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The old chestnut - do you adapt your formation to account for theirs, or do you play to your own strengths? For me, always play to your strength's but naturally everyone has to be aware of what it means when we have the ball, and when we don't have the ball. One of the front 2 dropping in is a simple way of doing that when we don't have the ball. When we do have it, we need full-backs joining in to create extra bodies in the middle of the park. Other tactics when we don't have the ball is high pressing - getting the Boro back-line to kick-it long and by pass their numerical advantage, straight down the throat of CBs who can get us on the front foot again.. When we do have it, keeping it wide and switching it frequently so as to avoid the congestion in the middle of the park, but also creates stretch on their central 3, trying to cover both wings. All sounds so easy doesn't it!!??