Also, it isn't a 4231 CCTV also, because it suits you to, you're allowing for the distortion of player positions who move up and down the pitch a lot with Trent and Robbo - You are not making this allowance for Diaz who moves up and down the pitch a lot also, and because he tracks back deeper than the others, it his putting his true position as deeper than he was - The ZZ role was a true 10 centre, roaming left and right, we don't have a player playing that position and certainly not any of our midfielders, the closest player we have to playing that position is our No9, always
You continually try and make our shape into something it isn't and make comparisons to other sides that have players operating in very traditional positions that are actually playing a 4231
Mo being advanced further forward on our right doesn't make him a 1 in a 4231 and also as detailed the positions of Diaz who is playing equally as far forward as Mo in a lot of our attacking phases now as Mane used to is distorted because of how much he gets up and down- as you rightly point out for Trent and Robbo, but omit for Diaz as it suits how you want to see it
Chelsea were 442 for good periods of that game too - Again how the average positions pan out as some players get up and down and around the pitch more is misleading - It's only really accurate for games like Palace v City for example, because Palace stat in their shape and defend the same way the entire game, their positions are almost all true - Chelsea actually went through numerous formations in spells of the match as they often do
In fact, except for park the bus teams, for the purposes of looking at how they set up to stop a more attacking side and specific players in that side, average player positions don't give an accurate representation of actually player positions for most games, because of the distortion
Last edited by Nineteenx; 17th May 2022 at 07:44 AM.
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