Let start a 442 comeback

[Fish]

Can we get a firkin manager in to play 442 . Let start a firkin revolution. 

[CWLCFC]

Cheers mate, i’ll let them know

[Chelmofox]

3-1-1-1-1-1-2 for me

[ParkerPen]

we havent got one forward let alone 2

[Finnegan]

Is it 1993?

[Chelmofox]

5 minutes ago, Fish said:

Can we get a firkin manager in to play 442 . Let start a firkin revolution. 

Firkin pubs all closed sadly.

[Muzzy_no7]

[Stadt]

There’s not anybody I want to drop to accommodate Ayew or Carranza. 
 

The one occasion we did play two up top those two slow, “hold up” merchants played together and it was predictably awful.

[fox_up_north]

2 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

3-1-1-1-1-1-2 for me

Birmingham have already claimed the chimney stacks mate

[Out Foxed]

3 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

Firkin pubs all closed sadly.

got fuzzock'd

[VLC86]

I’ve never heard the words GERRIITTTT FORWARDS more clearly.

[cityfanlee23]

We need a formation that plays to our strengths on the pitch. 
2-1-2-0

[tinpot_fox]

3 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

3-1-1-1-1-1-2 for me

AB-JV-AB-JB-HW-JV-HW-JV-HW-JJ-PD

[ceebeefox]

3 hours ago, Fish said:

Can we get a firkin manager in to play 442 . Let start a firkin revolution. 

If only! It will come back, but only when Pep tells them to.

Then he’ll be the messiah all over again.

[Dahnsouff]

We are way too hip to be caught wearing that out inn public.

[AjcW]

6 hours ago, Fish said:

Can we get a firkin manager in to play 442 . Let start a firkin revolution. 

Six hours later and we’re playing 4-3-2…..

[Sinnoh]

We could play as a 1 - 1 - 8 against a stray cat and still lose with these dingdongs in the team.

[Chrysalis]

4-4-2 with mandatory dribble forward, forward pass, or hoof to striker after 5 passes.

[Molson Canadian]

what's wrong with just lumping it and crossing it into the box and having a huge brickhouse of a forward?

[funkyrobot]

Just now, Molson Canadian said:

what's wrong with just lumping it and crossing it into the box and having a huge brickhouse of a forward?

One problem is the lack of a huge brickhouse of a forward. 

[Sly]

6 hours ago, funkyrobot said:

One problem is the lack of a huge brickhouse of a forward. 

Harry Souttar 

[Sly]

Joking aside though, with modern tactics, inverted fullbacks and pressing intensity, the midfield two get overrun too easily. 
 

Unless you have two hard working forwards and wingers, which we don’t, then you’re screwed. Even then to do it for 90 minutes would be a rough ask.

 

We’d need two strikers also that have skill sets that aren’t typically taught now, as it’s almost a little and large combination that the classic 4-4-2 adopted. Most players are trained today to be part of the team, dropping deep when in possession than press defenders when not etc, rather than play a single position like a poacher or target man. 
 

The players we have within the squad currently are more specialist possession based players, like Winks, Vestergaard, Ricardo, Soumare etc. They’d get overrun in a 4-4-2 and we just don’t have the high energy players to drop in. We’ve got to work with the tools we’ve got unfortunately.

 

We would also need wingers that drive on the outside and cross the ball in, as that drags defenders wider for the two forwards. Our wingers are almost exclusively inverted wingers, so like to come inside the fullback and drive at goal. 
 

To play this system, I think we’d need two wingers, two forwards, two centre mids and we are fixated on this style of football now, we’d need a major squad overhaul, which we just aren’t going to do.

 

If we wanted to play it with our current squad, we’d be looking at a team of:

 

GK - Begovic / Stolarkzyk 

LB - Kristiansen

CB - Okoli

CB - Souttar

RB - Faes

LM - Fatawu

CM - Winks

CM - Choudhury

RM - James

ST - Daka
ST - Mavididi

 

Whoever tolls that team out is getting pelters 

 

[Foxin_Mad]

To be honest I’d take Long ball, Ian Ormondroyd and Steve Walsh up front than this shite tippy tappy 65% possession nothing football served up by this clueless manager. Stick Vestergaurd up front! Can’t be any worse than the other options or than he is at defending 

Edited 26 November 2025 by Foxin_Mad

[djskydiver]

Might as well go 10 up front, got to be better than what we’re currently doing. 

[Jordan]

4-4-2

big man little man, can’t go wrong

Cheers bob