Luckily for me, Denilson and substitute Laurent Charvet score two quickfire goals to salvage a point and our pride, but it is very apparent that Flo’s absence is going to kill us. The trip to Barnsley is normally a guarantee of 3 points but at 2-0 down with 15 minutes to go, I consider packing the whole thing in. After the match, Flo is ruled out for 6 weeks too.

He makes his debut at home to Leeds in a 3-1 win, Poyet twice and Mark Hughes from the bench. Who would have thought he would be so sought after? He’ll fit in nicely. Worryingly Eddie Newton is our only defensive midfielder, and as he’s now out for 6 weeks, I spend £3.3m on his replacement

Off to Anfield next, a further test of the formations credentials The first game of the season is at home to Spurs and should be a more accurate depiction of what we are.ĭear God, he’s found a formation that makes Tore Andre Flo unstoppable So instead I get the Brazilian Matt Le Tissier and future record transfer feeĪ 2-1 win over Man Utd in the Charity Shield gets us off to a good start, but Man Utd’s side is a shadow of what they will play week in, week out. With Bakayoko unavailable, Matt Le Tissier would be my next choice but he has a broken arm. Interesting, as Poyet meets the AMC criteria but Mark Hughes/Zola do not. (at leads having 1 at one of the positions). If a Player are only Left or right they will not perform they need to be center atacking midfields, if they are bout great. But who to be? Antonio suggested Chelsea…Ģ and 3 normal left and right defenders dont perform there they need to have at least one in defender midfield (check data base), or miedfield defenders with one at right (like gulit) or left (you understand what I am saying?) I asked Antonio if there was anything else I should know, but the gist was that it had worked very well for him in Spain and the attacking midfielders should have good positioning. The best tactic you say? Let’s put that to the test. So who do we have first?Ī gent by the name of Antonio contacted me via the comments section on the final Ajax blog: The barometer? Trying to beat Man Utd in the first season.

I stuck to my guns, 532 this, 3-1-3-3 blah, but what if I’m wrong? So, I opened the floor to Twitter, and over the next few weeks I’ll be trying out your formations and bringing you the results. Also, I don’t like when the top left changes to “custom formation.” But that’s just me being picky.Īnyway, in a twist of fate a few people tweeted me over the summer asking for my suggestions of the best formation. I’ve always naively felt they were better. We dabbled a bit in the Ajax save, but here on .uk it’s always been about the pre-loaded tactics. Up until now, we’ve barely discussed tactics.

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