The national team and the reasons for the role: he played badly and had bad luck but he also underestimated the game

As if the planets had aligned against each other, the national team lost the game that no one thought they would lose. Why did he lose? I believe that three factors came together, that these three evil planets were operating simultaneously: he played badly, underestimated the game and was unlucky.

The team had no game. Absent the famous “small businesses”, the idea of ​​dominion over possessions and lands never flourished. It was known how the Arabs would play. Two rows of four in very little space, so the best thing to do was look for a change up front and depth on the outside. Tried it, didn’t work. And there was no plan B, aggravated by very low individual performances.

Messi must have played one of his weakest games in his long career in the national team and that was not mistreated with fouls, barely contained with staggered marks. Older than the wind. Now, with Paredes static, with De Paul fluctuating, Gómez for a while and Di María without overflowing and badly with the ball, 10 also had no one to play with, if I had tried. He wasn’t a game leader, obviously.

Goal just starting the game off a penalty that should have been appreciated, it looked like the premier was heading for a comfortable victory. The players gave that sensation, playing two per hour, waiting for that second goal and that third that would arrive sooner or later. They arrived but the LAUNCH it is wicked. So what? He continued to meekly wait for the pears to fall from the tree but he forgot to shake the tree. The pears have not fallen.

And he had bad milk twice. In those microscopic offsides, well sanctioned according to the new system. In that coverage by the Saudi goalkeeper 2 minutes from Messi’s left foot. In the seven-minute flurry in which we went from a calm but insufficient 1-0 to a 1-2 that was unbeatable because the somersault of the result widened the opponent and, on the contrary, stunned the rebellious spirit of the Selection. And he had bad luck defining the few deep plays he created while looking for a draw.

All alarms are active. It was played badly. There were very poor performances and the math indicates qualifying for the round of 16 was too complicated and too much anticipated, even with any results from Mexico and Poland, at the time, the rivals looking more difficult. The first three points were assumed to be in the pocket. Not now. Now we have to row. And it seems that the sea has become an ocean of dulce de leche.