Offline strategy

[Christian Christiansen]

omg, how do you not get it... It doesn't have MC but it has 4 midfielders in total (yellow players). If you set up a formation with only 2 midfielders (yellow players) they must me MCs.

I think I saw the confusion here. I understand what you are saying now... You include ML,MR,DMC,DMC,DMR,AMC,AMR and AML In Midfielders(MCs) So that way you are right you need at least 2 so it is not illegal... I didn't know that you include all midfielders In MCs

[Buffs Mad]

For a true offline strategy (ie one where your not able to check for a few days) to work it needs, imo, to be a balanced formation which offers a chance to cope with whatever the opposition throws at you. A formation that has a less obvious counter. A formation that is too focused on the middle or the flanks or is weak defending in one or the other can be exploited. Ofc if your side is OP then anything will do.

I'd think Maple Leaf and 4-4-2 are decent options but this is all in the context that being offline is risky anyway. My ickle 3rdteam is doing not bad using 4-4-2 in a semi-offline troll-mode. My 2nd team gets so many injuries atm it would fail with any offline strategy.

[Marco Brown]

Nice conversation. Formation established, now what order and arrows would you give your team? Would you have them play defensive, normal or attacking, normal tackle or hard tackle and if where would you put arrows?

[Buffs Mad]

For a 4-4-2 Counter attacking set up I do:

Defensive, Down Both Flanks, Whole Pitch Press, Hard Tackling, Mixed Passing, Zonal, Force Counter, no Offside trap. With ML & MR motivated forward.

But this set up is also because there are 4 sides with > 5Q advantage so that's a factor in my choice too. But I'm still testing this so can't say its ideal yet: 10 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss (lost last night when I watched a game and fiddled ). Currently 4th, 2pts off top, 1 off 2nd, gd behind 3rd.

So you can probably discount this - just offering it to get stage 2 discussion going.

[Marco Brown]

For a 4-4-2 Counter attacking set up I do:

Defensive, Down Both Flanks, Whole Pitch Press, Hard Tackling, Mixed Passing, Zonal, Force Counter, no Offside trap. With ML & MR motivated forward.

But this set up is also because there are 4 sides with > 5Q advantage so that's a factor in my choice too. But I'm still testing this so can't say its ideal yet: 10 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss (lost last night when I watched a game and fiddled ). Currently 4th, 2pts off top, 1 off 2nd, gd behind 3rd.

So you can probably discount this - just offering it to get stage 2 discussion going.

That is not bad at all, 10 wins, 4 draws and only 1 loss. Nice for playing offline.