Lionel Messi is not the same player for his country as he is for his club. True. Neither is Sergio Aguero. Nor Angel Di Maria. Nor Lo Celso, Otamendi, Tagliafico. Neither was Higuain, nor Mascherano, nor Banega. Can you see a trend emerging?

Argentina have many, many problems, tactical and psychological. Not knowing how to deal with Messi is one of the most important…managing that balance between wanting him to be the central figure while remembering he is only one of eleven. Invariably, they do neither.

They lurch from one manager to another, all of whom have different ideas about how they want to play but with no opportunity to actually implement those ideas. They feverishly change players, crossing fingers they’ll stumble across an approach that work.

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