Attacking full-backs are more important than ever - Chelsea's are basically auxiliary wingers - meaning teams are getting forward in Numbers and leaving lots of space behind them.

进攻型边后卫受到史无前例的重视，比如切尔西的边后卫基本都是助攻型。这种战术意味着球队有多名球员前压，身后当然会留下大片空档。

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No, they played a groundbreaking system of 4-2-2-2 and even two of those four at the back were attacking full-backs!

没有，他们创造性的打起了4222阵型，甚至在后卫线上的4名球员中也有两名是攻击型后卫！

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Though if he finds that South Africa have good attacking full-backs, he is likely to pull a central midfielder very deep into a holding role, as he did with Mauro Silva in 1994.

BBC: SPORT | Football | African | Parreira style

The Scarlets probably had different feelings on seeing one of the northern hemisphere's finest attacking full-backs take the field against them, especially with the Ospreys starting to find some fluidity in the backline.

BBC: Scarlets 14-21 Ospreys