Why is Everyone Using a Box Midfield?

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Why is Everyone Using a Box Midfield?

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Arsenal, Chelsea & Barça haters or lovers enjoy. :D
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Okosisi, 2016:
Coach wrote: Sun Aug 28, 2016 11:57 am @Tx, the inversion of the fullbacks and deep drop of Fernandinho, affords a 3-2-4-1 shape, to some extent. Years back, you'll recall one's argument that the elixir to the orthodoxy of today was indeed a 3-2-4-1, with expectation for this concept to become a norm in the future.
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@Kabalagala, the box gives central supremacy to the beholder, its opening unleashes all the unpleasantries of Pandora on the opposition. In possession, its the W-M of Old Herbie Chapman, throw some Ds on that like a white vested, chic and champagne clown burning through is advance in a gold plated Escalade. As the double pivots move from zonal to man-to-man, to try and nullify the two Tens, Darwinian forces will mandate their lateralisation. In time, just as the archaeopteryx flapped its fins and took to the sky, the tenners will move towards the space once housed by the 7s and 11s. Inverted wide-midfielders, moving out to in, wide forwards chalk on boots, overloads, underlaps, rhomboids and pentagons.
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Coach wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:24 pm @Kabalagala, the box gives central supremacy to the beholder, its opening unleashes all the unpleasantries of Pandora on the opposition. In possession, its the W-M of Old Herbie Chapman, throw some Ds on that like a white vested, chic and champagne clown burning through is advance in a gold plated Escalade. As the double pivots move from zonal to man-to-man, to try and nullify the two Tens, Darwinian forces will mandate their lateralisation. In time, just as the archaeopteryx flapped its fins and took to the sky, the tenners will move towards the space once housed by the 7s and 11s. Inverted wide-midfielders, moving out to in, wide forwards chalk on boots, overloads, underlaps, rhomboids and pentagons.
Can someone translate this for me..... :biggrin:
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Coach wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:24 pm @Kabalagala, the box gives central supremacy to the beholder, its opening unleashes all the unpleasantries of Pandora on the opposition. In possession, its the W-M of Old Herbie Chapman, throw some Ds on that like a white vested, chic and champagne clown burning through is advance in a gold plated Escalade. As the double pivots move from zonal to man-to-man, to try and nullify the two Tens, Darwinian forces will mandate their lateralisation. In time, just as the archaeopteryx flapped its fins and took to the sky, the tenners will move towards the space once housed by the 7s and 11s. Inverted wide-midfielders, moving out to in, wide forwards chalk on boots, overloads, underlaps, rhomboids and pentagons.
Hmm like Messi, Mbappe, Neymar or Rushford?
Wait, those are not tenners but I got the gist. I think. :)
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