Happy Monday to you all! Not really, I hate Mondays. 

If you’ve just joined us me and my brother are doing a head to head to see who can do the best in one season with our own 97/98 Team GB squads in Serie A. 

I’m currently ahead of Darren at the halfway stage, but that can all change. 

My boys are currently doing okay. 2nd in the league and into the CL Quarters. We’re out of the Coppa Italia though. 

We kick off the New Year with a gift from Sampdoria. The game was won in the first half and we made a load of changes which let them back into the game. 

For an explanation of sorts, please see part 1.

Right, let’s get into it. 

Tactics. I’m not 100% married to the players in these positions, will see how it goes. But these are the tactics I will employ for Team GB. They usually do me well, and as it’s only a one season challenge, I don’t have the time to experiment……go with what you know eh.

Catch up with part 1 here.

After a couple of friendlies I’m going with this formation and starting line up. Competition for places.

This had alway been my go-to formation. Again before joining Twitter, was unaware of the 2-3-1-2-2. That’s a good formation and effective, but I find it’s difficult to get the whole team to play well. Wing-backs in particular. This formation will get everyone 7.20+ if they are the right fit and good enough. It’s all opinions and preferences.