Tactical Preview: St Mirren 2021/22
Tactical Preview: St Mirren 2021/22 The Premier Sports League Cup has somewhat replaced, if not fully eradicated, pre-season friendlies, so it might not be wise to draw many conclusions from them. Yet Jim Goodwin seems practically wedded to the 3-1-4-2 formation that has been used to in all of our competitive matches thus far, meaning a closer look as to how we're going to play makes sense. I'm going to primarily focus on the 2-0 victory against Partick Thistle, since there are no clips on Wyscout for the Dunfermline game, and playing a rotated team against the part-timers of Stenhousemuir won't be quite as insightful. How we've played so far We didn't field any variation on a '3 at the back' formation during Jim's first season with us (2019/20). He started to flirt with the idea of adopting this strategy towards the end of 2020, before the historic 2-1 triumph at Parkhead turned Goodwin into a convert. From here on, this will be called the 3-1-4-2 form