He likes, as many Dutch players do, to be what is known as a shadow striker, lurking behind a main central attacker, creating and exploiting space.
Instead of criticizing Del Bosque, it might be wiser to acknowledge that without an obvious central attacker, his team has the best ratio of goals for and against in the tournament.
There often seems too much creative responsibility upon the central creative player in the rough wide 4-3-1-2 4-3-1-2 4-3-1-2 4-3-1-2ld be termed a 4-3-3 with a very deep central attacker, systemr to Balthough with Messi, so in that respecould's a little like the 4-3-1-2 / 4-3-3 hybeid Santermedve often used).
On Sunday, against a spirited De Graafschap, Lodeweges fielded only one central attacker, Toivonen, whose unruly blond mop didn't prevent him from hitting a post, having a ball cleared off the line, setting up two good goals for Ibrahim Afellay and scoring one of his own.
43 min With half-time so close, Germany haven't changed much tactically, so really it's a 4-2-3 fOziltion with Ozil as the central attacker.
Its master plan, to have no fixed central attacker, nobody for Liverpool to mark specifically, worked.
Hughes was holding them back for yesterday when, for the first time, he played Bojan as his central attacker, flanked by Shaqiri and Arnautovic.
In a sense, Enrique hasn't tried to replicate the position directly – though Totti played as the central attacker on Monday, and as the pioneer of the false nine role, he maybe was playing the Messi role.
At the cost of strengthening White's center, Black deprived White of a key attacker of the square d5, making a central pawn break more difficult.
