Hürzeler's St. Pauli 3-4-3 (2-3-5)

Here's my recreation of the tactics that gave the St. Pauli team promotion to the Bundesliga.

The base formation is 3-4-3, but in possession of the ball the team fluidly switches to 2-3-5 leaving a huge space in the middle of the field which puts the opponent's pressing in a lot of confusion.

Formation on paper:


Build up formation:


Results:




Test with Polish lower league underdog team: