Quote Originally Posted by atimforlife View Post
just reading through this thread & the team i face tomorrow uses a formation that throws a part of this 'illegal' theory out the window.
he has won 4 of his first 5 games whilst dominating possession, so i'll need to devise a counter lol
here's a peek......
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Look at those matches and see whether he used this formation during the matches. It's rare, but some teams will go to the trouble of setting an illegal formation between matches to throw off opponents, or even start matches with an illegal formation and switching formations immediately after kickoff. He cannot dominate possession with that formation, he will be stuck with 20%. If his possession in those matches is not 20%, then he must have switched formations right after kickoff, you will still see the illegal formation he started with.