Summer Mercato 2010

Originally Posted by brk

Actually 442 isn't viable anymore, since it has only three bands, 4XX and not four, 4XXX. You can't play with three anymore because of the intense physicality of professional football nowadays. Playing against a team with four bands means you have less room to move and they just pummel you into submission; meaning the big gap between attack and midfield, or midfield and defense is too much that players become isolated.

When people say 433, they don't mean it literally, meaning that it's a flat 3 in the middle or attack. It's usually just shorthand for 4312 or 4231. The difference is that you don't have three lines of players anymore, but four. The variant of the 442 that most closely resembles that classic formation is a 4411, and that's considered to be an ultra defensive formation nowadays.

we played for a long time 4-3-2-1 Christmas Tree under Carlito...

That's sort of what we're doing now... it's a not a 4-3-3.. the 3 up top are not all forward.. Ronaldinho floats somehwhere between mid and forward..he cuts in as well..so I would not say 4-3-3...

Probably Barca plays the most like a 4-3-3 but everyone gets into attack in that team..they play 1 touch and everyone's always moving out of their positions....

I'd say the formation we used against Lecce should be our GO_TO standard formation. Then, we can also do a 4=2-3-1 when we need goals or against lesser teams...

Robinho can play in Ronaldinho or Pato's positions..while Pato can play in Ibra's if he's out. Simple as that. That will be the way they play.

Pirlo will play in that formation just like he did against Lecce and also Seedorf a lot..

If we play a 4-2-3-1 (Please everyone stop saying 4-2-4)

Then,,,, we'll play like this:

Bonera----Nesta--T. Silva----Antonini
----------Flamini--Ambrosini/Gattuso-
Pato----------RObinho---------ROnaldinho
---------------Ibra---------------------