The flapping of a butterfly’s wings can unleash a different phenomenon on the other side of the planet. The theory of unpredictable changes in butterfly effect fell on the Argentine team with force during the last days. The alarms set off by Lionel Messi, Ángel Di María, Paulo Dybala and Joaquín Correa put all speculation on the list of 26 players who will play in the World Cup on hold.
During the next few days – he has time until October 21 – Lionel Scaloni will present the preliminary summons for the contest in Qatar. No surprises are expected, perhaps a call that makes more noise than another, but the bulk of the general call should not have weighty exclusions or bombastic inclusions. The tension will be focused towards November 14 when it is time for the defining cut. And the injuries of Di María and Dybala could trigger a butterfly effect.
The first question that the coaching staff will surely ask is how many footballers who had physical problems in the weeks before the World Cup are they risking taking on. Each case is unique, of course, but the panorama 40 days after the debut against Saudi Arabia indicates that Juan Musso and Juan Foyth, for example, have still not added minutes after several weeks of their respective injuries. As they lose ground in the fight to be in Qatar against Gerónimo Rulli and Gonzalo Montiel, the real puzzle is on offense.
The flapping of a butterfly’s wings can unleash a different phenomenon on the other side of the planet. The theory of unpredictable changes in butterfly effect fell on the Argentine team with force during the last days. The alarms set off by Lionel Messi, Ángel Di María, Paulo Dybala and Joaquín Correa put all speculation on the list of 26 players who will play in the World Cup on hold.
During the next few days – he has time until October 21 – Lionel Scaloni will present the preliminary summons for the contest in Qatar. No surprises are expected, perhaps a call that makes more noise than another, but the bulk of the general call should not have weighty exclusions or bombastic inclusions. The tension will be focused towards November 14 when it is time for the defining cut. And the injuries of Di María and Dybala could trigger a butterfly effect.
The first question that the coaching staff will surely ask is how many footballers who had physical problems in the weeks before the World Cup are they risking taking on. Each case is unique, of course, but the panorama 40 days after the debut against Saudi Arabia indicates that Juan Musso and Juan Foyth, for example, have still not added minutes after several weeks of their respective injuries. As they lose ground in the fight to be in Qatar against Gerónimo Rulli and Gonzalo Montiel, the real puzzle is on offense.
With Messi taking care of the contracture in the twin so as not to risk too much and Di María with 20 days of recovery to be able to overcome his injury, Scaloni already has two fixed in attack that lit caution lights on the physical issue.
And those two facts are a kind of butterfly flutter that can reconfigure everything that the coaching staff thinks, which is closely following what is happening with Dybala and Correa, who has not played for Inter for a week due to a “discomfort in the tendon of left knee.” Assuming that the special treatment that already started the Jewel It gives you a quick recovery from your injury to the left rectus femoris. Is it worth risking carrying two other attacking pieces that had some kind of medical mishap in the previous one? Or is it preferable to turn the page and have spare parts that have fully traveled the final stretch? Questions that only the coaching staff can answer.
The butterfly effect He had a first slight flutter for Messi, a second more powerful one due to the seriousness of what happened with Dybala and a third one that already disrupted the analyzes with the noodle. Ángel Correa, who seemed to carry the nickname of “footballer 27 ″ with all the healthy surnames, is now beginning to gain ground while affirming his level at Atlético de Madrid. Giovanni Simeone, who has spent two years without sitting at least on the bench of the National Team, is becoming a more considerable last name given the shortage of center forwards and their good metrics in Italian football.
And here the TEG that Scaloni will play with his assistants for the World Cup will come into play. What each one contributes and what level of risk they are willing to assume. If Messi and Di María, two starters and fixed on the list, gave warnings of muscle fatigue -one- and injury -the other-, how far do you bet on those who come from behind?
No one is exempt from suffering a mishap even during the tournament, but it is clear that those who arrive injured or with little filming can go from the list of possible to expendable due to the loads that drag the headlines. A logic similar to the one that hovers over the figures of the tucu Correa and Dybala can also position themselves on Nico González, who has accumulated less than 90 minutes of activity in Fiorentina during the last month and a half after living with a series of physical problems. His development on the court during the coming weeks will be key for the former Argentinos Juniors.
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