Counter vs unbeaten formation

[BalkanButcher]

You should try the 4-1-3-2 formation. With this formation your DMC will cancel out his AMC, your MC's will win the midfield battle and your two ST's will take advantage of his three wide defenders. Make sure you put red arrows on your DL and DR as you'll be using a counterattacking formation.

Orders:

Team Mentality - Defensive
Focus Passing - Though the middle
Pressing Style - Own Half
Tackling Style - Hard
Passing Style - Long
Marking Style - Zonal

Force counterattacks & no offside trap.

Good luck and post your result later!

[Farfromtilidie]

You should try the 4-1-3-2 formation. With this formation your DMC will cancel out his AMC, your MC's will win the midfield battle and your two ST's will take advantage of his three wide defenders. Make sure you put red arrows on your DL and DR as you'll be using a counterattacking formation.

Orders:

Team Mentality - Defensive
Focus Passing - Though the middle
Pressing Style - Own Half
Tackling Style - Hard
Passing Style - Long
Marking Style - Zonal

Force counterattacks & no offside trap.

Good luck and post your result later!

I forgot to mention, his two CM are beasts (high 7* and an 8*) and are better than my midfielders. I think long balls would be the way to go to lessen the importance of the MF, but in that case shouldn't you aim to play with fewer CMs?

[BalkanButcher]

That's the thing, once your DMC blocks his AMC you have a massive advantage because your three MC's outnumber his two MC's making his team more prone to counterattacks.

All in all, it's your decision. I've used the 4-1-3-2 formation against the 3-1-2-3-1 and won two out of three times. I'm not saying you'll win the game 100% seeing as your opponent is undefeated but why not give it a go? Who knows, you might win and even win by a large margin. This is T11 after all, anything can happen.

[Farfromtilidie]

That's the thing, once your DMC blocks his AMC you have a massive advantage because your three MC's outnumber his two MC's making his team more prone to counterattacks.

All in all, it's your decision. I've used the 4-1-3-2 formation against the 3-1-2-3-1 and won two out of three times. I'm not saying you'll win the game 100% seeing as your opponent is undefeated but why not give it a go? Who knows, you might win and even win by a large margin. This is T11 after all, anything can happen.

I played 3-5-2 with wingbacks in the first game and enjoyed some success (fairly even first half) and I've noticed that most of the games in which he's dropped points this season have been against sides playing three CM, so I take your point regarding that. I like your tactics if I was playing as the away side or needed to defend a lead, can you remember if you were the home side or away in your three matches you used those tactics?

[BalkanButcher]

I won one game at home and one game away. Both games finished 2-0 in my favour. The game that I lost was due to a 4:00 AM fixture where my best DC got a red card and my ST got injured and I ended up losing 2-1. If you're playing away implement the orders I said and if you take the lead and manage to hold on to it during the second half set your teams mentality to "Hard defending" and switch to a 5-3-2 formation to block out his attackers (assuming he goes "Hard attacking").