Comments on: What Soccer Formation is Best

By: M

Sun, 30 May 2010 05:24:49 +0000

FORMATIONS IS THE LAST THING I CARE ABOUT AS MY PRIORITY IS THE PLAYERS
BECAUSE PLAYERS MAKE DEFFERENCE NOT FORMATION
GOOD LUCK

By: Coach Matt

Coach Matt — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:11:59 +0000

I coach highschool boys and we play a 4-4-2 formation. With the 2 center mids we play one as an offensive mid and one as a defensive mid. My offensive mid has a great touch and field vision, and my defensive mid is very aggravating to the oppossing forwards with a good touch on the ball also. This is something new we are trying with that offensive and defensive mid formation. We used to play with a sweeper and/or stopper, but have gotten a way from that since it mostly made that sweeper obsolete in lot of plays where he should have been in it. Anyone else use this 4-4-2 formation I am planning on using?

By: Sam Imnottellingmylastname

Sam Imnottellingmylastname — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:38:34 +0000

Ya sorry about my name and my email. Ok i thought of a formation that may have been used, but i havent ever heard of it being used. 3-2-3-1-1. Three backs, two defensive midfielders, three midfielders, one attacking midfielder, and one lone striker. I want to focus on the attacking and defensive midfielders.

The two defensive just cover space when attacking. They attack according to the number of opposing strikers. They eliminate that large space in the between midfield and the 18. The attacking midfielder does the opposite: covers space for when his team is defending. He gets open for the ball when his defense gets it. If the opposing team defends with 4 or 5, he stays up to help the striker, and another midfielder moves into his spot.

I had worked on an unused formation for a few years, and i came up with this. I showed it to my coach, we gave it a shot, and it worked. Thanks.

By: Zsolt Nemeth

Zsolt Nemeth — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:55:26 +0000

It depend of age of players.

By: john buers aduogo

john buers aduogo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:44:10 +0000

I usually start by using 3-5-2 to identify player’s suitable positions. I coach school girls aged between 13 and 18. To most of my players i’m the first soccer coach they are meeting in their life. This formation therefore gives me an opportunity to identify a potential sweeper, stopper, wingers/fullbacks, defensive midfielders, attacking midfielders, and strikers. At the moment I ended up playing 3-4-3 since I have 3 good strikers of whom 2 can fall behind. From 3-5-2 I therefore switched 1 midfielder into an attacker and restricted 2 midfielder to strictly holding midfielders. The taem changes in most cases by reverting to 3-5-2 during a game through substitution(s).

By: Nevada

Nevada — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:17:40 +0000

PLay a version of a 4-4-2 where i have 2 holding midfielders and two attacking midfielders,this works very well when u have 2 fit full backs who love to go forward and the success with my under 19 team has been great

By: Dion

Dion — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:02:45 +0000

4-3-3 with either 2 def mid or 2 off mid

By: Iain

Iain — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:09:15 +0000

4-4-2.

By: Bob Akers

Bob Akers — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:30:16 +0000

I coach U14 boys and high school girls.We play a few systems based around the 4-4-2. We often use a sweeper in a 1-3-3-1-2 deployment. Late in a game and in need of more attack we have used a 3-4-3. I have also changed to two attacking mids and a lone striker due to player health issues.

I have used the 4-3-3 in the past and like that system with the right players.

If players understand and like a system I stick with it IF THE CAN PLAY WITHIN THE SYSTEM