Former Argentina international, Sergio Aguero, has offered some advice to captain Lionel Messi on how to beat Netherlands defender Virgil van Dijk when both teams clash in the 2022 FIFA World Cup quarter-final tie on Friday....CONTINUE READING THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
Aguero expects his friend Messi to play an influential role when Argentina face the Netherlands in the World Cup last-8.
Messi will have his toughest test of the 2022 World Cup so far when he comes up against Liverpool’s Van Dijk, and Aguero leaned on his own experiences of playing against the Dutch star to offer the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner a suggestion of how to approach the quarter-final.
And Aguero, a Manchester City legend, who was forced to retire for health reasons, told ESPN Argentina: “He [Van Dijk] is not fast; he has long legs: ten sprints from me are two from him
“You have to distract him with something else… someone to yell at him from the stands. If I am there, I will start talking to him there.
“He is big. Once in the Premier League, he said that the most difficult to score was me. He plays with your physique; that’s, he’s measuring you and you’ve to find a maneuver for him and do it to him so that he eats it because he’s not one to go out and push.”
