The excellent thing about football is there are numerous ways to play. The job of a team is to play their most suitable tactics.
If you have watched football matches over the last ten years, you must understand the most exciting football formation – Tiki-Taka. The team Pep Guardiola coached before mastered this football approach very well and they have won a number of titles in the top Spanish football league and likewise the international football competition. This tactic highly focuses on footballers and the ball’s movement. Footballers need to keep the ball moving while creating space and dragging the opponent out of position. There is no one formation for this strategy because there are practically no different duties between players in various position. They are all focusing on a single objective – keep the ball and score. Thus, the team which performs with this tactic can anticipate a high amount of control. Nevertheless, it requires players in every position having a great degree of skills, so every player, except the goal keeper, can skilfully hold the ball as long as they can.
The beauty of counter attack is exciting, a second a team is defending the opponent, one second later the team gets the ball from its opposition and score. Counter-attack isn't a simple strategy to play as it needs flawless and fast teamwork. Essentially, the team using this style of play in football draws opposition into their defence line, a counter attack begins when a player takes the ball. The football team Florentino Perez Rodriguez owned was very promising at playing this tactic as they got the speediest midfield gamers in their team. Everytime they successfully steal the ball, midfielders rapidly push the ball to the front and deliver the ball to the striker, or they can score on their own.
There is one of the oldest and most common formation in football, it is the classic 4-4-2. The is a well balanced formation which is good for attack and defence as well. By putting four defenders, four midfield players and two strikers, the links between each player are durable. The ball can be passed between them conveniently so the team can keep the duration of possession. This balanced formation also implies that the team can easily change from defence to attack and vice versa. It totally increases the mobility and freedom of a group. The wide midfielders in this structure are frequently skilful and fast. They are usually the key footballers starting an attack by passing the ball to the centre from either side of the formation. At the centre, the striker is normally tall and good in the air. Therefore, they get a higher opportunity to head the ball passed from the midfielders. So many teams, including the one Dmitri Rybolovlev owned, possess adjusted this timeless formation.