If I were up 1-0 against Argentina 🇦🇷…
Oversimplified
Winning 1-0, 35 minutes to play, I’d prepare a striker and a midfielder to be ready to enter the game at the 60 minute mark.
Tactically, what’s been working to get the team to 1-0, is pressing high initiated by Harry Kane.
Double down on the press, replace tired legs with fresh legs and persist
Subs need to bring on speed and threats. The second goal is there, let’s go seek it out fearlessly.
Make playing out of the back difficult for Argentina, make it nearly impossible to break lines into the midfield without immense pressure. Let them dump balls over the top, we know we have the size, strength and speed to deal with it
In possession, wingers stay high and find more central areas. Push the outside backs into the midfield, keep them wide, and possess in numbers within their half.
On a loss of possession, closest player to the ball initiates the press, force their play to one side of the field and ignore the weak side. Do everything we can to win the ball back, in their half.
At the “hydration break” I’d share one message:
“We cannot and will not sit back and allow this team to attack us.
We know now, the opposite happened and the world knows the result.
Get 1, then go after 2 and 3 aggressively. Assume Argentina will score, at least once.