Octsky wrote:maguskwt wrote:Some people on here need some lessons on modern football formations. In modern football, there is no such thing as a formation being a defensive or offensive. It really depends on how you execute it and what type of players are playing. If you're playing Johnson and Aurelio as wing backs can it be called a 5-3-1? or is it 3-5-1. Well the answer is that it is BOTH! this is the flexibility of this system and you need to have wingbacks who have lots of stamina. If you're pressing your opponents the wingbacks attack and become 3-5-1. If you're defending the wing backs track back and becomes 5-3-1. Similarly if you're playing 3 in the middle than it can be the offensive 4-3-3 or defensive 4-5-1 or it can also still be a 4-4-2 (see Gerrard and Torres attacking). People on here seem to just see what they wanna see and say "arghh how can rafa play 4-5-1 (worse 5-4-1) against this team or that team". Yesterday we had kuyt, babel and benayoun as attacking players and johnson and aurelio also joins in the attacks from the wings. Can't it be said then that this is 3-2-2-3? To me it looked like a pretty balanced team and shouldn't have any problems beating Sunderland on paper. And yet we have people generalizing it "ughhh rafa is playing 5-4-1 against Sunderland".The old-fasion-ness on here sometimes beggars believe.
Playing 5-4-1 or as u said 3-5-2 has long long been countered by 4-4-2 and model formation of 4-3-3 has been used recently to counter the conventional 4-4-2.
Why played 3 centre backs when they cant even properly marked 2 CF??
Why isolate a single CF on top when we need to win this game?
the problem of playing 3 CB is that you dont need 3 CB to mark 2 average CF (ok, Bent is just a bit above avg), u dont need 3 CB when you are chasing a goal. He11, i used to remember the Mourner or old fergie playing CB as target man in the dying min to grab a precious goal.
If there's an argument of Ngog and Voronin not being good enough to start and lead the line with Kuyt when Torres is down, then why are they still in the club?? Why is there no backup for Torres? or why are there backups but u dont trust them to lead the line when needed, then why are they still here?
you dont need to be a rocket scientist to tell that Torres wont be playing every single game.
if we played 5-4-1 against the great Sunderland team, then how are we going to play against Manyoo? 6-3-1?? or 7-2-1??
I think the extra CB was to counter us being light down the middle.
