lazyfreak
Active Member
Boro used a 3-5-2 for a while last season and they were quite successful with it... beating Manure 4-1 at the Riverside being one of the highlights. So probably you can't really say that a 3-1-4-2 basically a 3-5-2 is unbalanced or doesn't work even if they used it for only a short period and ended up being inconsistant.kel varnsen said:burnsjed said:And you say that 3-1-4-2 has never worked as it is unbalanced, who actually plays it to prove that?
kind of interrupting your discussion here, but isn't this at least an indirect proof of the assertive claim? the fact that there aren't many(or any?) teams playing 3-1-4-1 does at least suggest that it doesn't work...
You may argue that there aren't any other teams using it and there aren't any using it right now. True... but I don't think its related to the fact that "it doesn't work," it could be that other teams are more comfortable using a different formation, mainly the 4-4-2.