GERMANY HAVE THE PLAN TO WIN WORLD CUP::
The Germany camp insist they have a plan. They have sat down to discuss the threat of Lionel Messi and come up with a way to try to stop him. So what will it be? And more to the point from Argentina’s perspective, how will Alejandro Sabella’s team make sure their little maestro influences the game in the areas they want?
On the first point, I think we can safely discount man-marking. Nigel de Jong, admittedly, did it effectively for Holland until chronic fatigue forced a withdrawal. Louis van Gaal could therefore claim justification for going out of his way to shackle Messi.
But it is different for Germany. For a start, Joachim Löw does not boast a player quite like De Jong, someone ideally suited to this specific role.
Yes, he could ask, say, Sami Khedira to follow Messi around but that would severely detract from the midfielder’s game. Khedira has far too many attacking qualities to restrict him this way. Bastian Schweinsteiger is a slightly different matter but, again, I cannot see him being tied to this one-dimensional role.
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