Playing with one center forward in italy is a failure, look to Milan, eveytime they play with one center forward they fail. thay have problems, with one CF, it's easy for the defenders to mark that one and let the midfielders suffers a lot to try to pass or score by quieting infront of them and hurt that team in counter attacks..this formation will not work in Italy.
that's about the dumbest thing I've heard tody, it's not the tactic that's supposed to be wrong, it's the player who plays upfront
Amauri versus Pato they are completely different players
Inzaghi and Trez are similar types and I agree that wouldn't work
but to generalise this by stating this would work in Italy is just stupid
ofcourse it would be easy to defend if you have a static attacker who isn't strong enough to face the defenders and doesn't move around enough
your cf needs body, can hold the ball to give it to upcoming am's
guess what we have Amauri and Iaquinta for this
and we have Gio, Diego, Camo, DP who can infiltrate every time
if executed well that would be unstoppable
we've been playing 4-4-2 forever and everybody knew how we where going to play
this tactic gives us the opportunity to play either deep to Amauri who can either hold the ball, go for goal or give it to an upcoming man
and we can also play with the am right through the midle or flanks cuz we have enough creativity to do it now
do not say it can't be done simply cuz we play in Italy, that's too narrow minded