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Shangalang pursued a Defensive Counterattacking strategy for the whole season. The default formation was 4-4-2 down both flanks but injuries and suspensions occasionally required changing to a 3-5-2 Mixed/Flanks or a 3-1-4-2 Mixed/Middle.

The assumption in playing defensively on the counterattack was that midfielders would be required to defend (no sh.. Sherlock ) and attackers should be fast - so skills allocation broadly followed roughly ------





The strategy was just as effectiive against lower quality sides: highest score was 10-0 and 132 goals in all comps was not bad for a team ranked, by quality, in the lower half of the league.

A few things that I found when watching Shangalang and playing friendlies against them which seemed to point towards 'that teams counter-attacking" were, generally:

Shangalangs possession increased the more attacking the opposition;
Shangalang got more corners than would be expected;
Shangalang got fewer Shots on Target than expected v same/lower quality sides; but
The ratio of Total Shots to Shots on Target was high.

So these are what I now use when playing the Buffs as a yardstick of wheher opponents counter-attack.

Ofc none of this is very scientific. Just thought I'd share.

PS: The 2 sides that contested the CL Final were the 2 qualifiers from Shangalang's group.