It's very unfortunate that Argentina lost like that.
This game Argentina did not adopt the previous 442 against Algeria, but instead went back to 433, put Messi at the tip of the formation, playing the so-called strikerless formation, Higuain did not play, it was Pavon appeared in the right winger, while the French side played a deformed 4231, put Matuidi on the left side of the formation, but in fact in the game, still back to the In fact, Matuidi was the one who stepped back to the back to make the tackle.
To be honest, I'm disappointed with this game, Argentina didn't hold France at bay as I expected and then gradually used Messi to break down the French defense, even if they had to play with their own blood, they were too unguarded against Mbappe's speed, and if it wasn't for France's own problems, Argentina would have actually lost 3-0.
France side is also very interesting, in the first half is the main Mbappe, as I said, this day France's goals have three goals from Mbappe, in addition to his own two goals, the earliest 13 minutes of 12 yards, but also Mbappe high-speed charging produced, replace other people can not produce this single knife, Mbappe is one person to get three goals, and the early production of a 12-yard thing is critical. Mbappe made three goals by himself, and the fact that he made a 12-yarder early was crucial, which immediately threw Argentina into chaos and anxiety, and it took a long time for them to stabilize their position, and if his play is not counted, the performance of the French team as a whole was actually quite unstable.
Argentina still let Mascherano start in the back position, they have not corrected Mascherano's problem effectively, France is in fact playing Argentina's three backs to cross the center line at the moment, when there is a lot of space in the backfield, in fact, Argentina should have left two center backs and a trailing back to face all the opponents in the central area, instead of turning around and chasing back. Instead of having to turn around and chase back, so as to form a deep defense, and then add a side back, so as to efficiently limit the counterattacks of France, even if you want to play offensively, you can't be completely unaware of the opponents, right?
The Argentinian defense was very casual and just played the way they wanted to play, but they didn't watch out for France's fastest player, Mbappe. In fact, Mbappe's style of play is the same from Monaco to PSG, especially this kind of long-distance sprinting, he is very good at it, and Rojo was waiting for him at the back of the net, and if we rewatch the video it's very clear that Rojo had at least 2 seconds to turn around or shovel the ball, but Mbappe suddenly kicked the ball forward before approaching Rojo and then sprinted at full speed, thus missing the break. But Mbappe suddenly kicked the ball forward before approaching Rojo and then sprinted at full speed, Rojo wasn't even ready and missed the break, and with two seconds to prepare, Rojo was still slow to turn around and then he fouled him just outside the box, and as a result, the two of them were dragging each other into the box, and he pushed Mbappe again with his hand, and if he hadn't pushed Mbappe, he would have been able to get his hands on Mbappe, and if he hadn't pushed Mbappe, he would have been able to get his hands on Mbappe. Mbappe would still have had the ball, and of course the referee called the foul inside the box for 12 yards.
And then Mbappe had several more rushes and almost scored a second score again.
But France is also paying the price here, Di Maria's equalizer, in front of no French players in defense, the situation was a large number of Argentine personnel pressed into the penalty area, from the point of view of the number of distribution of the French backcourt to stand one or two more people is not wrong, in DiMaria in the middle of the pass, Mbappe is not far away with the walk, Giroud is also in the area, and Kante's position is too far to the right, he chased out too late. He was too far to the right, it was too late for him to catch up, Pogba had already retreated into the back line to defend against the Argentinean trio, and the whole center of the field was empty. This is where France's joint-defense system went wrong, and one of the big reasons was because Mbappe was going to play on the counter-attack, and he had already been charging for 40 minutes straight, so naturally, he wouldn't have had the strength to join in on the defense, and the fact is that France had to be prepared for that anyway. Messi with the ball, Messi was standing next to DiMaria, France directly fixed the defense line in the penalty area on the 18-yard line, where the intensive stand, in fact, is a kind of swinging bus practice, because they are very afraid of Messi breakthrough, so to line up a good wall will not be easy to go to break Messi's ball in order to avoid being over, but this approach must be maintained in front of the field of counterattacking force enough, and However, this approach must maintain enough counter-attacking power in the front court, and the back waist must be very good in the front and back movement, in order to be converted into counter-attacks, otherwise it will only be surrounded by the attack.
Get DiMaria the ball and even from 30 yards he still hits that speedy pump shot, Lloris was a step slow to jump with Pogba blocking his view and only a little too slow to make the save, that's world class power from DiMaria.
