wpdavid
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After your previous post about Italian sides in the late 1960s/early 1970s, I looked at the line-up in the 1970 WC Final.From a formation perspective I thought their 1978 side reflected the shape quite well but the personnel were off.
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They played with midfielders more than wingbacks back then, which is likely because the player most suited to playing wingback for them was transitioning to sweeper. Neeskens was a good fit whenever he played there but he's a weirdo and tried to be Cruyff Lite far too often in my view..

1970 FIFA World Cup final - Wikipedia

Now obviously this is just one person's take on the side, so it doesn't necessarily follow that they played four at the back. Bertoni may be wrongly described as a 'DM', whereas other places describe him as a defender or a midfielder. The former possibly makes more sense if the Italians were playing catenaccio in 1970. I can honestly say that I had no idea when watching the final as a ten year old. My understanding of that formation was a sweeper behind four defenders, which, I think, fits with your description of how Inter played in that era. Of course, Italian football had such a negative reputation in those days that the attacking contribution of the full-backs/wing-backs was less than obvious.
Looking at other sides, Beckenbauer's sweeper role seems to be behind three defenders rather than four, so I don't think the German full-backs would really have been wing-backs at all.
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