Genoa and Lecce generally play with this. Lecce, when they were in Serie A, had something like the 3rd best attack but the worst defense but still eventually got relegated. Genoa score many goals this year, but also concede a lot, but still their options are great as it allows more wing play and attacking options.
Denorobob said:
Don't Udinese play 3 at the back this season in a 3-4-3 ?
Sabac Red said:
Napoli and Sampdoria both use 3-5-2...
Ste, both Genoa and Lecce are famous for their 4-3-3 (not 3-5-2)
zeman's lecce was the craziest 4-3-3 i ever seen... it was like watching the harlem globetrotters playing football :w00t:
Gasperini (genoa) instead is very loyal to the pure (no modifications) 4-3-3 system.
udinese too use a 4-3-3 formation. they have 4 guys back. dossena and mesto take care of the sides... they're among the most brilliants and interesting "hot prospects" in europe, talking about sidebacks.
napoli and samp instead, they actually play with a 3-5-2 most of the times. but their interpretations of this game system are completely different.
reja (napoli) lets the game flow at the centre, with gargano playing as a mezz'ala (a la gerrard) and hamsik giving support to the fowards.
Mazzarri (sampdoria) instead plays a more "enveloping" football, working a lot on on his mezz'ali (franceschini and del vecchio), especially on the right side, where maggio usually tries to overlap with del vecchio.
palermo too often plays this system.... and our interpretation of the 3-5-2 is different too.
we line up a pure defensive midfielder (migliaccio) and 2 mezz'ali (simplicio and guana, or caserta and jankovic... or bresciano).
so to sum up.... every team interpretate this system its own way, and there are no 2 teams playing with the same 3-5-2 in europe (i just talked about the italian teams u guys mentioned, but also in spain and in france there are some teams who sometimes display this system).
and this because there are too many variables, like the attitude of the central midfielders and of the wing-backs... many poor teams outside italy often display a 3-5-2 just to cover up a 5-3-2 formation, with 3 cbs and 2 sidebacks who play just a couple of meters ahead of the defensive line, with only defensive duties.
infact, unlike what neoexodus wrote, this formation can be extremely effective in defense... coz the 3 players ahead of the goalkeeper
are all cbs; they are always close each others (much more than a cb and a sideback, of course) and they can easily close any way to the box.
if the 2 wing backs don't push too much, they can take care of the opponent side players.
if they are supposed to push, instead, they can hold back the opponent side players.
moreover it is possible to add also 2 defensive midfielders, playing behind the midfeld line, keeping 3 mezz'ali upfront, supporting the fowards.
and finally, having 3 cbs, one of them can detach himself from the defensive line, and take place a couple of meters ahead of them (playing as a libero).
so it's not a matter of "field control, stability" or whatever. No team in the world attacks with 4 players moving toward the same spot in the same time, of course. and no team in the world defend with the whole defensive line, as also the more "defensive" 4-4-2s, usually leave more freedom to their sidebacks.
one of the most perfect application of this system was the italian national team at euro 2000. Zoff's 3-5-2 was a fantastic..... and it almost brought us the cup :whistle:
btw guys, it is just me or english football dictionary is extremely poor? i mean, is there a specific term to identify the various kind of side backs or midfielders or fowards???
because, in italian, there are hundreds of different words, wich define the kind of players. in the 3-5-2, for example the attitude of the players (in any role) must be completely different, so we don't use the word "difensore" (cb), terzino (sideback) or centrocampista (midfielder). we use other specific terms (mezz'ala, metodista, tornante, fuidificante, ecc.).
centrocampista (central midfielder) is a gereric, unspecific word, wich might mean everything and nothing at the same time.
i used the term "mezz'ali" to describe the 2 offensive midfielders (who are different from the "advanced midfielders") who plays in a 3-5-2 system (i said "a la gerrard" to make it more clear). is there an english translation of this term?? how would u define a gerrard, a perrotta, a del vecchio?
and what about the sidebacks? are there any other ways to describe the different types of sidebacks?? or it is just "sideback" or "wing back"????
i'm asking this coz sometimes it gets tough for me to describe roles and players in english. i mean, calling gerrard a "central midfielder" would be a blasphemy in italy.
thanks in advance to anybody who will be so kind to reply to my question
).... besides, if i got u right, i'm pretty sure u would think the same about me, if u would read my posts... so it doesn't really matter 
