Leody wrote:The way we play the 4-3-3, the wide players at the top play much wider and don't cut in as much.
If you watch how we played against OM (I think it was) last time, when Chamakh started. The central player in the front 3 drops deeper at times, allowing the wide players space to run in behind the defense. Something you don't see much, if at all in the PL. The wide players in Europe also don't hold the ball wide outside the box in the last 15yds looking for a cross hardly as much. And that's almost the only place you find ours, apart from Gervinho who will get on the ball there and carry it in looking for the cutback to RVP.
Edit: the way we play really is much more akin to a 4-5-1 than a 4-3-3 imo...
I see what your saying, but when Chamakh started against Stoke he was doing exactly that, droping deep to stretch their backline and creating space for balls to Walcott/Gervinho...and he was still utter wank.