In modern football, it's more fashionable to have at least three players operating in and around the centre of the pitch, leaving a two-man central midfield short of bodies.
The weakness of the 4-4-2 formation is the rigidity and amount of work expected of the two central midfield players. Often, these strikers compliment each other by having a different set of skills – for example a tall striker who is good in the air and a smaller, more agile forward who can feed off any knocked down balls.
What it results in is plenty of service for your two strikers, who should always be lurking in the box sniffing out a chance at goal. To help them, full-backs look to overlap to provide an extra attacking option. The wide midfielders are often skilful, with pace to burn and a deadly accurate cross. The two strikers, midfield pairing and full-back and wingers each need to have to have a telepathic understanding of their role on the pitch. Despite going out of fashion in recent years, 4-4-2 has enjoyed somewhat of a resurgence, mainly thanks to Leicester City in the Premier League and Atletico Madrid in La Liga. This is one of the oldest formations in football.
Here, we give a coach's guide to the most common, what you'll need to make a success of it, and an example of a team you could study to get it's best version. There are many formations and tactics being employed be various teams, with hundreds of subtle distinctions branching off from them. It's the job of the manager to mould the way a team plays, and you only have to take one look at the Elite end of the sport to see differences in the way team’s set-up and play football.
The great thing about football is there are a million different ways to play it.
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