DAVID MOYES might have hinted that he’ll consider using a twin strikeforce in the Premier League at times next season following the success of Jermaine Beckford and Louis Saha at Preston but I doubt we’ll be seeing that much of it.

Top teams who still play 4-4-2 are a dying breed and at the elite end of the game it’s a dying system.

These days the split-striker tactic of having one man up front on his own and another playing off him in front of the midfield is the way most sides go.

All the good teams try and get five players across the middle but those out wide push forward so the system adapts from 4-5-1 to 4-3-3 depending whether you’re in possession of the ball or not.

Because of Tim Cahill’s effectiveness ‘in the hole’, Everton have cultivated the 4-4-1-1 system for several seasons now and with the Australian having committed himself to Goodison for another four years I really can’t see them playing any other way for any prolonged period of time.

Systems are designed by the players you’ve got and the battle will now be on for the one likely attacking berth in the Everton side.

I don’t imagine that Moyes will just chuck Beckford in from the start in the Premier League and I can see him being given a substitute’s brief, certainly to start with.