Quote Originally Posted by Satria Merah View Post
I read somehwere abount countering formation for top eleven as follow:

To win against this 4-4-2 classic formation and beat it you need to keep the midfield whilst being strong in attack, what I’d recommend is a 4-5-1 V formation with attacking arrows on the DMC to effectively turn him to a MC when you are attacking.

————-ST—————
AML———————AMR
———MC——-MC———
————-DMC (UP)———
DL—- —-DC–DC———DR

If you are losing add arrows to both sets of wingers to give you an extra edge.

Orders:
Mentality: Depends how many you want to win by, go for an attacking against weaker teams and vice verse for stronger.
Passing: Mixed
Pressing: Own half without offside trap, full pitch with fast defenders and offside trap.
The others do not really matter, just make sure your opponent has no AM when you do the offside or counter attack.

I use 4-5-1V against an opponent using 4-4-2 Classic but lose 0-4 even though I follow exactly as above. The only reason I can think of is my opponent is either token buying player or he's using cheat code because we are in Level 3 but his average quality is already 35 and most of his players are 5* players. (he must bought a lot of scout players the season before. My average quality is only 21.) My league is a 1 team league because of this opponent. He is undefeated and scoring goals like mad 48 against 1.
No, the reason is the opponent has much more skilled players, difference 35 to 21 in average skill is too much, no formation could help you to erase this difference and beat him - only one thing could help, if he was dumb and would play illegal formation, may be 80% of ball possesion could help you, but stil, it is not sure, you still could receive just 1 goal out of 30 shots and he could receive 2 goals out of 2 shots...

So, you are only partially right, buying tokens is required condition, but it is not sufficient. You think that buying tokens is both required and sufficient, as well.

Your scenario:
(A) buying tokens ---> (B)winning

But there are many very important by-product:
(A) buying tokens ---> {1} invest them properly to your team ---> {2} using team in reasonable way ---> (B) winning

I am slight/moderate tokens buyer ($50 a season), and twice I played in league with heavy tokens buyer in the lead - I simply cannot beat them (I hope I made 1 tie and 1 lose with both of them), so I understand your feelings of frustration... I internally took it like that we are only 13 teams in the league and these tokens buyer is something like very tough, but still only training opponent, and I was just playing only for 2nd place (first time I suceeded, second I was 8th).

I have also opposite experience, with dominating whole season, winning all matches, scoring more than 100 goals, receiving only 6, having only 4 real opponents (2nd to 5th place) and like training on others... Definitely, I was heaviest token investor, I was spending on my team the most. It was not that good - I was scarred of even tie with other, it was very psychically exhausting and boring, just have obligation to win - but what could I do? Intentionally lost matches after heavy investment to my team?

The best season was the last - very balanced team quality (difference between the best and the worst average skill was like 6 points, it means whole league was between 56 and 62), so it was very exiting season, you cannot expect any results in advance (I won the season, but only two teams I lost with were in the second half of the table). On the one hand this is the right way of mixing teams together - on the basis of the most similar quality - but on the other hand it is very unfair at least to the teams in the second half of the table, which are on the same level of skill development as some teams in the first half, and that may be two or three mistakes or bad lucks in whole 26 matches result in fact that you are not promoted to better league...