4-4-2

English

4-4-2 (plural 4-4-2s)

(soccer) A popular football formation with 4 defenders, 4 midfielders and 2 strikers.
- 2012 May 26, Phil McNulty, “Norway 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:
  England's formation was a rigid 4-4-2 against a Norway side of surprisingly limited ambition and on one of the rare occasions James Milner got in the action he forced a save from Jarstein.
Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has a two-axle leading truck, two powered driving axles and a one-axle trailing truck.
- 1951 March, David R. Webb, “British 4-4-2 Tank Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:
  While not, perhaps, the handsomest of 4-4-2 tanks, as they had a rather large proportion of their driving wheels exposed, they proved very useful locomotives, doing yeoman work on suburban trains around London and Birmingham, and later on numerous rural routes.
- 1965, Philip Shuster, Eugene L. Huddleston, Alvin F. Staufer, C & O power: steam and diesel locomotives of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, 1900-1965, page 16:
  This group of 30 0-8-0’s came from Baldwin between July and October 1948 and were given road numbers 255 to 284 (C/N 74024 to 74053) pushing aside several 4-4-2’s in the 275-284 bracket in the process.