we are built to play 4-4-1-1

[foxes21]

Title says it all. Our squad and all our signings were made with 4-4-1-1 in mind. 3 at the back didnt work and 3 in midfield leaves us so defensive with little threat down the middle. Sign a CB and maybe another winger. When Mahrez & Slimani get back they should be the front two.

 

Kasper

Simpson, Morgan, Huth, Fuchs

Albrighton, Drinkwater, Ndidi, Gray

Mahrez

Slimani

 

That's our best team in my opinion.

[Chico1958]

On the other side

 

That wasn't our best team performance today

 

But there's always the next game to look forward to

[Koke]

4-2-3-1 worked well against West Ham.

[Izzy]

Fvck formations. I'd just be happy if we could string two passes together at the moment to be honest....

[matty98]

We've been poor all season regardless of formation. Style of play is the problem imo

[Koke]

3 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

Fvck formations. I'd just be happy if we could string two passes together at the moment to be honest....

 

We can't and haven't been able to for 18 months. 

 

We need to transition into a more possession based team in the summer

 

[foxes21]

1 minute ago, matty98 said:

We've been poor all season regardless of formation. Style of play is the problem imo

good point in regards to style of play. We seemed to play a quick passing game against west ham, with this formation. Well in the first half anyway.

[AyewJoking]

the set up today wasnt so bad but the players totally wimped out.

 

if they all pulled their fingers out we'd have at least given chelsea a game.

 

one step forwards, two steps back.

[Guest Lako42]

We were capable of giving them a game, for 10 minutes.

 

It was poor today but people complaining about formation are probably going to be the same ones who wanted us to get rid of 442 (4411)

[Fox92]

One up front? No thanks.

[dayday]

Our tactic is simple, when we get the ball hit it long, doesn't matter where just long.

[Ted Maul]

Behave. Seen too many 3 goal away defeats to agree with you there, mate.

[ZeGuy]

Wait until Slim and Mahrez are back from the AFCON. With Ndidi and Mendy alongside with DD (who will hopefully turn up as well, because he quite looked shit since his injury) it will be a whole other story. Problem how much can we last without them? Above all will be any CB signed before the end of january?

[foxes_rule1978]

57 minutes ago, Koke said:

4-2-3-1 worked well against West Ham.

Slimani makes that work, vardy isn't a lone striker 

[yorkie1999]

The only thing we are good at is going at teams, when we sit back at the start we are shit

[foxes_rule1978]

Just now, yorkie1999 said:

The only thing we are good at is going at teams, when we sit back at the start we are shit

Absolutely... we should play to our strengths that is what we did last season, we don't actually have the defence to play the style we are trying this season. 

[yorkie1999]

Just now, foxes_rule1978 said:

Absolutely... we should play to our strengths that is what we did last season, we don't actually have the defence to play the style we are trying this season. 

Exactly, Huth and Morgan are not really blessed with fantastic ball skills

[chicagofox]

And I thought the problem all season was that we couldn't be successful with 4 in midfield.  Anyone within a mile of a keyboard was saying how we had to play with 3 in the middle?

 

 

[kingfox]

I wouldn't go back to four in midfield, hardly worked at all this season apart from a few home games.

 

4-2-3-1 against West Ham, we looked more fluid but as @foxes_rule1978 said, Slimani made that formation work along with Mahrez.

 

4-3-1-2 against Middlesbrough worked on the defensive side of things, clean sheet, midfield worked incredibly hard, but I didn't expect anything with Ulloa & Okazaki up front, different personnel could make that formation work.

 

4-3-3 against Everton ended up working in time, Ndidi & Mendy performed well in that game, just depends how you set out, go into a defensive shell like we've seen before when we've played that formation it ends up being 4-5-1 and we go all negative.

 

With Slimani & Mahrez away I'd stick with 4-3-1-2 or 4-3-3. Start Gray in behind Vardy & Okazaki in a 4-3-1-2 formation or sign a number 10. 4-3-3 go with Gray - Vardy - Musa.

[Mark]

The problem with 4-4-1-1/4-2-3-1 the only player who can play in the hole is Okazaki, can't believe we haven't bothered to strengthen this area considering we've played 4-4-1-1 for around 5 years but only had Nugent and Okazaki capable of fulfilling that role.

 

Mahrez couldn't hack it in the last few games we tried him there, he's not strong enough for a start and the positional sense for such a position isn't there, he isn't going to learn a new role half way through the season.

[SecretPro]

1 hour ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

Fvck formations. I'd just be happy if we could string two passes together at the moment to be honest....

This really. We have two players who have more than an ounce of creativity in the whole squad, one of them starts on the bench. Formation means shit until this is rectified.

[sdb]

352 could work brilliantly with Slimani in the side, and against mediocre opposition. With 2 lightweight strikers against the best team in the league...probably not a great shout. 

[sdb]

3 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

This really. We have two players who have more than an ounce of creativity in the whole squad, one of them starts on the bench. Formation means shit until this is rectified.

 

Also worth pointing out that formation doesn't mean everything. There needs to be a system in place for all phases of play, scorelines, set pieces or whatever. Everybody knew their roles last season. Doesn't look as convincing this time around. 

[sm1]

I think we have the players to play a multitude of different systems like Kingfox has outlined. Our problem is our pressing and work rate, especially Vardy. We are way off in that respect from last season. Without that it doesn't matter what system we play.

[Slim Dog]

Any formation without 4 at the back should be in the bin. 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 are my picks.