Tim Vickery

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Indo Sport · Tim Vickery bumper World Cup preview | Neymar returns, can Messi retain? · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

That was without Messi.

When they won the final in the Copa America 24, they improved after Messi went off injured.

So the group dynamics has changed a little bit.

Messi's not expected to carry the whole show anymore, may not play every minute of every game, but no doubt about it, he's still very, very important to the cause.

a champion footballer with Liverpool and it goes on and on so as you said probably less dependent on Messi but having said that still the same core I think 17 players from the last squad are still there which effectively is 19 because Lo Celso and Nico Gonzalez were only missing from Qatar because they picked up injuries late on they were fundamental parts of the team who couldn't go to the World Cup so effectively it's 19 which is good and bad

it's good in terms of the midfield, that continuity, and Enzo and McAllister are now consolidated.

full of the swagger of being world champions.

They've lost Di Maria, though, which is hard, hard.

I think it's impossible to replace.

The place where the continuity is a problem is defence.

It's the same defensive unit.

And that's not really by choice.

That's because no one has come through.

Scaloni's had a look at a few defenders and he hasn't been convinced by any of them.

And if you remember the number of times that defensive unit collapsed under pressure in Qatar,

you think this World Cup with an extra knockout round, there's a day when this is going to go wrong.

And history tells us it's very difficult, if not impossible, to do what Argentina are trying to do.

Italy retained the World Cup in France in 38.

Brazil retained the World Cup in Chile in 62.

No one's ever retained it outside your own home continent.

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