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For any formation to work you need the right type of players... What any formation does tell you is the mind set of the manager and what he feels his team is capable of.

If you had the right players and an awesome back four you could play 4132 the 3 in centre mid would be over run at times and knackered but you would still have two up top.

Or 352 which would technically be a 3142 , yet again your two wide players would have to go box to box and put a proper shift in but you could still have two up top.

what I do know is the mindset of 4231 appears negative as your basically defending with 6 and hoping to nick one or catch them on the break .. and at home thats useless , unless the team comes at you, if not its as dull as dish water.
 
Nobber said:
What nonsense, of course there’s a place for 4-4-2.

Overlapping wingbacks and wingers pushing forward and covering each side position. One midfielder ready to drop back defensively, one ready to link up as an attacking midfielder. Two men in the box playing off each other getting balls from the wing or through from the centre. I’d rather have that any day than one up front and shite possession football hoping to nick a chance.
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With you on that one Nobler
Two wingers who can AND are willing to get back to cover when necessary are the key
The system we employ at the moment does give more defensive cover, but unless you are Man City (with the players they have) it means less goals as the Loan striker tends to be isolated against two C.B's
It might be effective defensively bit not pretty to watch IMO

Boring Boring
 
Football has evolved in such a way that formations come go like fashions. There's no way 4-4-2 is finished, especially during games.

Guardiola played 9 different formations in a year at Bayern!

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BigMarkLeonard said:
Football has evolved in such a way that formations come go like fashions. There's no way 4-4-2 is finished, especially during games.

Guardiola played 9 different formations in a year at Bayern!

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Rember you saying you read his book, did he play 9 formations to suit who he was playing ?
 
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