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Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 29: 5-2-3 meets Player Roles

After 28 formations, and 308 players used, we've reached the final episode of our 9th season in the existence of The Soccermanager Blog... 😌Today ends what has been quite a journey so far... From the innovation of the '3 at the backs', the revolution of the '4 at the backs', to the unconvention of the … Continue reading Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 29: 5-2-3 meets Player Roles →

Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 23: 4-3-2-1 meets Player Roles

These relatives keep showing up...Here we have yet again a formation that is in close comparison to another. The 4-3-2-1 is a formation that has a lot of close proximities compared to the previous two formations that we've just went through. It is another formation that focuses on central progression of the ball in order … Continue reading Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 23: 4-3-2-1 meets Player Roles →

Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 22: 4-3-3B meets Player Roles

The S.M.B is indeed the gift that just keeps on giving! We complete our mini series look at the 'Big 4' formations consisting of what many believe are the 4 most popular formations within the entirety of soccermanager which are both variants of the 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3. Today, we end it off with yet another … Continue reading Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 22: 4-3-3B meets Player Roles →

Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 13: 4-3-1-2 meets Player Roles

Do you remember back in episode 11 when I mentioned that the 4-4-2C has a very close formational cousin? Well, this is the formation I was talking about! The 4-3-1-2 is another formation that plays in a sort of diamond midfield set up, albeit it has some different characteristics that make it quite the contrary … Continue reading Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 13: 4-3-1-2 meets Player Roles →

Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 12: 4-4-1-1 meets Player Roles

I mentioned back in episode 11 that the 4-4-2C was the second most popular 4-4-2 variant and I would want to believe that today's formation took high offense to that statement... The 4-4-1-1 is a very iconic formation that causes a lot of users (in real life) to think that they basically hit a formation … Continue reading Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 12: 4-4-1-1 meets Player Roles →

Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 10: 4-4-2B meets Player Roles

From one 4-4-2 variant straight into the next, I hope you're not getting bored (I mean, how could you?), cause we're about to go over quite a few different types of formations that you may not have known are all a by-product of the 4-4-2... We start off with the 4-4-2B. A formation that has … Continue reading Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 10: 4-4-2B meets Player Roles →

Season 9: FORMATION MATTERS MEETS PLAYER ROLES; EPISODE 9: 4-4-2A meets Player Roles

The moment you lot have been waiting for.... Welcome back to yet another glorious episode of the one... the only... Soccermanager blog!!!! 🎺 🎺 🎺 Today's episode is the beginning of our look into the VERY popular '4 at the back' formation series, and what a way to start off with arguably the queen of … Continue reading Season 9: FORMATION MATTERS MEETS PLAYER ROLES; EPISODE 9: 4-4-2A meets Player Roles →

Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 8: 3-3-4 meets Player Roles

We end our look at the '3 at the back' series with arguably one of the craziest formations within the entirety of SMW. The 3-3-4 is a formation that I personally believe one should never actually start a match of football with due to the unconventional elements of the formation. But, since it is one … Continue reading Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 8: 3-3-4 meets Player Roles →

Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 7: 3-2-2-2-1 meets Player Roles

In all my years of playing this game I could never understand why on earth anyone would ever try to use this formation. I honestly thought that it literally made no sense what's so ever. It's basically a fake copy of the 3-4-2-1 that causes unneccesssery holds within the middle area of the formation that … Continue reading Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 7: 3-2-2-2-1 meets Player Roles →