Formation · Defensive-solid
5-2-3 formation
Five-man backline with two central midfielders and a front three
Defensive-solidstyle bucket
11players
3variations
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Strengths and weaknesses
A quick honest read on what this shape gives you and what it asks you to accept.
Strengths
- Three attackers stay high, ready to counter
- Five defenders protect the box
- Wing-backs can join attacks to create overloads out wide
Weaknesses
- Only two midfielders, so the middle is the weak spot
- A big gap opens between defense and attack
- The wingers must track back or the wing-backs face 2v1s
Key roles on the pitch
The positional groups that make this shape work, use them as a roster-building checklist.
Goalkeeper
1 player
- GK
Defensive line
5 players
- LWB
- LCB
- CB
- RCB
- RWB
Midfield
2 players
- CM
- CM
Attack
3 players
- LW
- ST
- RW
Common variations
Shapes that share the 5-back defensive line, useful comparisons when you want to keep the back line and change the midfield.
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