have enough ability to chase back and don't quite dare to press past the center line, so it's already quite a limitation to be able to form a three-man team locally with this kind of style of play. But in any case, this approach finally allows Messi to be a little free, and in fact also formed the side of the stack, although the final into the side of the pass is not accurate, the center of the ability to grab the point is also insufficient, this kind of pass is actually Argentine strikers in the penalty area is not good. But in the end, it was a situation of near-suppression (the high number of corners Argentina took in this match proves that at least they put the Venezuelan defense under some pressure to produce corners).
Judging by the content of the game, Argentina just barely managed to straighten themselves out, but it wasn't enough to break down Venezuela, currently third in defense in this Copa America, with an organized battle, and it was going to be a very long stalemate, but luck was on Argentina's side. Ten minutes into the match, Messi's corner kick from the left dropped to the right 16-yard box, where Aguero was ready to fire in a low shot from outside the area, and as the ball passed through the Venezuelan crowd, striker Lautaro Martinez swept the ball into the goal with his back heel.
In fact, it was very difficult for Argentina to break down Venezuela's full-strength offense, after all, many of their positions are not strong enough to take them on. It was a poor goal in terms of speed and angle, but the defender and goalkeeper were caught off guard, and it was certainly full of surprises.
Argentina immediately went into a defensive counterattack after the 1-0 lead, this premature goal made the game actually become a bit dull, Argentina also dare not press on the full, after all, they are still very concerned about the Venezuelan
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Striker Rondon: Argentina will wait for Venezuela to get impatient and press the ball hard, and if they have the speed and space, then Messi and Aguero will be able to score again.
Venezuela was faced with a premature turnover of the ball and had to come out to attack, but it was a different state of affairs from the one they were expecting, and they didn't expect Argentina's uncharacteristic full retreat from the defense, and the improved coverage of each other's runners. In the end, Venezuela relied too much on Rondon, Argentina let the defenders stay close to Rondon, while Rincon was guarded by Parades. As a result, Venezuela didn't have any other players who could change the situation, even if they attacked outside Argentina's penalty area, they didn't have any effective means to enter the penalty area to make the last strike, and they could only barely get the ball up to look for Rondon. Rondon utilized his destructive power to keep the Argentine defense in check, and as a result, the two teams stayed in a stalemate, which was actually more like a lack of attacking power on each other's part.
