Why football formations aren't as important as you think

I DEMAND THE HORSE SHIRT IN THE MERCH STORE

Ahhh, so that's why Maguire sometimes becomes a striker in defence. Makes sense 😂

I really needed to hear this😂

I coach at the U13 and U15 level. My players are always concerned about positions. Last game, one of my players, a left winger, came up to me complaining about how our left fullback kept standing where he wanted to be, right on the touchline in the attack when in possession. Next training, I showed some of our recordings this season and did some tactical analysis and showed that he was so much more useful in the previous games while playing in that left half-space rather than receiving the ball on the touchline. He always had a good touch and was quick on his feet, so I had told our fullback to push into his space and get him to move into the half-space. On paper we are a 4-3-3 but it really looks more like a 3-2-5. It's very tactically challenging for the players but I realized that having them play these tactically challenging positions and training their brain on how to move the ball forward, we end up picking up the pace towards the end of the season and win games really easily.

I find this really interesting and think it's connotation the increase in fluidiity can be replicated in Football Manager or Fifa without losing all sense of control of your team

horse ➡️ 🐎

This is so true. Teams have two formations. When in possession of the ball and when not in possession of the ball. Football is so interesting when you're interested in the tactics. 😅😅

The mans shirt really made me interested

"The numbers don't matter" - J.J. Bull

I've always thought of the formation as the defensive stance, because that's when a team tends to be most structured. When the 433 first started being used everywhere, fullbacks would often overlap to provide the width and yet it wouldn't be referred to as a 235 just because they were acting as traditional wide midfielders. That's why 'three at the back with wingbacks' doesn't make sense. Wingbacks are defenders, typically offering a team's sole source of width since they were simultaneously their team's fullbacks and wingers, and since nobody uses traditional wide midfielders outside of a classic 442, it's a back five.

its not the formation, its the roles and instructions as real tactics, formations just the base to build tactics but still important to run the tactics. no hardware without software

Need that shirt!

I don't even pretend to know what's really going on..

It's about the skill and role of the players

What's the animal on the shirt?

I'm no genius analyst, but i said that even as a teen, it's sport, players move individually to make did happen

Are y’all becoming aware of this. Bielsa once said that during a game, a team can perform up to 20 different formations, within a game, due to the circumstances of the play at the moment. That the media has only taught the public ‘geometry’.

you guys are the ones shilling formation nonsense all day on your channel

This has been the case for a long time too. Even 20 years ago, the Arsenal Invincibles wouldn’t have looked like a 4-4-2 even though that’s what it was on paper: most obviously, Bergkamp was not a striker.

when i played in my school team against other schools we played a 4222 then ended up just having all 9 except the striker near our box