Netherlands supervisor Louis van Gaal laughed off a query about how he deliberate to cease Lionel Messi within the World Cup quarter-final towards Argentina.
- Van Gaal has particular plans for Messi
- Didn’t reveal his concepts
- Scaloni able to deal with any eventuality
WHAT HAPPENED? Messi has been the discuss of the city earlier than Argentina tackle the Netherlands on Friday. Van Gaal didn’t conceal that he has a tailored plan for his defensive unit to cease the Argentine skipper. However he didn’t reveal the entire of it as he thinks it could be “fairly silly” to take action.
WHAT THEY SAID: “We’re not going to disclose any plans to you – it could be fairly silly of us to take action. Nevertheless it’s not that troublesome to give you a solution as to how one can cease him. You may wish to block and shut the passing traces. I can’t see this creating an excessive amount of of a hoo-ha,” he instructed reporters forward of the match.
THE BIGGER PICTURE: Nonetheless, Argentina supervisor Lionel Scaloni wasn’t having any of it and revealed that they’ve a couple of tactical choices up their sleeves as nicely. “We’ll see what occurs with Lionel tomorrow. We’re used to our opponents developing with one thing totally different. We don’t wish to leap to foregone conclusions. We’d give you a couple of tactical variations of our personal. Now we have sure nuances. We are able to do one thing totally different to harm them. And in the event that they determine to man-mark Lionel, we’ll preserve it in thoughts, too,” he acknowledged.
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WHAT NEXT FOR VAN GAAL? The 71-year-old supervisor will look to proceed his unbeaten run of 19 video games in his third stint as Netherlands supervisor when the Dutch tackle Argentina on Friday. If the Oranje decide up the win, they may face both Brazil or Croatia within the final 4.