442 dead?

[samtheseagull]

just started the new sunday league season and have noticed none of the teams we have played are using the 442 formation. anyone else think it may get used less and less? big teams like chelsea, arsenal and barca dont use it to great affect.

 

[ali jenkins]

I think Sunday League managers see it on Match of the day and try to be creative and copy the formations on a Sunday.

4-4-2 is the best formation for that level, maybe mixing it up with an extra striker or midfielder every now and then, but the basics should stay the same

 

[hola gus]

i should imagine 70% of sunday pub sides and saturday village sides DO use 4-4-2 but agree it is becoming less popular

 

[olliwarne]

yes ...i would say it is dead too.
in 4-5-1 the formation changes when defending and when attacking usually (it does in my team)
when defending you play with 5 defenders in a 5-3-1system and quickly change to 3-5-2 when attacking ...thats how we play it anyways

 

[samtheseagull]

I think Sunday League managers see it on Match of the day and try to be creative and copy the formations on a Sunday.

4-4-2 is the best formation for that level, maybe mixing it up with an extra striker or midfielder every now and then, but the basics should stay the same

sunday league footy is usally won is the middle of the park. if you have got 2 or 3 good centre mids, its easy to win.

 

[ali jenkins]

442 was the formation that people grow up with and is the easiest wa to play when you get older.

If you have a team of players that have a bit of Football intellegence then you can play different formations but the majority of pub sides dont. (thats not disrespect to them)

 

[jordanseagull]

I thought this was a thread about a disaster, and 442 people had died!

 

[samtheseagull]

442 was the formation that people grow up with and is the easiest wa to play when you get older.

If you have a team of players that have a bit of Football intellegence then you can play different formations but the majority of pub sides dont. (thats not disrespect to them)

agree in a way. teams like barca and arsenal play such good football with 433 i can just seeing the "old" 442 fading out.

 

[Hunting 784561]

When I saw the thread title, I thought a plane had crashed

 

[Hunting 784561]

I thought this was a thread about a disaster, and 442 people had died!

oops

 

[ali jenkins]

agree in a way. teams like barca and arsenal play such good football with 433 i can just seeing the "old" 442 fading out.

The likes of Fabregas and Messi are slightly better then the average Sunday League Footballer, infact there better than the best Sunday League Footballers!

 

[Perkino]

It's not dead, but you need decent central midfielders to use it

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

I thought it was about magazine sales dropping

 

[redneb]

I thought this was a thread about a disaster, and 442 people had died!

Me too. FFS

 

[Scotty Mac]

how can you tell?! normally i struggle to concentrate on walking on a sunday morning, let alone on what formation people are in!

 

[Laughing Gravy]

Just a quick question.

How many divisions are there now.
I think there use to be 15 when i first played in the late 70s. I dont think there is anywhere near that many now. Almost every pub had a side meeting up at 0930 of a Sunday morning.

 

[Gwylan]

I thought it was about magazine sales dropping

So did I

I remember a game where our manager had the bright idea of playing a sort of sweeper in front of the defence (I think Germany used the formation at the time), a bit like a holding midfielder but further back. I got moved out of defence to play there and we were three down by half-time.

I do think players of that sort of level so struggle with subtlety and strange formations - 442 is as much as they can cope with.