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It's 2026, Messi is 39 years old, and I'm still watching analysts, pundits, and fans spend hours discussing how to stop him. That's one of the greatest compliments any footballer can receive.
Most players at this age are either retired or no longer the main focus of tactical discussions. Yet Messi is still the first player opponents prepare for. That level of longevity is simply unbelievable.
Whether he scores, provides an assist, or creates space for his teammates, the fact that entire game plans are still built around him at 39 says everything about his greatness. Legends leave memories. Messi is still creating them. Goat🐐
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How England's defence can deal with Lionel Messi 👀🇦🇷 🤝 @midnite
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Every macro strategic trade-off can be understood through the tempo, distances, and mobility model.
There have been calls since the very beginning for Argentina to bring in wingers and play with more width. Will that increase the attacking threat? Possibly, but there’s a reason Scaloni hasn’t done it until now.
Argentina are a team that ranks high on the mobility axis. From a defensive perspective, to negate the inherent risk of mobility, they play with smaller distances, which improve the counter-pressing distances and keep the team compact, thus reducing the inherent risk of mobility. The smaller distances allow Argentina to avoid maintaining a strict zonal rest-defence structure, like we see with Spain or England, and instead commit players with much more flexibility and mobility.
If you increase the distances by bringing in more constant width, Argentina end up taking a double risk: high mobility and large distances. To balance it, Scaloni would have to reduce the mobility, although the mobility is essentially what makes Argentina special. Scaloni understands this. That’s why, when he has decided to bring on González in the recent games, it hasn’t been by taking off a midfielder and reducing the numbers centrally, and therefore increasing the distances around the ball. Instead, it has been for a full-back.
The only structural change I would consider effective would be a move to a 3-5-2, since it would maintain the central cluster, preserve the smaller distances, and add more defensive security.
Argentina have scored the most goals at the World Cup and rank second only to France for xG. It’s important to remember that context.
The better direction is to improve at playing through the smaller distances, rather than abandoning the idea that has worked so successfully until now, like Jamie talks about here. For me, the best way to do that is by bringing in Paz instead of Mac Allister.

Jamie Hamilton@stirling_j
Scaloni's Argentina simply aren't playing with the same fluency as they have. This clip is from 2021, but all players are in the WC 26 squad. Messi needs an associative partner like Lo Celso or Paz to sync with. Too many of his close combinations with Macallister break down.
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"For most of history, the bottleneck on making something was never the idea, it was the grind: acquiring the years of skill, raising the money, assembling the team, and getting the permission. So most people’s best ideas died inside them, unmade.
Lift that bottleneck and the thing that decides what gets built is no longer whether people can justify the VC funding or the enterprise-level capital expenditure, but who has something to say.
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The 2026 World Cup semi-finals feature four giants of international soccer and megastars such as Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi.
Both games look a red-hot ticket but, in reality, one is much hotter than the other.
@HenryBushnell on the soaring ticket prices that mean one of the games will currently cost you twice as much to go to as the other.
🔗 nyti.ms/4wK7U3w

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