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Author: Jamie Birch🔥 Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/coaches-question-4
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 2It depends on how long you’ve worked with one or two formations. Twitter is ablaze with “formations don’t matter, principles do.” but that just isn’t true.The player starting positions are vastly different for 4-4-2 compared to 3-4-2-1 compared to 4-2-3-1.Starting positions dictate so much from compactness to rest defence to channel occupation in attack.For the above reasons, I’ve went for Tactical Discipline as you don’t want players to revert to the principles and starting positions that work for the previous formation(s)2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 2It depends on how long you’ve worked with one or two formations. Twitter is ablaze with “formations don’t matter, principles do.” but that just isn’t true.The player starting positions are vastly different for 4-4-2 compared to 3-4-2-1 compared to 4-2-3-1.Starting positions dictate so much from compactness to rest defence to channel occupation in attack.For the above reasons, I’ve went for Tactical Discipline as you don’t want players to revert to the principles and starting positions that work for the previous formation(s)2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 2It depends on how long you’ve worked with one or two formations. Twitter is ablaze with “formations don’t matter, principles do.” but that just isn’t true.The player starting positions are vastly different for 4-4-2 compared to 3-4-2-1 compared to 4-2-3-1.Starting positions dictate so much from compactness to rest defence to channel occupation in attack.For the above reasons, I’ve went for Tactical Discipline as you don’t want players to revert to the principles and starting positions that work for the previous formation(s)2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 2@Kevin Middleton agree completely. A position in a formation, whether spoken or not gives a player pre set roles and responsibilities. That changes with a different formation. Principles are extremely important, but the context of the formation makes them more powerful1Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Oct 2They’re all important really. But I went for tactical discipline. If they don’t follow the tactics and it goes wrong then it’s on them, if they do and it still goes wrong then it’s on your tactics/team selection.2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 2@Ross Whitehead great shout. Do you change formations often?1Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Oct 2@Jamie Birch We tried a few different formations during pre-season, but we’ve settled on one system now. We very occasionally change mid-game, but it rarely works.1Reply
Justin Shiltz
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Justin Shiltz • Oct 4Oliver Glasner: “The system? It must fit the players. There is too much discussion about the system. The system is not important. Habits are important, the patterns and how you want your players to behave on the pitch. That is much more important.”“In my career I have played every single system. got promoted in Austria with a 4-4-2, then we switched to a 3-4-3. In Wolfsburg, we reached the Champions League with a 4-2-3-1. In Frankfurt, they played with three at the back before and it fit the squ… See more4Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 4@Justin Shiltz great quote. Huge fan of his1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 4@Justin Shiltz One of my fav coaches.Thought they would struggle without Olise and Eze as the two 10’s but Sarr, Pino, and Kamada have done great filling in.Kamada is a player.0:272Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • Oct 7I went for player buy-in as unless you can communicate why you are doing it and how it helps them you won’t get very far. We played 1-4-4-2 but we were too easy to play through and didn’t score many goals so we changed to 1-4-3-3 with a CDM (1-4-1-2-3) which suited the kids we had and their attributes more and helped us in the middle (where we were getting played through) and with being more attacking. So with a different group with different attributes I’d see what would work given the attributes of the players.3Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 7@Stephen Kavanagh great points Stephen. Having that adaptability as a coach is really important as well 👍🏻0Reply