OK, what if Crawley play 451? Giving them an extra couple of men in the middle of the park? Bear in mind we have been using 352 for a while how easy do you think it would be to switch to a 433, allowing them to play to level which would give us a chance of beating another team?
I don't think it would be easy at all, at least playing 433 we are used to having 3 in centre midfield. That's where it fell down last week, present on played 4231 so matched us in midfield, pushed their wide players up pinning our wingbacks back, and leaving out 3 centre backs marking 1 player!!
Having thought about the 352 formation, neither reda, Willis or Webster can particularly step up into midfield when needed and carry the ball out. Hines looks like he can to that, I wonder whether it would work better with Clarke dropping back to centre back too? Then you'd have 2 players capable of stepping up and building. From the back when needed. Play phillips on the right. Just a though if Pressley wants to continue with that formation.
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