Muzi watching the tiger fight | After careful calculations, Uruguay chose to annoy Messi, and Bielsa opened the victory with this hand

After winning the eighth Ballon d'Or, Messi's life has been quite leisurely.

He has won all the honors he can get, and at least in his own era, he has become the world's first person well-deserved, as for the horizontal comparison with others, this question cannot be established, and naturally there will be no correct answer.

Therefore, it is actually quite a difficult thing to annoy the current Messi.

Uruguay did it. In the South American qualifiers for the World Cup, Uruguay used this method to get the game into the rhythm they wanted, and also allowed themselves to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, so as to win the game.

On top of that, they restrained the angry Messi.

After the number of places in the South American zone has increased to 6.5, the possibility of teams like Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil not participating in the World Cup has naturally been greatly reduced.

However, the South American team's game does not drop because the intensity of the game decreases, and even in a friendly match, their emotions can easily get high.

So after the opening whistle blew, Uruguay, as the visiting team, actively showed their physical advantages at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, including Nunez who led the attack:

It also includes using power on the defensive end to limit the opponent:

As Argentina's core player, Messi is naturally also affected by this, and in the 13th minute, the long-range shot choice after getting rid of it actually has some signs of improvement:

Uruguay's actions need to be viewed according to the scale of the referee, and the referee who enforces the law today happens to have a loose whistle, which will naturally make Argentina at home dissatisfied, and emotions will naturally accumulate gradually.

So in the 18th minute, a clash broke out between the two sides after a confrontation, and Messi's action is a standard red card treatment in the Premier League:

However, the referee did not even issue a yellow card to both teams after this wave of clashes, and it can be seen how loose his whistle is.

Removing the whistle problem, it can be seen that Messi is obviously angry, not only through the action itself, but also through the use of the rushing action in this attack in the 33rd minute, it can also be seen:

And fans and opponents who are familiar with Messi know one thing, an angry Messi will be more dangerous, which many of his teammates and opponents have mentioned.

From a technical and tactical point of view, the angry Messi will play more resolutely, use more power in confrontation and sprinting, and overall, will play more like a striker rather than a second-tier role such as a midfielder or midfielder. The World Cup against the Netherlands was a clear example.

From that point of view, it is not a good thing to fight Messi, but for Uruguay, it is a decision that the benefits will outweigh the risks, as long as it is carefully calculated.

And the current head coach of Uruguay is precisely the Argentine, who is very familiar with Messi's Bielsa.

There are two reasons why the risks outweigh the benefits of fighting Messi at this stage.

The first point is not difficult to analyze. Messi is 36 years old after all, and for whatever reason, taking the initiative to pull up the rhythm will inevitably deplete his physical energy, which will lead him to enter a long adjustment state in the game, so that the pressure on Uruguay on the defensive end will not continue to be tight.

The second point has to do with Uruguay's fundamentals.

Uruguayan football has always been rich in players with outstanding physical fitness, generally tall and at the same time, they can also have both strength and physical fitness, and it is easy for Uruguay to pile up such players in the front, middle and back lines.

Of course, this will keep the team's quality at the level, after all, without a body, there is no tactical execution, but if there is only such a basic set, Uruguay will play more difficult in some games.

In last year's World Cup, their players were significantly better than South Korea's and not inferior to Portugal's, but they didn't play well in either game.

Therefore, if you want to take the team's performance and results to a higher level, Uruguayan football always needs to wait for a special player with outstanding ability to help them control the rhythm and form a combination of fast and slow, long and short game rhythm and tactics with the basic game, so as to play a more comprehensive performance.

In the 2010 World Cup, with the help of Forlan and Suarez, Uruguayan football played a rare good result, after which Forlan retired, Suarez led the team, and also played at a high level in a single game, but especially with the aging of Suarez, the results of Uruguayan football have obviously gone downhill.

That is, today's state: Nunez, Valverde, Araujo three excellent young players in the front, middle and back, but there is a lack of excellent lubricant between each other, De La Cruz and Pellistri are not capable enough, so the team can only play in the tactics of rushing up and playing.

So, how can Argentina, who are playing at home, raise the tempo of the game? This is the most important issue. After all, Scaloni is not an aggressive coach, and the best way is naturally to fight the Argentine players after the opening.

Clearly, Uruguay did.

So after the game became open, the Uruguayan players were given a privileged environment to use their power, and they used this to help defend and also to attack:

Do you expect these tall players to be the first to bottom out after a series of switchbacks and intense battles? That's the average tall player, not the tall Uruguayan player.

So in the 41st minute, Uruguay snatched the ball from Molina's feet and launched a direct attack in the front, and Araujo scored in the back point area:

Coming back in the second half, Scaloni obviously calmed down his players in the face of falling behind at home and losing control of his players, but the predicament on the pitch was also clear, so he chose to add an extra striker to try to open a gap in the team's attack.

This hand is incorrect, because the basis of Scaloni's success is to achieve a balance between attack and defense with Messi, but adding strikers at half time in this campaign, facing high morale, leading by one goal, and using these 15 minutes to replenish physical fitness, Uruguay will only cancel out the effect of adding strikers, thereby accelerating their own collapse.

The hand was played too early.

So in the second half, we can see that the Argentine players did calm down and no longer took the initiative to pull away from Uruguay, but in the face of Uruguay's defense, they still struggled to play an advantage in the middle, and could only test forward from the wing:

This led directly to the lack of effectiveness of the tactics of adding strikers, and also the loss of central midfield tactically and physically, because at the 70th minute, Argentina showed signs of disconnection:

Scaloni was quick to see what was wrong, but the first card was already the same, and the score was not equalised, so there was no point in making amends, and it would disturb the players' minds, so he had to bite the bullet and continue to play.

So Di Maria went on in the 50-minute interval, but there was still no splash, until the 80-minute interval was forced to pull up the rhythm again and poke each other:

At this time, it is naturally easier to score goals in Uruguay:

In the end, Uruguay won away from Argentina and played a good game together.

In fact, Uruguay is not difficult to play at this stage, because as we mentioned, Uruguay have limited tactical options at the moment, in short, if you give them some possession and give them some chance to keep possession for a long time, Uruguay's performance will decline.

But Argentina, playing at home, did not act in this way, or before they had time to do so, the players' emotions were ignited, and they became impatient and angry to dominate their performance.

And that's what Uruguay wants.

So from that point of view, you said that Uruguay's opening decision had nothing to do with Bielsa, and it was all a coincidence, which exposed Argentina's problems and made Uruguay show their strengths.

The likelihood of this is too low.

In the greater likelihood, Scaloni still exposed his immaturity and inexperience in front of Bielsa, not expecting his predecessors to be so cunning and thus failing to warn his players.

This is the more likely plot.