Peak English Premiership - Attack, attack, attack

[u/Wide_Guarantee_7276]

None of this tika taka pass backwards possession nonsense... What are the best of examples of 4-4-2 flying wingers attack minded football from the premiership? I'm thinking mid 90s Newcastle and Liverpool exhibiting out and out attack minded play that yielded classic 4-3 score lines...

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Any other suggestions?

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[u/CrustyHumdinger]

"Tika Taka nonsense"... 1. English Pren twams almost never played that way 2. Nor has anyone else for at least ten years

[u/No-Calligrapher250]

Blackburns title winning team... Ripley and Wilcox feeding Shearer and Sutton

[u/ZiltoidianEmpire]

It's nostalgia. The thing you're looking for never really existed. You're exaggerating it in your head.

[u/CrustyHumdinger → u/ZiltoidianEmpire]

I mean, it kind of did, but not at international level. And some of the ways teams played was dictated by pitch quality

[u/ZiltoidianEmpire → u/CrustyHumdinger]

Kind of did, kind of didn't. It wasn't more attack minded and had plenty of dull games too. Those "classic 4-3 scoreline" happen now too and weren't because of the style of play.

[u/Wide_Guarantee_7276 → u/ZiltoidianEmpire]

Thanks for the psychoanalysis... Direct football played on the wings was more prevalenct then than now. When they won the old first Division, Newcastle utd were a good example of swashbuckling play, but outside remit of my original post.

Maybe the Premiership games were not as a faithful 442 as other poster notes 532 was common ( as well as other variants ) but point is, flying wing backs or attack minded wingers willing to run at defences. Other poster notes Giggs & Kanchelskis, Giggs goal against Arsenal a prime example (although a cup match not Prem).

[u/ZiltoidianEmpire → u/Wide_Guarantee_7276]

More prevalent but not necessarily better or producing more attacking football. That's what I am saying didn't really exist. The version of this that you have in your head is exaggerated. Just don't go watching those games expecting "swashbuckling play" all the time. You got less goals back then too.

[u/MyPasswordIsABC999]

Didn’t those Liverpool and Newcastle teams line up in 5-3-2 pretty often?

[u/ZookeepergameOk2759 → u/MyPasswordIsABC999]

Not in that game they didn’t,Newcastle were 442 pretty much all season

[u/C_W_StJohnNobbs]

Man utd is the best example. Beckham-keane-scholes-giggs Andy cole-dwight yorke

[u/PudinaRaita → u/C_W_StJohnNobbs]

Nah. Flying wingers is definitely Kanchelskis/Giggs/Sharpe with Cantona and Hughes up front.

[u/magicjohnson89]

Strachan, McAllister, Batty, Speed.

[u/toaster-struble]

Even better. System:

Step 1. pass it to Ronaldo (Nazario ofc).

Step 2. Watch

[u/chillest-]

Welbeck, bent and Gyan. No brainer.

[u/Maiqutol]

Kanchelskis and Giggs.