Massimiliano Allegri : Midfielders CHARACTERISTICS OF THE THREE IN A THREE MIDFIELD

In modern football it is applied various different gaming systems, which are used keeping in mind the physical, technical and psychological of the players that the coach has at his disposal. It shall some systems focused on the figures of the midfielders, but I will not go on the systems to be adopted according to the characteristics of the opposing team on duty, because this would lead too far in the exposition and falls outside the task that I have proposed.

That year just finished (2004/2005 football year) was my second coaching experience. I was forced to make a virtue of necessity in regard to the choice of a form of the game, because I did not know all the features of the individual players that society, SPAL, had put at my disposal; I, in fact, reached the team only the day before that on which the same team left for the retreat. So I had to take some 'time before choosing the form in which to play the team, so you can make the most of the potential of the individual to gradually players who had no way of knowing. At first I thought to adopt a 4-4-2, form that ensures at least a good defensive seal; then, for shortlist reasons and due to various injuries are passed to a 4-3-3 (see Fig. 1 below).

In the first eight games we played using this system; I later changed the structure of the field center, in the sense that instead of playing with low director # 4 (see again Fig. 1), I spilled the triangle center field and I made the team play with the two median and the advanced playmaker (see Fig. 2), always maintaining in two offensive attack the external and the central tip and maintaining the in-line four defenders: