Kenny Jackett's plan B to fire Wolves to Premier League
Kenny Jackett is likely to persist with trialling Wolves' new formation in pre-season - as he looks to engineer a plan B to turn to in their promotion charge.
Wolves lined up with a 4-3-1-2 system against Paris FC on Friday, playing with a midfielder behind the front two.
Jackett will be wary of avoiding a slump like the one seen last season when he admitted Wolves had been 'worked out' as they lost five on the spin.
That run arguably cost them a shot at automatic promotion, let alone the play-offs.
And Jackett said Wolves should take the example of champions Watford who regularly used two systems.
Of the new system he said: "I won't be frightened to use it.
"I've used that diamond formation and I think it can give you some control through midfield.
"You have to have the right balance. We'll see if that works for us going forward.
"I wasn't disappointed in that particular game what it brought and I could see some possibilities.
"You do need two systems and hopefully we'll be able to go from on to the other and it be seamless and not disrupt your flow and actually improve the team."
Bakary Sako scored 15 goals from wide left last season, albeit four were penalties, and his departure leaves a big hole for Jackett to plug.
He has suggested David Edwards could step up to the goalscoring mark.
So would playing 4-3-1-2 help negate the loss of Bakary Sako?
"Certainly if you can put one attacking midfield player behind the strikers with the responsibility to get goals is one way of hoping you can get a third player in that could score," Jackett said.
"I don't necessarily think we've got wide men who are going to get 15 goals.
"If you're looking at Watford last year, who dovetailed between a 3-5-2 and a four diamond two, all their goals came through the middle.
"They didn't have any wide players who got goals, but we're very strong in that particular area.
"It is a way, whether it works for us, it would certainly give one midfield player licence and responsibility to both create and score and that can help supplement the front two."
