- Wingers seem to be holding their width much better deeper on the pitch, however in the final third and closer to the box, they still seem to get much narrower (colliding/getting in the way of midfielders positioned higher up) even when instructed to stay wider (on highest width TI as well).
- On the ball, I'm noticing that IWs and IFs still seem to rarely cut inside and prefer to drive down to the byline more often and off the ball, they don't make as many diagonal runs to try and get in behind a backline, or allow for rotation on the flanks.
So the combination of the two essentially means, that yea, while we are deeper, the wingers hold the width better, but make no diagonal runs into the space in behind, and once we get higher up the pitch, they routinely get in the way of midfielders who are in these sort of free 8 positions. I don't know if perhaps I'm making some sort of mistake, but I thought that with news that the midfielders were to be positioned higher, that the wingers would be able to provide enough width to allow them space to operate and rotate, especially in the final third where it matters most. Hopefully you can see the attached image, but that's like, the best example I could find of what I am trying to describe, the wingers hold that width even that high up the pitch and their roles would be (in fm) inverted wingers.
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