The Tony
02-15-2013, 11:06 AM
Last night saw further proof that the 4-4-2 is on its last legs. The majority of sides involved in last night's Europa League games all utilised the more fashionable and highly vaunted 4-2-3-1 system. Infact both Tottenham and Lyon opted to further implement the system for their match with the game ultimately decided by situations of a static nature. Its quite clear a lot of teams are now simply cancelling eachother out and as more sides take a favourable approach to the system the frequency of games where the outcome is purely decided by who has the better luck during the 90 minutes of play will increase dramatically. We are starting to see this unfold in the Premiership now as apart from the Manchester United being out clear the rest of the teams are realatively close behind and unable to make any inroads on their lead or build a gap on the sides in behind. This can be attributed to teams repeatedly cancelling each other and achieveing similar results over a selction of games.
The question now is what can be done to neutralize the popualarity of the 4-2-3-1 system but at the same time bring about an evolution in the football equation.
One possible solution is to eliminate the barriers and stuctures in the midfield and striker positions and have the players contained within deployed in a more advanced fluidic 4-6 formation with the players forward of the defence all evolving into a greater level of footballing abilty (see any Arsenal game for a example of this).
The question now is what can be done to neutralize the popualarity of the 4-2-3-1 system but at the same time bring about an evolution in the football equation.
One possible solution is to eliminate the barriers and stuctures in the midfield and striker positions and have the players contained within deployed in a more advanced fluidic 4-6 formation with the players forward of the defence all evolving into a greater level of footballing abilty (see any Arsenal game for a example of this).