Rafa and Mourinho Love It. Now World Cup Teams Succeed With It.
Liverpool employed it throughout much of Rafa Benitez’s reign at the club and Jose Mourinho’s Inter Milan won the Champions League with it. Now, World Cup teams are finding success by employing 2 holding midfielders in a 4-5-1 / 4-3-3 formation, or variations of it such as 4-2-3-1.
Spain, Holland, Germany, Ghana, Argentina and Brazil to name a few – are all teams that have made it through to the late stages of the World Cup, with similar line-ups.
Looks like the days of 4-4-2 are numbered… maybe that’s why we no longer find glorious “strike partnerships” of the past such as Romario-Bebeto, Sutton-Shearer and Cole-Yorke?
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