2010 Choices that need to be made (part 1)

The way I see it, with the 2010 season fast approaching, is that Real Salt Lake has some big decisions to make leading up to and throughout training camp. I would like to touch on a few of these over the next couple days, namely team formation, player acquisitions, and position battles. We’ll start off with formation today since I believe everything else needs to be determined by what formation Kreis sends out there.

In 2008 and 2009 coach Kreis grew very fond of a 4-4-2 formation that saw all four midfielders playing in a tight diamond shape up the middle. That formation served them well to end 2008 and then due to some issue’s integrating new players into the mid diamond it was abandoned early in 2009 for a 4-3-3 that lifted Real out of a disastrous month of May where they lost four games and tied two for a win less month.