Manager Thread

think this one is quite interesting.

professional standard (premier league)

is it better for a team to play with 3-5 different formations and change every game, or one formation that the players know inside out.

Teams these days train all week to nullify the opposition, for example if a team play 3-5-2 they very rarely do it for long. Martinez at Wigan started with 3-5-2 which was amazing, but after a few months teams spent a lot of time working it out and were ready by Saturday and they eventually were relegated that season. Chelsea this season have struggled because teams have "worked them out" Mourinho in general has moulded teams from scratch, to an exact system he wanted to play and always seemed to fail in his 3rd season.

So is it better to have 4-5 formations that are changed with education random which the players are not 100% sure about, or have 1-2 formations that they AND the opposition know very well