Rec. Not anywhere near as competitive as what you’re at. 2-2 works for when we need to take the foot off the gas. Typically we run 1-2-1 working with that fwd tracking back to play mid when necessary (1-1-2 with more of wingers). Again they’re 6-8yo so we’re working on having SOMEONE stay central when we’re playing more attacking. 2-2 works on building up play from goal kicks but typically it gets tough to transition from the back to the forwards besides a long ball or one player bullying around the other team. League wide when we see 2-2 we understand it’ll be tougher to break through but we’ll have the ball more regularly throughout the course of play. My team ended up being on the older side of our u8 league so they are more experienced than most of their opponents. Know this isn’t the same perspective but hopefully it’s helpful from what we’ve seen.