New formation?

[Thedelldays]

last season we generally played with either 2 sitting CM with the wide players moving around

or the diamond

 

generally, very attack minded

 

Nigel has been saying that we have been working very hard on a new formation...you would think (maybe) that this would be a 1 up front scenario as to be honest, we would be due a few pastings if we were as attacking every game like we were last season..

 

 

should be interesting.

 

I also think none of these formations will include out and out wingers...much like last season

[positivepete]

It will be a Barcelona style 4 3 3!

[Tokyo-Saint]

I think we will keep it very narrow, try to keep the ball and let the width come from the full backs.

[sotonjoe]

i think we will change our formation frequently.

[red&white56]

I think our formation will change depending on whether we're at home (4-4-2 or 4-3-3) or away (4-5-1)

[Minty]

A bit more from our Nige today on this 'third way', which it seems is perhaps a little more defensively minded:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19011746

 

"The positive thing we've got is we played two different ways last season and we were very successful with it.

 

"We kept very good possession of the football, and scored a lot of goals.

 

"What we're try to add is another dimension to the team with another way of playing so we can do exactly the same thing but with a good defensive structure, because when we step up now we're playing against world-class players who will punish you."

[The Kraken]

Makes a nice change from the Harry Redknapp "it's only about having good players" cobblers.