re: Staying ahead of the curve on tactics

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4-2-3-1

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How quickly this became popular and then dropped off is pretty fascinating to me

I know the traditional creative, attacking midfielder who’s not willing to put in defensive work is a thing of the past, but it still seems like more teams go with either a 4-3-3 instead or a 4-4-1-1 or something similar with a support striker instead.

I guess the differences are pretty minimal too seeing as how the formation can be fluid and use similar principles in how teams attack, but gone are the days of Mesut Ozil at the 10 and Miraslav Klose at the 9

I could be completely off base too because I’m not as adept tactically as y’all