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I think we'll see much more of this 442 formation. He used it very well at Real Madrid. To your point about getting in behind teams he used to play Ronaldo as the left CF and get the LW to pull wide and come deep for the ball. When that happened Ronaldo would be straight into the channel and the ball would come straight down the line. I think he was trying to do that yesterday with Son and Kane - wait for the arsenal press and then get into the channel. It worked very well.That 4411 formation works, it suits Kane he can drop off like he likes & detail with Son. Leaves space to attack.. When we have 3 coming inside behind Harry it just congests everything.. Was still times when Davies had ball & both Moura & Son were coming towards ball. One of them has to run in behind to open play up & drag defenders out of position..same when Son had ball centrally edge of box & he played it to Moura Son should spun out round the back of Moura into box to give him an option.. Think there might be a lack of trust there that he'd get ball back.. I thought Arsenal were there for taking start of 2nd half if we pressed them but we sat off into our own half it worked in the end & got win but I think keeping ball is best way of not conceding.. First half I'd happily except us playing like that & winning 2nd half we probably been punished by a good team