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Total Football Journeyman: Creating My 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 Hybrid

Total Football Journeyman: Creating My 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 Hybrid

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The following tactical experiment drew inspiration from many sources. It would not be Total Football without its tactical holy grail of course. Ajax’ original 4-3-3 with Johan Cruyff centering the attack and controlling the whole formation from his iconic False 9 position. Then came the next natural evolution of this formula with Pep Guardiola’s Barca and the talismanic rise of its young Argentinian star. Finally, recently we witnessed an emergence of a renewed Total Football system at Ajax under it’s…

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Using different formations in FM22 to get the edge

Using different formations in FM22 to get the edge

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The manager of the 1978 World Cup-winning Argentina side, César Luis Menotti, once famously said: “4-2-3-1, 4-3-3, 5-3-2… football has three mysteries, space, time and guile; the rest are phone numbers”. Menotti is, in many ways, a romantic; however, it seems that in his thinking he failed to realise (or to properly acknowledge) that one of those mysteries is very much tied to what he calls “phone numbers”. Tactics (more specifically, formations) are the tools a manager has to manipulate…

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