The U.S. Women’s National Team have continued with the same system that now departed coach Jill Ellis used so brilliantly in last summer’s World Cup triumph. The 4-3-3 is a staple of modern football, expressing the need to control matches through a dominant central midfield trio. And few teams in football, men’s or women’s, execute it better than the USWNT.
Throughout Olympic qualifying, the USWNT have dominated matches due to their superiority in central midfield. Whoever new head coach Vlatko Andonovski has selected, they have strolled their way through matches with consummate ease.
The USWNT used that formation to win the FIFA World Cup and they’ll power it up all the way to an expected Gold Medal in this summer’s Olympic Games.