And that’s probably where he’ll go wrong then. Not being as flexible. Peps moved from his favourite 4-3-3 and played a back 3 recently, gone back to a 4-2-3-1. All successfully. Your right though… he’ll stick to 4-3-3 and try and make it work however long that may take
I think the variations in and out of posession will happen similar to Pep. We’ve been doing it ourselves with one of the full backs playing inverted and joining the CDM.
But in terms of attack, I don’t see ETH ever deploying 2 strikers from the start. Managers are generally set in their ways and will live and die by their methods which isn’t a bad thing.
I personally have had a lot of confidence in the decisions Ten Hag has made to date. However, a few recent ones are confusing and I’m struggling to see how it’ll work such as the midfield setup.
However, I do also think we need to see how we look once Hojlund has been integrated as we will have a very different profile of striker at that point. A player who can bring others into the game much better than Rashford can. I think we will see more benefit to the team when our striker isn’t constantly returning the ball back to opposition and forcing multiple transitions upon our midfield.