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What are the advantages of playing with the 4-2-3-1 formation.what are the disadvantages?


Any Formation is at the mercy of 2 variables...


1) The STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES of the PLAYERS


2) The EXPERIENCE & SKILL of the COACH


Now the 4-2-3-1


* OK, take the 4-4-2 and pile the forwards.


* Move the wing mids up and call them wings. Of course, being wings they will have to have a defensive responsibility all the way back to mids of a 4-4-2 with overloaded forwards.


* Your back forward in the overload 4-4-2 becomes a centre-mid or a forward depending on how your team counters.


* Your team looks like a 4-4-2 even 4-3-3 when playing against one, or the other.


* When looking at it on its side with only an attack on one side, you would also see the 4-3-3.


* On attack both wings and forward are front of 4-3-3.


* Overlap of back to mid field is normal on one side at least.


* Holding at a 3-4-3 when trying for possession. These are variations of the original Dutch 3-4-3 and 4-3-3 formations. They have been around for a long time. Just seems that more teams are using them for longer periods today.


Because the disguise of the maneuver is completely lacking they call it a formation. Not hard to learn from a 4-4-2 with overloaded forwards though.


Converting from a 4-3-3 and drop the mids while the center-mid and wings feed to top forward is easy.


* Again a back or two fill in where needed.


* Hold while wings drop and centremid becomes the bottom forward again.


* Be aware of the habit of attacking the two mids on the inside while overlapping a back.


* Holding the centre instead of the other two is risky.


If you don’t like the 4-3-3 and its variations, then you wont like this. Your team would have to be a very disciplined unit to keep all the options working. Tough job.


The systems great strength is that it can transition from a supposed defensive formation 4-5-1 to an attacking formation 4-2-4 very quickly.


Remember the importance of the attacking midfield/withdrawn forward. This player has to be a great player so this mustn't be a weakness, but only if that player is not up to a very tough job do you replace.


The other issue is the discipline required for everyone to get box to box quickly.If the system is played well it is very effective and can cause defense problems and can be a good tool to defend your own goal.



Strengths - transition quick, can seem as if you have more than 11 players


Weakness - Needs an excellent focal player and all round good work ethic and discipline, only as good as its weakest link.


This can be a great attacking system. As a matter of fact, if not treated as an attacking system it has some problems. It has to be treated as possession and attacking even though it is on paper a more defensive formation.


When played to match the other teams attack on defense it has the same action as any other. It is the hold and change to the attack that requires the discipline to accomplish and with good shadow training can be easily accomplished. This is designed with the intention of constantly having numbers up. Numbers up in the area of the ball.However in men's play possession has to be there.


Simple launching of the ball by the other team has a detrimental effect. In other words the discipline of your team gets broken down because one long ball leads to another and then the whole possession aspect goes bust.

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