| 11-Jul-07 10:12
riostrioff | | | very offensive formation
Johan Cruijff had success with it when he was coaching Barcelona. won several LFP titels and an european cup (CL) |
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| 08-Jun-08 12:57
guest 84.13.83.242 | | | The number of short passes that can be made with this formation make it great for posssesion footbal.
The wing backs or wide receivers must have great stamina and pace in order to utilise the flanks effectively. | | | |
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| 17-Feb-09 03:27
guest 190.20.82.158 | | | This formation is used by Marcelo Bielsa since 1991, in Newell s. Also in the Argentina team when he was coach in this team.
But, one midfielder its used function as 10.
Is very offensive, whit great pressing in the oposite field. | | | |
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| 04-Jun-09 11:18
guest 93.198.190.81 | | | With a defensiv version of the 3-4-3 (left- and right-backs on the position of the LM and RM and more defensiv CMs) Bayern Munich won the Champions Leage 2001 and Brasil won the world-championship 2002. | | | |
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| 09-Feb-10 21:12
playmaker13
 Dubai | | | press, take possession and attack.
but its difficult to have a suitable wings for this formation. Nowadays, its rare to have wings with good attacking and defending skills, like Zerkov.
you need at least 4 wings in the team with such a mentality, where can you find them ?! | | | |
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| 28-Apr-10 20:17
guest 65.184.37.86 | | | South Korea WC 2002 - Guus Hiddink | | | |
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| 17-Jul-10 12:04
Steve
 Bracknell Forest | | | I m sure this formation will start being used by more clubs around the world after Bielsa used it so effectively with Chile in the 2010 World Cup.
You don t need 4 wingers necessarily, you can have 2 wingers and 2 wing-backs who play very high up the pitch, but still know how to defend.
Brazil, for example, could play Maicon and Michel Bastos in the midfield two, with Kaka and Robinho in front of them, cutting inside.
The most important thing with this formation is the defensive positioning of your players. | | | |
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| 20-Dec-10 14:54
tactic-zone
 Ramnicu Valcea | | | is a system in which the side midfielders must have a special effort capacity and speed. with three defenders who remain always in the back, allowing the side players to push the game very high in the opponent pitch and to push through the three strikers in front on opposing defenders. defensive, the team can transform into 5-4-1. mobility and pace are key words in this system. rapid bucharest played like this when it reach the uefa quarter final in 2006. | | | |
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| 25-Oct-11 21:52
Pablo
 Illinois | | | This is not the Cruyff 3-4-3. The Cruyff version is a diamond midfield: one defensive pivot, one offensive pivot, and to center mids that offer support to keep possesion. The wide CBs have to be commpact in defense and wide in offense, so as to utilize width better when we have the ball. | | | |
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| 27-Mar-12 12:25
Tej
 | | | Diamond version has more offensive power with more diagonal passing option than flat version. | | | |
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| 24-Nov-12 05:01
Soccer Geek
| | | But diamond shape doesnot have as much width as flat one does so this is a little better when not in possession. Its good for high pressure attacking football. Better if you have a alround target man upfront who is provided ammunition by 4-wingers. | | | |
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| 19-May-13 03:10
dan sutton
Swansea | | | Switched to this system from 4-3-3 with my U13 s halfway thru this season, and fair play the boys just got it, the pressure you apply on teams in their own half is immense - they have no outlet. I have one CM who is industrious - works and works, my other CM is more skillful and creative. The key for me tho is the wing-backs - it is such a hard job to be bombing up and down the wing all game but my two wing backs are small,tenacious and full of energy and they can defend. Would really recommend this system for kids as it teaches them to play football - you HAVE to pass the ball well and create passing angles for this system to work. | | | |
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| 09-Sep-14 16:49
guest 36.253.67.159 | | | Instead of a Traditional No.9 I tweak this formation with a False 9 and everything else was like The Same .
While the False nine pulls the centrebacks out of position and the inverted wingforwards rather than making crosses make incisive run into the space with wingbacks covering for them.
An offensive and defensive combo of Central midfielders and 3-flat centrebacks.
Also with false 9 you are able to have better connection between the forwards and central midfielder than that with an out-and-out striker.
This way you can have better possession and be little more effective than traditional 3-4-3. | | | |
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| 02-Jul-18 20:08
guest 83.177.99.183 | | | We see alot of the 3-4-3 this World Cup around. Argentina, Poland, Belgium, Mexico... it s definitely a come back. Even few other Nations played a variation of the formation (like Russia that played a 5-4-1 but when on counter, it morphs right into 3-4-3).
Coaches found (or should I say, refound) benefits of this formation… great for possession for slow build up but equally as good for fast counter attack -- in possession, it morphs into 3-2-5 for a very attacking formation (Argentina, Belgium), on another hand it s great for counter attacking football as well, where it quickly morphs from 5-4-1 into a proper 3-4-3 (Mexico, Russia). In either case it s very attacking formation and capable of laying waste to the opponent s team.
The opponents seems to prefer packing the defense with a low defense line into tight compact two banks against 3-4-3, but this promotes a very dull negative football (which we ve seen in many of these games).
I can t say it has been successful with a straight face, Argentina lost a colossal 3-0 to Croatia, Poland also lost against arguably a weaker opponent to 3 goals while utilising this formation as well. Mexico lost to Brazil while playing a 4-4-1-1, and at the time of writing this, Belgium was playing a 3-4-3 and was loosing against Japan.
So my question is, is this only a stint of nostalgia, or is this a relatively new trend of 3-4-3? There seems to be more and more coaches adopting it… it seems it hasn t enjoyed the success yet, but it seems to have a place in modern football. | | | |
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