Blog Pollin’: Choose Your Own Formation

There's been a lot of discussion lately about Liverpool's use of a three man defence in the past two matches, and so perhaps it's been easy to forget, but up until Stoke there was a clear preference for four defenders in a 4-3-3. There's room for both systems, of course, but over the course of a season a side will tend to have a primary system something that suits them best, and that they can use to impose their style of play on most opponents when either the level of the opponent and some special threat don't require a radical change of approach.

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