Let's do wc edition. A simple analysis on England vs Ghana. It is very straight forward.

Ghana defend in 451 low block , England attack in 343 shape. It is very difficult to attack with 7 player against 9 man. It is that simple. Against 1 st you want to leave only two CB but TT want to be conservative so he always leave 3 behind.

I had this one prepared before which is Portugal vs Congo.

After this game, many fans criticize Martinez for no midfield but Congo defended in 532 shape so the space is all in the wide area. You can see the space that both Portugal fb has.

The biggest problem is up top. Silva Bruno n cr7 are simply too slow. Their only two player who can really run are neto n Mendes.

This is why I said they are fine. They need to play neto to the right and bring a more explosive player either for Bruno, cr or silva.

Let's do simple analysis on England game. England scored at 55'

England was still trying to press higher but this happen at 56' min. Brilliant tackle by Spence but that is 💀 💀 . Being this open going 1-0 up in semi final after 55' was crazy.

So England got into low block.

That was Gordon playing a wb/fb because now Argentina pushed their player up which bring Gordon to defend. If your winger had to play fb/wb why not just play wb/fb there.

So TT brought it Konsa for Gordon and swirtched to 532. There was another problem called Messi. Do you make sure the ball doesn't get to Messi or just play normal defense.

Rice was the lcm and he was following Messi in the middle. The problem now, England was extremely narrow in the middle.

Now you see de Paul free on the far side and Spence couldn't close him down because there was somebody on the sideline. De Paul crossed and McCallister had a free header. So 532 didn't work as England was overloaded on the right side.

So England played 541.

England no longer overloaded on the right hand side.

Messi go the ball and he move left and a simple game on the right and switch from right to left and Messi made Fabregasesque pass and Argentina almost scored.

Honestly, it is hard to say what TT need to do. Some say TT need to bring Rashford/Watkins. Not sure those two are known to be disciplined defensively and you have to be in this case. Messi is dropping as dm and keep making Fabregasesque pass and it will be your job to mark him.