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With Euro 2012 starting in roughly three weeks time, Roy Hodgson only has training sessions and two friendlies to assess who he thinks can fit into his system for the first fixture against France on the 11th of June. It is well known Hodgson favours a 4-4-2/4-4-1-1 system. Jonatan Johansson said himself on Sky Sports, “Hodgson prefers a 4-4-2 with one striker a bit lower to cut off the holding midfielder”. Pundits will probably call it 4-2-3-1 but they will be missing out the fact that the wide players under Hodgson do not often play, or at least initially start, in the same band as the deeper striker which is why it should be classified as 4-4-1-1/4-4-2. Hodgson himself said,“With 4-4-2 you have the added advantage that whichever striker receives the ball has support at all times and if balls are played forward there is someone to threaten the back of the defence”. As manager of Fulham, Hodgson often played a 4-4-1-1 with the withdrawn striker Zoltan Gera playing behind Bobby Zamora.* He has a preference towards a bigger striker as he has shown with his fondness for Zamora and his attempts at signing Carlton Cole for Liverpool as nobody [...]
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