How to Win Against Any Formation?

[Adel Gamal]

Hi guys,

I've searched this forum (and the old one) for a formation to counter or at least to try to play well against a good 3-2-2-2-1 like the one below, but I didn't find any answers. So please, can anybody come with some ideas? Thanks in advance.

------DC-DC-DC------
-DMR------------DML-
------MC----MC------
-AMR------------AML-
----------ST----------


Now, in my particular case, I think this team plays defensive+counter all the time (35%-50% possession) and his goals in the league are scored by many different players either from wings or from the centre, even by the defenders. Except for a few couple of games when scored 4 and 6 goals, this team scored about 1-2 goals per match and having a good defence seemed enough so far cause nobody defeat it yet.

4 4 1 1 with defensive mentality ... short passing ... down both flanks ... own half ... counter attack ... no offside trap.

[Dorin Marinescu]

4 4 1 1 with defensive mentality ... short passing ... down both flanks ... own half ... counter attack ... no offside trap.

Thank you for your answer. So 4-4-1-1 is the only solution to counter 3-2-2-2-1? Isn't better to use mixed or long passing with defensive mentality and counter attack?

[Adel Gamal]

Thank you for your answer. So 4-4-1-1 is the only solution to counter 3-2-2-2-1? Isn't better to use mixed or long passing with defensive mentality and counter attack?

4 4 2 classic best used by short passing to control the mid .

but if you are online and saw that this not working you can switch to long passing ... but if you were offline then use short passing .

[Dorin Marinescu]

Adel, thanks a lot for your help.
Happy new year for you all guys!