I wasn't trying to demonstrate width but your point is a very valid one anyway, it just goes to show that in trying to cover the poor fullbacks whilst staying true to our formation, ciro has well and truely overstreched the three man midfield, maybe this is why melo has only looked half the player he usually is, he's just stranded in the middle alone.
It's no secret that for this formation to work we need great fullbacks, that unfortunetly we don't have.
Therefore the 4-3-1-2 is just not right, I feel sorry for ciro in this respect because this was obviously his master plan.
Like I said we need the CM's to balance out this 3 man midfield as they are better at finding space than our DM's, space is the key to dominating a midfield which is the vital area on the battle field, notice how mesured passes into neat spaces for another midfielder are far more effective than 3 DM's throwing their weight around in desparration for the ball. A RB that can play football would do this formation a wold of good too.
But for the times like this ciro really should have a back up plan.
and that's the inexperience talking