Birdy
Senior Member
Tactics is not your thing, switch back to the Negreira case and defending your tap-in merchant pal!
1) A wingback is enough to stretch your backline, as yout fullback has to come out and defend leaving the penalty box with 2 CBs vs often 3 players (striker and 2 AMs storming in the box). Having 2 players on each flank creates numerical advantage there but serious numerical disadvantage both in md and in the backline, so is not to be preferred
Probably you didn't watch the Atleti-RM 3-1, because they killed you with wingbacks
2) The 4-diamond-2 is obsolete whether you like it or not. No top team in 2023 plays like that, and thank god there are many many formations top teams use these days. Your oldie coach is not thinking tactics ahead, but rather tries to find fanciful ways of shoehorning 'all the good players' in the same XI, leading to weird stuff like uncovering the 4-diamond-2 20 years after it was a thing at top level.
3) When did I say that Xavi's approach is top-notch? I am trashing him day in day out, you prob don't follow.
But he does at least one thing right since he arrived: he beats Madrid most often than not/
Let's hope he pulls a voodoo again on Madrid
