#ARGENG

Hi Thomas

Please take note of my tactics for tonight and make them yours. This is a unique opportunity and if you fail you're out (and of the job too btw).

So... listen carefully 

1. File your team at the last minute available. Leave Argentina hanging...

2. DO NOT FIELD Kane nor Bellingham at the start. Kane will not last 90 minutes so keep his powder dry. The same for Bellingham as the Argentinians (and the referee??) will make sure he will be red carded in the first 20 minutes. Spoiler alert...you cannot win with 10!

3. Start with Watkins and Toney at the front BOTH! with Rashford in the middle right behind them in a mid forward role. Demand that Pickford keep pinging long balls to them exploiting the offside position with the main goal of exhausting Argentina's centre backs in the first half... then unleash Kane and Bellingham! Make clear to Toney and Watkins that they are only playing for 45 minutes and should be "dead" by half-time just like a Keeley's 800m pacemaker!

4. DO NO COVER Messi! Ask your team to "ignore" him and thwart any Argentinian pass to him. All should keep a keen eye and not allow him the ball one step before. He will be frustrated (red carded in your dreams) and will have to come backwards to have a feel of the ball. As soon as he passes it to someone else...start item 4. again

5. Play Rice at left back to cover any dangerous ground that Messi could use. Nico Reilly IN FRONT of Rice 

6. Start James and Eze in the midfield 

7. If by any chance you score a goal in the first half keep pushing for another one and if Argentina make any attacking substitutions to come back add Kane and Bellingham IMMEDIATELY!

GOOD LUCK 👍