When Minnesota United lined up for Saturday night’s 3-0 win against Sporting Kansas City, the Loons once again did so without their usual back five. Instead, manager Eric Ramsay chose a formation so classic that a venerable English soccer magazine was named for it: the 4-4-2.

The wrinkle was that, while the traditional formation includes two strikers, the Loons lined up attacking midfielders Joaquín Pereyra and Robin Lod as their front men — meaning, effectively, that they were playing with zero strikers.

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