Well done for winning, but for future reference, you best bet is to use any formation with 4 flank players (DL,DR,ML,MR), his tower is his weakness it is far too narrow! any good 4-4-2 classic as you said and 3w-1-4-2 or 4-1-3w-2 or 3-4-3 or 4-3-3 would do the job.