Daniel McDonnell

And it's just so easy for him to explain it rather than the third choice.

the third choice striker coming on and scoring a hat-trick, which is sort of just something that they wouldn't necessarily get their head around.

Yeah, no, it's true.

And like even on the pitch, even how the players almost play into that, it's sort of, you know, there's a sort of a selflessness in it.

Like even the second goal yesterday that Paredes plays the pass to Messi, really like he should be looking to have a go himself.

But it's almost like there's this instinctive thing.

No, no, let's feed it to Messi here.

And of course, their whole game plan really is just built around making the space for him.

I do find you get so... At Argentina games, I find them quite hard to get a handle on it sometimes because you're so watching him.

And that was definitely... I was doing a piece about Messi yesterday, so I don't feel too guilty about that.

That was the brief to just do a Messi piece and you're sort of watching him.

And you're almost thinking, are these good?

Like, you're in this stage where they're... Are these a good side?

But, like, obviously, they stretch the game.

They try and use, like, Martinez, Lautaro, or whoever it is, or whether it's Alvarez, to stretch the game, get the full-backs or the wingers high and wide to attack, just to create these spaces...

that he will then sort of stalk into that position.

I'm so happy that the record-breaking goal wasn't the penalty.

I'm way happier that it was the goal that he scored because that is the messy goal.

And you're sort of thinking, I mean, this should be easy really to prevent.

But of course it's not because they have other good players who naturally get the Austrians turned and occupied.