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QPR boss Mark Warburton has found a way to help the previously faltering Yoann Barbet get through matches with his clever tactical tweak.
What’s the word?
In the first five league games of the season, the former Brentford boss adopted a 4-2-3-1 formation, which came with mixed results.
The R’s earned two wins, two losses and a draw while using the system, and summer signing Barbet, in particular, appeared to struggle in the system.
Signed from Brentford, the 26-year-old gave away two penalties at the start of the campaign. He said: “I gave away two penalties in the last five years, I think, and then I gave away two in four games against Huddersfield and Swansea. It’s obviously not what I wanted.”
What’s changed?
In the last three Championship outings, Warburton has used a 5-3-2 formation, a tweak which has merited three consecutive wins – the R’s have actually won their last four league games, but the first of those was with the 4-2-3-1.
In Barbet’s case, the mistakes have disappeared from his game almost entirely in the new formation.
It seems as though having Toni Leistner and Grant Hall alongside him, with Ryan Manning and Todd Kane in the wing-back positions, is helping Barbet get through matches in a more comfortable fashion.
He is no longer standing out like a sore thumb, nor is he letting the side down – Barbet’s mini-resurgence is a testament to Warburton’s coaching skills and his persistence with the Frenchman when he could simply have dropped him from his side and been done with it.
Barbet outperformed Hall in terms of WhoScored’s match ratings against both Sheffield Wednesday and Luton, while the Londoners have only conceded four goals in those three games – one of which was down to a horrible error by Joe Lumley against Luton.
Having previously looked very uncomfortable in the 4-2-3-1, Warburton has found a way to bring the best out of a previously underperforming ace.