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France vs Argentina
Both teams are trying to answer how do you play with effectively a player down out of possession. I think Griezmann is a really important player for France because he allows France to be able to make up, mitigate the problems that Mbappe offers. And so they're forming a 442 mid-block, which a lot of teams will do, but they're doing it in quite a different way just to mitigate. Argentina are doing a similar thing there. With Messi what they've been doing more is just sort of allowing him to do what he does. But having Julian Alvarez as the attacking player alongside him, he's been doing a huge amount of defensive work as well. So