Hope Davey's put that idea in the grave now. I assume that playing KO and Big Mig up front he thought it would be better to slip balls through the middle for them, well, that didn't happen and when Blackpool defended we had no release ball out to the wing to play, so we ended up going sideways and then backwards. 4 - 4 - 2 from now on with wingers right on the touchline from now on please. Oh and JCR, play an early ball in instead of beating every player.
Davey said in his post match interview that he hadn't got the tactics right, so we switched back to 4-4-2. It doesn't mean to say 4-3-3 won't work against another team. Oh, if you play wingers out on the touch line it's 4-2-4 not 4-4-2.
Simple case of coach talk, and where you draw lines across the pitch.</p> There's a difference in playing two wingers hugging the touch line and two outside mid-fielders. If we played like the Ritchie teams did with two out and out wingers we would only have 2 in mid-field which would be out numbered in central areas. </p>
I shall bow to your superior coaching knowledge Although what you are saying is anyone who plays wingers is playing 4-2-4 which really is ballacks. It's how far up they are playing - 4-2-4 suggests to me that they don't (or rarely) come back in their own half, because they are positioning themselves in the final third, now how can a winger perform his function of wing play if he positions himself in the final third? They don't, they line up alongside the midfield pairing and push forward. 4-2-4 my arse!
Looked to us Like a 4-4-2 but with 3 central midfielders and JCR licence to swap wings. Oh hold on, I said wing, so that means he was playing forward so must have been 4-3-3!
Don't talk wet Nobody in this day and age play wingers in the old sense of the word.</p> Would you class Ryan Giggs as a winger or a wide midfielder?</p>