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One Up Front Say Swans Fans
Monday, 18th Aug 2014 13:28 by Planet Swans (follow us on Twitter @swansnews)

After much deliberation and discussion, Swans fans have given their thumbs up to a one up top formation following votes in our recent poll.

After the home friendly defeat to Villarreal where Garry Monk tried a different formation there were long discussions over the format of the team and how we should line up for the season opener at Old Trafford.

In that game, Monk reverted to the tried and tested 4-2-3-1 formation which paid huge dividends as we recorded our first ever league win at Old Trafford. It is a formation that we have become accustomed to over recent years and many of our squad have come into the club with us playing that way and wouldn't know a different formation.

The formation allows the full backs to join the attacks when needed but it also gives extra protection to the defence when needed with the likes of Ki (as we saw at Old Trafford) sitting deep in front of them to shore up any more opposition attacks.

And with two quick wingers in Dyer and Routledge on Saturday (and the likes of Emnes and Montero in reserve) we have the ability to create space using these players without leaving ourselves completely exposed at the back.

Of course a formation with just one up front needs the right strikers involved. We saw when Jason Scotland was at the club that he was the right man for this job and the goals he scored completely backed that up and last season with Wilf in position he also showed that it was a formation that worked perfectly with him in the side. This season we have both Wilf and Bafe waiting to play that position and Bafe showed in his brief spell on Saturday that he can too play in that position which gives us endless options this season.

The 4-2-3-1 formation grabbed the highest number of votes in the poll closely followed by the 4-5-1 formation with the 3-5-2 widely mooted as an ideal getting just 11% of the votes cast in this particular poll

And given the result at Old Trafford on Saturday nobody is likely to disagree with these results right now.

Give our current playing staff - what would be your preferred playing formation?


The Result:
MembersNon-MembersTotal
4-3-3022
4-2-3-191120
4-4-2235
3-5-2145
5-3-2011
4-5-1617
Other044


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