How coach-on-pitch Messi undid England's tactics on the fly

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England pride themselves on their physicality, so shouldn't it have suited them to face a 39-year-old who spends most of his time walking? Not this 39-year-old. BBC Sport football tactics correspondent Umir Irfan explores a Lionel Messi masterclass.

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We need to identify all factual statements: names (Lionel Messi, England, Argentina, Harry Kane, Anthony Gordon, Morgan Rogers, Emiliano Martinez, Cristian Romero, Lisandro Martinez, Enzo Fernandez, Alexis Mac Allister, Elliot Anderson, Jude Bellingham, Declan Rice, Thomas Tuchel, Lionel Scaloni, Nico O'Reilly, Rodrigo de Paul, Nico Gonzalez, Lautaro Martinez, Jordan Pickford, Djed Spence, etc). Dates? Not explicit dates, just references like "55th minute", "85th minute", "stoppage time", "10th minute". Numbers: 39-year-old, 12%, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, etc. Quotes: There are some quoted phrases like "England pridefulness themselves connected their physicality..." but those are part of narrative not direct quotes. The article uses bold and some quotes like "England gave Argentina & Messi 'too much respect'". We must preserve quotes exactly. We need to rewrite but keep exact quotes. So any text within quotes must stay identical. Also any numbers and names must stay same. 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Not a quote. - "Fernandez struck a superb equaliser successful the 85th minute, aft Messi picked him retired adjacent the borderline of the punishment area." - "Lautaro Martinez past won the crippled successful stoppage clip with a header from Messi's cross." - "Between Gordon's extremity and Argentina's equaliser, England had lone 12% of the shot which meant they spent astir of the 2nd fractional defending in heavy positions." - "It became a tussle of Argentina's onslaught versus England's defence, which lived a charmed beingness for a while." - "After getting immoderate joyousness against Messi successful the aboriginal stages of the game, Anderson's front-footed attack became little effectual with Messi adapting connected the alert to his nonstop opponent's playing style." - "In fact, Messi began to usage Anderson's aggression against him. He held the shot for arsenic agelong as possible, drafting the 23-year-old out, earlier flicking the shot astir the country for team-mates successful the cognition determination was present abstraction to onslaught successful the portion Anderson had vacated." - "For Argentina's opening goal, Messi, aft playing a one-two pursuing a abbreviated corner, took vantage of Anderson's willingness to prosecute successful duels again." - "As Messi dribbled in-field, Anderson near his cardinal presumption to treble up connected the eight-time Ballon d'Or winner." - "Messi cleverly delayed his pass, releasing it lone aft attracting players towards him, which allowed Fernandez plentifulness of abstraction successful which helium could stitchery the ball, prime his people and onslaught decisively astatine extremity without being challenged." - "Messi's gravity draws some Djed Spence and Anderson towards him. Messi past finds Fernandez conscionable extracurricular the punishment area, and helium has abstraction to onslaught with objective accuracy beyond Jordan Pickford." - "England focused connected blocking abstraction centrally, looking to support their pb and halt Argentina playing their earthy game." - "Messi near his cardinal presumption and alternatively stood wherever abstraction emerged. Against England's heavy and centrally compact shape, this abstraction was either heavy – in beforehand of England's artifact – or wide connected the close touchline." - "By moving into these bare spaces unmarked, Messi was either escaped to person the shot with clip and space, oregon helium would resistance players towards him, disorganising England's artifact and opening up abstraction elsewhere." - "The positions helium took up were unorthodox, but they allowed him to grasp power of the crippled with his familiarly awesome dribbling and passing." - "As large as Bellingham was successful in onslaught during the tournament, his antiaircraft positioning connected Wednesday led to situations that allowed Messi to onslaught dangerously." - "In a 4-4-2 block, the near-side striker is commonly asked to travel crossed to assistance support the wide areas. Down Argentina's right, this would person been Bellingham's job." - "Messi, recognising that Bellingham was often caught precocious up the pitch, oregon drawn towards the ball, would usage this arsenic a accidental to clasp a presumption successful the abstraction down him." - "To beryllium much specific, this abstraction was towards the close and often conscionable heavy capable to marque it hard for England's cardinal midfielders to get close." - "This made it casual for Argentina to prolong attacks and created small-sided games that resulted successful unsafe crosses into the box. Messi and a team-mate were often 2 against 2 connected the close flank, but if some the winger and full-back joined Messi, determination were occasions wherever Argentina had a three-against-two overload if Bellingham hadn't travel across." - "Screen drawback from Argentina vs England showing Argentina's 3 vs 2 overload connected the close wing." - "Bellingham is caught precocious and cardinal arsenic Messi moves to the right. Argentina person a 3 against 2 connected the flank with Messi connected the ball." - "Argentina committed galore attackers into the container erstwhile the shot was crossed, which explains Tuchel's determination to a backmost 5 – looking to summation numerical equality successful the box." - "But the England caput coach's determination to determination to a 5-3-2 suited the crippled Messi had decided to play." - "With England's backmost 5 pinned deep, the 3 cardinal midfielders struggled to screen the width of the pitch." - "Messi recognised this and was capable to past play person to extremity but inactive successful that deeper, right-sided role." - "Following Declan Rice's substitution and Nico O'Reilly's introduction, England moved to a 5-4-1 which provided amended sum successful wide areas. The contented England had present again related to Bellingham arsenic helium was moved into an unfamiliar holding midfield role." - "From here, Bellingham's earthy instinct was to driblet person towards his ain extremity earlier past having to marque longer sprints erstwhile looking to adjacent down Argentina's midfielders extracurricular the box. Bellingham struggled to get adjacent and it allowed Argentina to determination the shot from the near broadside of the transportation to the right, wherever Messi could enactment his magic." - "Bellingham's heavy presumption afforded Fernandez the clip and abstraction to get a changeable disconnected from region – under small pressure – resulting successful the country Argentina equalised from." - "By flipping the roles of Fernandez and Mac Allister, giving the second the go-ahead to onslaught crosses successful the box, and by introducing the aerially awesome Nico Gonzalez and Lautaro Martinez and bringing connected Rodrigo de Paul retired wide, Argentina were abruptly looking similar threatening England's extremity with each attack." - "Head manager Lionel Scaloni and Messi had combined to make an attacking set-up that gave them casual entree to the close wing, with reliable crosses and beardown attackers to caput the shot excessively – and they had this for the champion portion of fractional an hour." - "With England's starters battling fatigue, galore retired of position, and facing attacks launched mostly by arguably the top footballer of all-time, it was nary large astonishment that Argentina enactment up what galore would see their champion play of attacking shot successful the tourney truthful far." - Also there is a figure caption: "England gave Argentina & Messi 'too much respect'". 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