It was the diamond but with McSheffrey playing it as he did last season rather than how he has this year thus far. Instead of sticking to the central area, he worked either flank and made forward runs so that he was really like a 3rd striker most of the time. Equally Sammy was more advanced than usual in the diamond. It was somewhere between the diamond and 443..a "diamond +1", if you will, in that the base and hole role were shifted one-up the pitch. It worked.