Spain's 1-4-6
By sirfixalotmn
@sirfixalotmn (26)
United States
August 14, 2012 7:25am CST
Spain has been using an unorthodox, NO STRIKER formation. Is this the future? Some people have said you'll see it in England this year. But a 1-4-6, really? Is this a formation other squads can use? Man City used a new wingback formation for the community shield, so it depends on your team and how you want to play. I don't think anyone will use spains system this year in England. Not practical unless you want to pass the ball into the back of the net.
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@ram_cv (16513)
• India
14 Aug 12
I think they were forced into this formation during the Euros. The injury to David Villa and the poor form of Torres forced the formation on the Spanish. Of course, they were good enough to win the Euros even with that formation, but I do not think they will persist with this formation once Villa is back from his injury.
Cheers!
Ram
@sirfixalotmn (26)
• United States
14 Aug 12
I forgot Vila was injured... but they do have some excellent strikers... llorente for instance who has a lot of prem interest... so I'm not sure why they did not go with him or someone else... I wonder if Spain's style of football doesn't suit having a striker because the striker is left alone too far up the pitch and therefore left out of the play... so they see it as wasting a player...
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@sjlskl (3382)
• Singapore
16 Aug 12
Actually, Spain is not the first team to play that formation. The first time I saw this formation was in a match between Arsenal and Man Utd. I can't remember which year was that but because of the unavailability of their attackers, Arsenal was force to start with Ljungberg as the front most player. I think they did quite well.
Of course, there are quite a few times we saw some teams playing in such a formation and their intention is to jam pack their midfield and hope to get at least a draw out of the match.
The former will not be a trend since almost no other teams has a midfield like Barcelona.
For the latter will still be the trend especially when the smaller teams play against the bigger one.
@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
14 Aug 12
There are many tall strikers and therefore I don't think many teams will play like this in the future. Even Spain, when it was necessary has introduced Torres and he has scored 3 goals in the European Championship. Barcelona is another team which plays without a striker, and they don't have a center forward in their squad. This has cost them the place in the final in my opinion, because a tall, goal poacher would have done the deal for them in the game against Chelsea. So I don't think that many teams will play without traditional strikers in the future.
@marcmm (1804)
• Malaysia
15 Aug 12
Before Spain use this formation, Arsenal FC have been using it first. This is when Arsenal didn't have any striker for their disposal. The top attacking role like Cesc Fabregas role in Spain was play by Andrei Arshavin.
I have seen the good and bad of this formation. This formation can only been played by the team that are very good in passing like Arsenal, barcelona and spain. The bad thing is, there are no plan B in this formation. A cross and head trick will not work. Long ball also not work. It only work for the free and fast passing teeam.
@redvakaurvaki (4216)
• Indonesia
14 Aug 12
it's very unique formation, but remember that Spain contain many stars and have good team coordination, it's very possible that they will succeed with any kind of formation. everyone knows Iniesta, Fabregas, Torres, Xavi, etc. who's doubt them?? for a short time, when they realize they lost their pure forwarder, this strategy works very well, but in long term, we don't really know...
