Messi

Barcelona attackig trio Messi, Suarez and Neymar. They were the attacking front three for the Catalan giants between 2014 and 2017.

An attacking midfielder playing as the focal of the attack rather than an out and out striker. The main purpose of this is to have an extra creative player who can drop in to the midfield as required and give the opposition centre backs something different to think about. Should the centre backs choose to track the false 9, the leave space behind for the wingers to exploit. Should they choose to not track, they leave a creative attacking player with space to do damage.