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Anyone ballsy enough to put bets on Wigan to beat Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal and Newcastle must have won a decent sum – even more if they were astute enough to make use of the sports betting sites here. Wigan’s success in the second half of last season had a noticeable starting point though: a switch to a 3-4-3 formation. The inevitable question is whether or not others will try to replicate Wigan. The three-man defences that were popular throughout the nineties disappeared as lone strikers became the norm, leaving too many spare men at the back while creating a shortfall elsewhere on the pitch. They popped up occasionally, mainly as defensive strategies, yet weren’t considered the viable standard gameplan they were previously. However, there has been a recent renaissance of the back three in Italy. Udinese and Napoli played their way into competing with the big boys, then Juventus adopted a 3-5-2 for a large amount of last season on their way to the scudetto. What separated the new look back threes from the ones common in the nineties was that the three defenders have generally been good on the ball. Before, there had a rough two stoppers and [...]
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