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Guardiola’s ‘striker-less specials’ a City masterpiece in the making – The World Game
More than half a century after England’s ‘wingless wonders’ won the FIFA World Cup, Manchester City are in pole position to snare their first UEFA Champions League…
Manager Alf Ramsey masterminded England’s triumph in 1966 by using Roger Hunt and Geoff Hurst as strikers with Bobby Charlton and Nobby Stiles at the top and bottom of a very narrow diamond. Alan Ball and Martin Peters were on the sides.
The modified 4-4-2 system was foreign to a football country that saw wing play as one of its main strengths but, after a tentative start to the campaign, it worked.
Pep Guardiola, who is one of the shrewdest minds in world football, is using a similar innovative…
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