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It's all about fluid tactics

AFP, London
Club football has outstripped national football to such an extent that major international tournaments no longer revolutionise the sport, but they still provide a useful window onto the Zeitgeist.
Of the 16 teams at Euro 2008, eight began the tournament playing with two out-and-out forwards; by the end, a further three, including both finalists, Spain and Germany, had switched to a lone striker.
The victory of 4-5-1 is all but complete.
Football had been moving in that direction for some time. No longer is five in midfield the preserve of lesser teams looking to kill the game or away sides in Europe seeking a goalless draw.
Of the 16 teams who made it to the knockout stage of last season's Champions League, only five played a traditional 4-4-2, and of them only
Schalke 04 and Arsenal - whose system was extremely fluid - made it to the quarter-finals.
The trend seems all but certain to be continued in the Premier League this season, which is not, as some would have us believe, a negative shift.
On the contrary, it breaks the often rigid lines of 4-4-2 and, when played well, leads to a greater fluency and fluidity.
That was something Sir Alex Ferguson acknowledged in 2000. The previous season, he had won theTYeble with a4-4-2 (or 4-4-1 -1, to be precise), but difficult games against Deportivo la Coruna and a quarter-final exit to Real Madrid persuaded him of the benefits of the extra midfielder.
For one thing, it permitted an extra holding player as cover in front of the back-four, and for another, it allowed the use of three creators: dribbling and fantasy could suddenly flourish again.
The signing of Juan Sebastian Veron was a failure, but it was part of Ferguson's shift to a 4-2-3-1, which
reached unexpected levels last season when the system frequently appeared to feature no orthodox forwards at alL
With Louis Saha injured, he paired Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez, both players who drop deep, creating an attacking vacuum that bewildered defenders, opening the way for Cristiano Ronaldo to swoop in from the wing. He responded with an astonishing 42 goals.
One up front looks like being central to thinking of the other members of the Big Four as well.
Perhaps, having signed Robbie Keane, Rafa Benitez is considering a 4-4-2 with Liverpool, but the success Fernando Torres enjoyed in a 4-2-3-1, with Ryan Babel, Steven Gerrard and Dirk Kuyt arrayed behind him, suggests that 4-4-2 is merely an option, and Keane could end up as part of the attacking-midfield three.
Arsene Wenger was for a long time an inveterate 4-4-2 man, but he too has shifted to a one-up policy, usually ina4-l-4-l.
That is why he was so keen to
hold on to Emmanuel Adebayor who, like Torres and Berbatov, is both physically imposing and technically gifted and so ideal as the focal point for attacking midfielders toplayoff.
At Chelsea, Luiz Felipe Scolari shows no sign of turning away from the 4-3-3 first instituted by Jose Mourinho.
The modem interpretation of the system, though, has little to do with the formation introduced by Brazil at the 1962 World Cup; rather it is another variant of 4-5-1, with two wingers supporting a lone front man.
Perhaps most intriguing, though, is what is happening at Tottenham, where Juande Ramos has signed Luka Modric and Giovanni dos Santos, two physically slight players who would usually be expected to struggle amid the physicality ofthe Premier League.
With modem rules to protect them and a modem 4-2-3-1 to provide a platform, frail fantasistas can prosper even in England.