The World Cup

[Sean Thornton]

Every time Messi draws a foul I want England to accuse him of diving.

Love to see him get some clog for 90 minutes and not have a kick. They rely so much on him it would be worth having Stones just man mark him all game finally answering the question in the affirmative that he probably wouldn’t have been able to do at away at Stoke on a wet Tuesday night

You can’t have Stones man mark him. To start with hasn’t got the engine. As previously said, Anderson who did a great job filling the space where the through balls to Haaland could have come from.

 

[BazWainwright]

You can’t have Stones man mark him. To start with hasn’t got the engine. As previously said, Anderson who did a great job filling the space where the through balls to Haaland could have come from.

Anderson is the answer. Messi, for all his gift, only has a certain amount of running steps in those aged legs and if he has a pretty dynamic man-marker who doesn't lunge in and end up on the deck as he skips over and drives him wide or backwards we can possibly deal with him. He plays a distinct inverted nine these days and runs at defences daring them to gamble on the tackle. The defence do not need to be bamboozled by his deftness and prevent themselves ball watching because he will be in and on goal withing three short passes. Stop the cross, stop the one-twos, drive him away from goal and stop him shooting from the 20 yard mark. Anderson needs to be on him all match and not let him get more than a metre from his position.

We also need to not play pretty football playing it out from the back but 'gerrit forrad' and play in their half. Argentina have an unbearable habit of scoring goals from nowhere, and we don't half throw the dice passing it out of defence.

 

[The Crab]

Channelling my InnerInfantino, I'm going to say - that's the plan...

You’ll need an exorcism after that.

The power of Blatter compels thee…