Originally Posted by
Rob Hampton
Hey chaps,
I've just joined this forum purely to get an answer to one mystery that I haven't solved on my route to club level 52.
How the heck do you make a 442 actually work.
It is my fave real life formation, but I've never got it to work on this game, so I always end up changing to something else.
Recently I've seen many teams win leagues and cups, hardly losing a game with a flat 442. So there must be certain orders that work that I'm just missing.
What orders do people find work with a flat 442?
Thanks
Rob
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Maybe because Mourinho has made 4-4-2 his b1tch, and TE is keeping to his ideals?
Look, if I have a triangle in midfield – Claude Makélélé behind and two others just in front – I will always have an advantage against a pure 4–4–2 where the central midfielders are side by side. That's because I will always have an extra man. It starts with Makélélé, who is between the lines. If nobody comes to him he can see the whole pitch and has time. If he gets closed down it means one of the two other central midfielders is open. If they are closed down and the other team's wingers come inside to help, it means there is space now for us on the flank, either for our own wingers or for our full-backs. There is nothing a pure 4–4–2 can do to stop things.