Well, I play a 4-5-1 V-Style in most of my matches and I always seem to struggle against the 4-4-2. I either draw or win by a 1-0, 2-1 or 3-1 margin. Seeing as he has a slightly better team than you based on quality what I'd do is implement the 4-5-1 V-Style formation however I'd play more defensively. Set your teams mentality to defensive and put counterattacks on and hope for the best. If he scores early make sure at halftime to change your teams mentality to attack and put arrows on your DMC, AML, AMR and ST. If you still can't manage to score take out a MC and put on another ST.

Best of luck.