We’ve all heard of the many formations in a football game, 4-4-2, 5-3-2, 4-3-3, 3-5-2, 4-2-4, 3-4-2, and 4-2-4. There was one that is still unlike the one that was brought on by the Rossoneri’s Puricelli. In Italian football, the previous fifty years would provide numbers for their formations, however, at the beginning of the thirties up to the sixties there was a shift. There was a particular formation that would allow for a switch of numbers to letters, an alternative that made it possible to read the formations in an interesting way. This so-called tactic of formations is called the “WM” system. The “W” represented the formation of strikers, while the “M” for defenders.
If we represented the formation into numbers, we could speak of a 3-2-2-3 (an oddly shaped 3-4-3), with three defensive fullbacks protected by two mid-fielders, while another line of two mid-fielders that supported the three strikers. This formation, was thought to have been invented in England in the twenties and eventually became the gospel across many fields of that time. Eventually it also became adopted by coach Hector Puricelli, and it was one that allowed the Rossoneri to win their fifth Scudetto, hence being the one bringing success for the 1954/55 season.
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