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Interesting read, given we now play 433 instead of 442-ish.

Well?

According to my Prem guide, Chelsea and Everton don't. But you're correct about Leicester.

It wasn't me who cited them as examples.

Look, you stick with your Pulis, Allardyce and Pardews. I'll take something more interesting. PS if you have to use Pulis, Allardyce and Pardew for your argument surely this tells you something?

Whatever you say it's still the second tier of English football...it's not the top level. And I do concede you can do pretty well with simple things like good organisation below the top flight. The lower down the pyramid you go you can get along with even more basic attributes like a...

As I said, it might prevail in the 2nd tier.

My views on 442 are quite simple. It might do well in the Championship but any half decent manager with half decent players can easily pick off such a static and linear formation. If you know exactly where players will be (which you do in a 442)...it's piss easy to play against them.

Good point well made.

It's a very predictable system to play against though. You know exactly where each and every player is.

:lolol: yeah. I can just imagine Jogi Löw thinking "what we need right now is two solid banks of 4 and some strikers" as he decides how to unpick a team. And when this, inevitably fails, is plan B the "tall fella"?

You want boring and predictable then 442 is your formation. Can't imagine any of the more exciting teams in football think 442 is the way forward. Come to think of it, it's just the English who clamour for it.

Er, no.

This.

Disappointing. Dinosaur football.