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Catenaccio Dead bolt formation
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Introduction

If you are part of the football circle then you have probably heard of the word catenaccio, which means “dead-bolt” or “lock” in literal terms but it is interpreted as a very bad word referring to Italian football from the ‘60s and ‘70s that was negative at best. There are some tactical lessons to be learned from Catenaccio and any soccer coach should take these into consideration. However, Catenaccio can be a very good strategy to use for defense when it is correctly performed. In fact, the result of implementing Catenaccio may be one of the very best defensive strategies that exist in football. There is of course one good reason why Catenaccio isn’t liked by many soccer fans and that is as simple as the strategy keeps the other team from scoring

History of the formation
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Catenaccio was supported primarily by Helenio Herrera, an Argentinean trainer who was also the coach of Italian Serie A side Inter Milan back in the ‘60s. Herrera used Catenaccio to win two European Cups and four Serie A titles, which is proof positive that the system worked wonders. Of course, by this point you may be wondering how Catenaccio is implemented. Basically, Catenaccio uses a formation of 1-3-3-3 which is considerably more stable and provides more defense to the goal. The formation has one sweeper (1), three marking defenders (3), three midfielders (3) and finally three attackers (3) that make up the 1-3-3-3 formation. Occasionally Herrera would use four marking defenders and a sweeper that would defend the area between the defensive line and the goalkeeper. He would cover any attackers, pick up loose balls, as well as move the ball from the defense area to midfield where he could then attack. The Italians were popular for Catenaccio and this defensive strategy. However, the English clubs were using a different strategy. They were playing with a 3-2-5 formation that was the old “WM” style and it really did not have a chance when compared to the Italian Catenaccio.

To the formation
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Team instruction
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League position stats
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I won seria a as most people would say is easy with inter i found it intresting so as you can see we lost 8 games and drawn 5 but no formation is perfect and you cant win every game and all ways room to inprove.


Cup stats

Dispite losing to bayern munchen in the champions league by away goals rules i still think this formation can do very well.

I all so lost in the italy cup napoli in the qtr finals this cup as i am playing as inter milan seems pointless.

On a good side i did win the super cup at the start of the season Vs Ath Madrid All so won the club world championship.

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Touchline Shouts:
None but if you use them go ahead

Opposition Instructions:
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Please leave good and bad feedback and where you think i should inprove the formation and i will do thank for reading​
 
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surprisingly worked well for my wales team, quite a solid tactic when its been learnt by the whole team properly! love it
 
thanks for the great feed back could you show some screenshots
 
Looks interesting mate. Been a few of these tactics made lately but yours is the First with a single CB. Looks to have been some good results although id have been hoping for a slightly higher possession ratio. Good work though :)
 
Am working with the formation to boost the possession ratio. and so far an average is around 61% max i had was 73% vs lazio but this style is a 433
 
will add some screenshots in next few days if i manage to get pc working, am gonna try to have a fiddle with it and see if i can get some possession, i was averaging 42%
 
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