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Crofts instead of a winger or a striker. Playmaker role? ie. not the Bridcutt role of short passes, but interspersed with accurate long balls (forward not just crossfield like Bridcutt). Crofts is not particularly good though (this season and it was too long ago to remember when he was any...

If the opposition play the pressing game, I think the idea is to pass them off the pitch and make them chase shadows. Tempo is diffiicult against pressing teams (causes too many mispalced passes especially if the striker(s) are not running off the ball = Hemed). Patience (Like OG) is often...

Playing two midfielders against three. Leaves them too much stopping and not enough creativity. Against pressing sides like Rotherham, the passing went awry. However, the stats say that the midfield two did OK at passing...

Only need one winger I think when it comes to the crunch 4-2-4 is completely wrong and 4-4-2 is flawed*. Both systems are easy to play, but they are also easy to counter. (*Capello played a working variant which was unpopular, but I thought it was OK.) 4-3-3 (in whatever form it is played)...

4-4-2 (4-2-4) is flawed Independently came to the same conclusion. Agree with him. I have said so before. I use different words but amounts to the same thing.