What is the best formation, formula and squad that Madugu can select against France?
- adeola bankole
- Nov 25, 2024
- 1 min read

I have a feeling Madugu will elect for a 4-3-3 formation. Barring last minute injuries, I ween our strongest starting 11 is:
Nnadozie
Alozie - Ohale - Demehin - Plumptre
Adoo
Echegini - Payne
Babajide - Onumonu - Nkor
Subs
Monday [-- Onumonu
Ucheibe [-- Adoo
Imuran [-- Plumptre
Oladipo [-- Alozie
Our local coaches play a brand of football built on largely formulaic and predictable individual play coalescing into decent team routines (physical/functional football) rather than a well calibrated, highly refined and supremely coordinated group dynamics leading the charge and devolving into unpredictable movements.
Functional football is easy to the eye and very plain. With players who know what they are doing and are very professional, it can cause problems even the most technical team on the planet.
And Madugu has highly competent players who are well versed in the job description of their roles and can raise their individual performance to make functional football effective. The traditional roles of wingers, midfielders, defenders and centre forwards (the cornerstone of physical/functional football) can be performed with class and effectiveness by most of the players invited.
After following closely the outputs of local coaches particularly in the last 5 years, I have come to perish the expectations of seeing tactical football in play. We simply do not have the infrastructure to produce this sort of football. So, hopefully our local coaches can enhance the possibilities inherent in traditional football of the 1970s 80s/90s and select players capable enough to bring modern interpretations to bear.
So, I am looking to see how things play out.
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