[Albion] Today's formation (s)

[giveusfalmerplease]

We got the right result in the end but some very strange formations that I think even confused the players.
We started 442 (or 4411 with fergy just behind welbs) but often found AliMac as our most forward player.
Lamptey was back to his old self switching from defence to wing but this left us 3 exposed at the back and hence the close shaves from Sala.
After welbs was subbed I would have expected fergs to push forward in a 4321 but it seemed for most of the second half he played central midfield with March, AliMac and Mitoma all further up the pitch?
Do you recon this might be DeZs attempt to accommodate the rapidly improving Fergs without dropping Welbs? or maybe a one-off due to Caicedo absense?
Finally we had the Mitoma and Estupinan switcheroo scenario. Sometimes Mit ran forward to receive the ball from EST and sometimes Mit held the ball up, let Estupinan run past him and then stayed in midfield. Maybe this is a new dynamic to DeZerbiBall - job share
All in all a great result that clearly confused Liverpool as much as it confused me, lol

 

[Perkino]

I was equally surprised by the starting line up and our dropping a CM to play 2 CF's. I had hoped to see Gilmour from the start, I thought his introduction changed the game

 

[Doonhamer7]

It was interesting - in the first half at times it was 4-2-2-(Ferguson and Welbeck)-2 (Mitoma and March). There was a square in the middle! Maybe that was to try and drag there centre backs out of place thus giving space to Mitoma and March

 

[Littlemo]

I was equally surprised by the starting line up and our dropping a CM to play 2 CF's. I had hoped to see Gilmour from the start, I thought his introduction changed the game

Yeah, agree with this.

 

[zefarelly]

Quite often, as in the previous game we played a blatantly obvious 2-4-4

Testicolos Grande

 

[Weststander]

IMHO it didn’t really work, in that Welbeck and Ferguson weren’t a nightmare for defenders or effective over the entire course of the game. It was a much tighter affair. Konate had time to help TAA for example.

I love 5 in midfield.

RDZ’s hand was forced I feel by Caicedo’s actions. Without that, it would’ve more of the winning same.

 

[studio150]

Always good to have a plan B,C,D....

 

[Machiavelli]

It was interesting - in the first half at times it was 4-2-2-(Ferguson and Welbeck)-2 (Mitoma and March). There was a square in the middle! Maybe that was to try and drag there centre backs out of place thus giving space to Mitoma and March

That's how I saw it too

 

[Sirnormangall]

We got the right result in the end but some very strange formations that I think even confused the players.
We started 442 (or 4411 with fergy just behind welbs) but often found AliMac as our most forward player.
Lamptey was back to his old self switching from defence to wing but this left us 3 exposed at the back and hence the close shaves from Sala.
After welbs was subbed I would have expected fergs to push forward in a 4321 but it seemed for most of the second half he played central midfield with March, AliMac and Mitoma all further up the pitch?
Do you recon this might be DeZs attempt to accommodate the rapidly improving Fergs without dropping Welbs? or maybe a one-off due to Caicedo absense?
Finally we had the Mitoma and Estupinan switcheroo scenario. Sometimes Mit ran forward to receive the ball from EST and sometimes Mit held the ball up, let Estupinan run past him and then stayed in midfield. Maybe this is a new dynamic to DeZerbiBall - job share
All in all a great result that clearly confused Liverpool as much as it confused me, lol

I feel that having a fluid and unpredictable formation is what makes us difficult to play against