The reshuffle is the story, and it’s barely registered.
Lionel Scaloni reshaped his side into a 4-4-2 with a genuine curveball — Exequiel Palacios deployed at right-back, a role he almost never plays — banking, correctly, on so much possession that he’d rarely be dragged out of position.
Ahead of him, Giuliano Simeone has been the liveliest source of menace, all direct running and energy down the right, while Julian Alvarez has dropped in to pivot and link play with Giovani Lo Celso pulling the strings from deep.
Jordan, set up to defend and survive, simply haven’t had the ball long enough, and their few forays forward have come to little against Nicolas Otamendi and Marcos Senesi.
It’s the luxury of strength in depth: rotate eight positions, change shape, and still look this fluent. One feels the margin should be wider.
