Its pretty simple, I've seen two succesful 4-3-3's realistically, in the history of football, Chelsea and they only won things using it when they had Duff and Robben, two of the fastest footballers around and were in top form at the time, with an utterly world class DM and two OFFENSIVE midfielders with the one defensive minded one.
Likewise Barcelona, two of the fastest and best players in the world in Henry and Messi on the wings, with a top draw defensive midfielder and two incredibly high quality midfield players around them.
You can not run a 4-3-3 with slow wingers, a woeful DM and a useless player going forwards or defending in Diaby, it just doesn't work.
Look at the support our fullbacks get with two "higher" winger/strikers in the 4-3-3, as in, no support whatsoever. When they do get back the lone striker is so ridiculously isolate its a joke.
THe thing is with a 4-4-2 you don't need the same pace on the wing, because your striker already has some support, its more crucial to have pace in a 4-3-3 is you have one striker in need of support as fast as possible, in a 4-4-2, supports there to start with, any extra is a bonus.
We're also crowding out Fabregas massively, he's only looked a much worse player since he came back from injury last year in a 4-4-1-1 because we pushed him up the field a lot, for no reason, out of his element. This year we've put him in a non working, over crowded midfield 3, he's still a superb player but his consistancy "appears" to not be there simply because, what he does best, he can't do in that setup.
Nothing in our squad favours a 4-3-3, crap dm's, slow wingers, strikers that will never be good as lone strikers.
If you look at the stats, through preseason and even the Everton/Pompie games, we've been creating fairly few chances, just been ultra clinical for a change, but is shows the fluidity and movement just isn't there. Like tonight, two flukey goals to get us back into the game, did we really create any real chances after Bendtners goal, did we look, with all the posession, like scoring with every attack, against a team that with 4-4-2 not long ago, we ripped to shreds 7-0?
4-3-3's better? Wenger's gone completely mental now, downhill for 5 years now and then he goes and completely loses it. A team built for 4-4-2, one of the best squads in the league, so he changes up formation and constantly starts 3 stupidly bad players.
"Gerrard never dives, English players are too honest to dive"
" demands even earlier this year.