Decide the best formation before the match play the most important role in Football management games. Use right formation to expose enemy's weakness will increase our probability to win the match. Use different formation in every games will also help us to make rotations for our players.
Match Analysis Tools help us to analyze strength and weakness of each formation. With the data from MAT we can choose the best formation to exploit enemy's formtion weakness.
In this article 3-5-2 and 4-4-2 formation will be compared. All encounter between 3-5-2 and 4-4-2 formation from 06/07 and 07/08 season will be summerize. And we will use the average values to examine advantages and diasadvantages of each formation.
Match Statistics:
Total encounter: 18 games
3-5-2 wins :7
Draw :5
4-4-2 wins:6
Total possession
3-5-2 : 51.2 %
4-4-2: 48.8 %
total goals:
3-5-2: 35 goals
4-4-2: 28 goals
Possession:
3-5-2 possession in percent by zones
Enemy
|-----|------|------|
| 5,3 | 5,9 | 8,5 |19,7
|-----|------|------|
==|15,9=|=20,9=|=11,4=|48,1= centre line
|-----|------|------|
| 4,3 | 20,9 | 6,9 |32,2
|-----|------|------|
25,6 47,7 26,8
4-4-2 possession in percent by zones
Enemy
|-----|------|------|
| 7,4 | 7,2 | 6,3 |21
|-----|------|------|
==|=13==|=24,1=|=9,9==|47= centre line
|-----|------|------|
| 5,1 | 19,5 | 7,4 |32
|-----|------|------|
25,5 50,8 23,7
3-5-2 formation have slightly better possession in midfield area because they have more midfielder.
Ball Regains:
Own Half:
3-5-2: 42.6 %
4-4-2: 40.3%
Centre field:
3-5-2: 48.2%
4-4-2: 45.1 %
Enemy Half:
3-5-2: 9.2 %
4-4-2: 14.6 %
Both formation almost equal in attack and defense. To stregthen defesive capabilities in 3-5-2 formation, both RM and LM can be functioned as RWB and LWB in defending position.
4-4-2 formation have more regain ball in enemy own half, this because both of CM will stand in centre midfield area, and wait for rebound ball.
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