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The midfield has struggled because Slots changes broke down a lot of the automation and on pitch relationships and positioning off one another through high quality pressing and counter pressing
Obviously a midfield 3 is better for pressing and a lot harder to play through or around the sides of, when one of the mids was forward the full back used to come alongside the two mids to make a 3
Or two mids would be ahead of the 6 and both full backs forward often alongside the 2
The 433 readily changes to become numerous other formations in where the 4231 doesn’t as easily or to as many so seamlessly