A Balanced 4-4-2 formation

Insider said:
Back to this again.
There's so much rubbish talked about 3 at the back beyond obsessive for one poster in particular.
Our CBs wouldn't suddenly become creative if there was only 2 of them, Norburn wouldn't suddenly turn into Kevin De Bryune. The players need the same skill set whatever the formation.
It's not how we set up but how way we play.
The theory of playing the ball across the back 3/4/5 is to draw the opposition into a press, drag them up pitch and exploit the space they leave behind them. Peterborough x2 gave us a lesson in how to do it at Bloomfield Rd. The downside is that League 1 defenders sometimes lack the skill set to do that consistently and that's why we beat Posh away with a our press being more effective than their possession.
We just dwell on the ball far too long and that's why we are ineffective when we dominate the possession. (Look at the stats thread)
If the opposition take the game to us they create the space for us that we try to generate by "me to you" from Penny to Eky to Casey.
We are then better able to use the skills of Dembele to exploit it.
I'm not supporting Critch and his stubbornness it just won't resolve anything by playing a different formation.
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Thank you. If anything, having two centre halves would see us concede more.
 
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