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This has been the topic of a hot discussion between me and a friend of mine. I always had the belief that the basic 4-4-2 and its variants would require both strikers swapping positions and constantly moving into channels, thus making the target man role kind of useless. I still believe a target man would work best in 4-5-1 formations, standing alone up front and opening space for inside forwards as well as playing with his back to goal and trying to get his midfield teammates into play.
I started to try it recently though, starting a new career with Catania, a team that has two very good target men who are both capable of playing with their back to goal, Maxi Lopez and Plasmati, as well as all qualities required to employ a 4-4-2 formation. It's honestly working quite well especially with the rigid philosophy, but the problem I've found then is that most offensive emphasis is placed on the two strikers, with central midfielders only carrying out defensive duties and wingers setting up crosses to the big target man, with some aid from full backs.
So I thought about asking for opinions. I use Morimoto/Antenucci as deep lying forward-support and Maxi Lopez/Plasmati as target man-attack. Do you think a target man could be capable of leading the offensive line of a 4-4-2 formation?
I started to try it recently though, starting a new career with Catania, a team that has two very good target men who are both capable of playing with their back to goal, Maxi Lopez and Plasmati, as well as all qualities required to employ a 4-4-2 formation. It's honestly working quite well especially with the rigid philosophy, but the problem I've found then is that most offensive emphasis is placed on the two strikers, with central midfielders only carrying out defensive duties and wingers setting up crosses to the big target man, with some aid from full backs.
So I thought about asking for opinions. I use Morimoto/Antenucci as deep lying forward-support and Maxi Lopez/Plasmati as target man-attack. Do you think a target man could be capable of leading the offensive line of a 4-4-2 formation?