4-3-3 "Total Football"

[Marco Brown]

I am usually not a big fan of arrows, but yes, the set up is just like in the picture. It seems high risk but during the matches I have a lot of scoring chances.

Here are the original orders posted by Adel:
Mentality: Attacking
Tackle: Normal
Focus Passing: Down both flanks
Passing style: Short
Marking: Zonal
Pressing: Own half
Force counter: Yes
Offside trap: No

I think one of the key points are that your defence is on the attack as well as the rest of your team. It seems like the defense oriented players in this formation would be your one DC and one MC.

With all these arrows on your defense you are still pressing in your own half but much further up, which would be the opponents midfielders, so basically your counter attack starts at the center of the pitch.

I also noticed, that if you start to receive bookings, you should change to hard tackle. Or if your opponent starts to have scoring chances you should switch to hard attacking.

If I play against 3 DC's I leave the red arrow off of my AMC, if I play against 4 defenders I add the red arrow to my AMC. If my opponent has a DMC I move my AMR up by one square.

This formation offers a lot of triangles which makes short passing the perfect passing style, it also adds to your possesion. Either way, whenever I did use it, I walked away with a win.

I will experiment a little more to see how it does against other formations. I usually set up 541 to give a defensive impression and would change it right before kick off, this throws everyone off and then many do not know how to react try it for yourself in some friendlies and see how your team like it.

[Doom Rides]

I Agree with Marco apsolutely, but I need explanation from him what is the exact time when he makes change tactics. 5 min before kick off, 6 min before kick off or when the game begins immidiately ? Becouse the engine does not give to change tactic something about 4-5 min before kick off.

[Marco Brown]

I Agree with Marco apsolutely, but I need explanation from him what is the exact time when he makes change tactics. 5 min before kick off, 6 min before kick off or when the game begins immidiately ? Becouse the engine does not give to change tactic something about 4-5 min before kick off.

I usually change as soon as the game starts, I would make sure that the orders are already in place and that the players are set, so the only thing I have to do after kick off is to move the players in their positions.

[Bubba]

I also noticed, that if you start to receive bookings, you should change to hard tackle. Or if your opponent starts to have scoring chances you should switch to hard attacking.

If I play against 3 DC's I leave the red arrow off of my AMC, if I play against 4 defenders I add the red arrow to my AMC. If my opponent has a DMC I move my AMR up by one square.

Sorry, Marco Brown, you mean that if you're going to get yellow cards, you can turn in hard takle? Is it no longer more dangerous? In this way there is no danger about getting red cards?