Argentina’s World Cup did not get off to the best of starts and now they will have their hands full trying to emerge as group winners. Argentina had a very tough qualifying campaign, with them qualifying on the last day. Their saviour that day was a certain Lionel Messi.
The free-flowing football that had become synonymous with the Argentina teams of yesteryears has given way to laboured performances. In order to get the ball rolling in the right direction, Argentina needs to tweak a few things, tactically as well as with regards to personnel.
An implementation of these changes would place Argentina in a much better position to stake their claim on the ‘ultimate prize’. However, if they continue playing the way they did against Iceland, they are just a calamity waiting to unravel. If they get their act together, they will survive the ‘Group of Death’, but a failure to do so will result in a quick and sudden ‘death’ which will surely affect a million lives back home.