How to Win Against Any Formation?

[Potemy]

Hey guys! any tip or help will be much appreciated!

I am facing a really hard challenge! My opponent score is 55, mine 33... 22 points difference! I know its almost impossible, but even having a 1% chance to win i wanna go for it!

My opponent's formation is:

This will give him a really strong middle field and quite strong attack, thou he has a more or leas weak defence. As he is kinda stronger than me, i know he wont think i am a challenge, so he will have attacking mentality, down both flanks, mixed and no counter, maybe offside trap.

To beat this, i was thinking of a defensive formation, i may be able to stop him this way and be lucky and score one (maybe not, but maybe yes). Something like 5-3-2 wide, played in hard defending, through the flanks, long passing (or mixed, not sure), counter, own half. What you think, may this work? I know i have few chances, but i wanna enhance my chances to the max!!

Thank you for your replies!!

Looking at his formation, he will be most exposed to ML and MR or AML and AMR and a lone ST. You could even have all 5, and then your defence will be 3 DCs and 2 blue arrow DMCs. No matter what, you will have defensive mentality, hard tackling and long passing.

[DarioDA]

Looking at his formation, he will be most exposed to ML and MR or AML and AMR and a lone ST. You could even have all 5, and then your defence will be 3 DCs and 2 blue arrow DMCs. No matter what, you will have defensive mentality, hard tackling and long passing.

Yesss... but with 3 DC and 2DMC's i will leave my flanks exposed on def, as he has AMR AML, i have to protect the flanks! As i said i will have MR ML, both with red arrows for counters (i may even put the MC with red ups or make it AMC). Hard tacling, good idea, i have nothing to loose and all to win, ty for the tip If i qualify for the next round i will have for maybe 1 or 2 more players then! ^_^

[Potemy]

Yesss... but with 3 DC and 2DMC's i will leave my flanks exposed on def, as he has AMR AML, i have to protect the flanks! As i said i will have MR ML, both with red arrows for counters (i may even put the MC with red ups or make it AMC). Hard tacling, good idea, i have nothing to loose and all to win, ty for the tip If i qualify for the next round i will have for maybe 1 or 2 more players then! ^_^

No, use zonal marking, so his AMs are covered by your side DCs and DMCs, and wide midfielders. No red arrow on your MC, only on the flanks since that is where you will attack.

[Gustlik89]

How to win against that formation:
GK
DC-DC-DC
DMC
MC-MC
AMC
ST-ST-ST
I play with them today at 7 p.m.

[Potemy]

How to win against that formation:
GK
DC-DC-DC
DMC
MC-MC
AMC
ST-ST-ST
I play with them today at 7 p.m.

Any formation will do, I would say 3 DCs with a DMC to cover, and then you can attack however you want, just make sure your formation is legal! His is illegal with no wide players so you will have 80% possession, no need to have too many defenders, just the minimum for the rare occasions when he has the ball.

[DarioDA]

How to win against that formation:
GK
DC-DC-DC
DMC
MC-MC
AMC
ST-ST-ST
I play with them today at 7 p.m.

Its an illegal formation as no wings are there... You will have 80% possession, for this, focus in defending the middle and attack the flanks, a 4-5-1 V should work quite well against it, with AMs motivated (not the DMC thou), mixed, both flanks, attacking/defending depending on levels, own half. But im kinda noob (lvl 4, just won 3 leagues and 1 champions), so wait for more experienced responses

Probably butterfly will work good too (3-2-2-2-1) 3 DC, DMR, DML, 2 MC, AML, AMR, ST with AMs motivated, same orders.

[DarioDA]

No, use zonal marking, so his AMs are covered by your side DCs and DMCs, and wide midfielders. No red arrow on your MC, only on the flanks since that is where you will attack.

Ah okok! Got it, even without wingers i will have a DC and a DMC covering the flanks... good, kinda the same, but i put the pressure a bit more up (which i am not sure as he is really strong in the midfield and putting the pressure so up may be counterproductive). Maybe i should put down arrows in the DMC? Even in the MC? Ty for the help!

[Potemy]

Ah okok! Got it, even without wingers i will have a DC and a DMC covering the flanks... good, kinda the same, but i put the pressure a bit more up (which i am not sure as he is really strong in the midfield and putting the pressure so up may be counterproductive). Maybe i should put down arrows in the DMC? Even in the MC? Ty for the help!

I would say yes, blue down arrows for MCs and DMCs, the only red arrows should be on your wide players, AML, AMR, ML, MR, whichever players you have of these should have red arrows. Again, defensive, down both flanks, own half, hard tackling, long passing, zonal, no counter, no offsides.

My suggestion is actually the below:
---------ST----------
AML--------------AMR
ML----------------MR
----DMC------DMC---
----DC---DC---DC----

You are free to rearrange it, maybe move ML and MR to MC so that you have more players with blue arrows. If any players are on the wings, you must put red arrows on them. I suggest blue arrows for all midfielders except red arrows for wide players, no arrows for goalkeeper, defenders and strikers.

[Gustlik89]

**** I wrote that he play 3 DC's
sorry my mistake he play DL-DC-DR

[Potemy]

**** I wrote that he play 3 DC's
sorry my mistake he play DL-DC-DR

Alright, so a 3-4-3 narrow diamond. Quite similar to the 4-4-2 narrow diamond, the extra ST is placed in between the two other STs so easily marked, and the defence is weaker. Adel's counter for the 4-4-2 narrow diamond is somewhere on the first page of this thread, just use that.