The Rise of the Eights, the Fall of the Fullbacks
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How to Get More Solid at the Back With Defensive Midfielders
The defensive midfielder is dropping into the back line. And it is a three to at the back in which the two are basically the starting eights. This is not a system that holds up to controlling midfield. But what it does is it creates a way to contest fast direct counter attacks.
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