counter a 3-5-2 flat with a very strong midfielder

Hi Everybody,

tomorrow I will play my cup quarterfinal (2nd level for me - 4th lever for him)

He play a 3-5-2 FLAT. I already decide to play butterfly formation to counter him.

I only have one doubt: we have similar players (28-31 average), mine are a little bit better but he has a monster CC (monster for my standards of course) 41 average.

How this can change the situation? what do you suggest me to do?

I would play normal-hard tackling-whole pitch-both flanks-mixed passing-no counter-zonal.

Do I have to change something because of his 41 average CC?

Maybe counter with long passing?

Thanks

you are right with long passing. against 3-5-2 it is the best way to kick the ball over the mid-line. Dont be scary for only one better player. attack the flanks. so butterfly can be a good choice. good luck for you

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Originally Posted by Ricardo82

you are right with long passing. against 3-5-2 it is the best way to kick the ball over the mid-line. Dont be scary for only one better player. attack the flanks. so butterfly can be a good choice. good luck for you

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Hi Ricardo ..I hear u mention about long passing...what is the situation that we usually should use long passing ? Vs strong midfield ?

when there is a flat midfield, without AMs or DMs, you have space in front and behind them, so what you do is use long passing to just pass over them to your attackers

4-3-2(aml/amr)-1

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Originally Posted by pavel84

Hi Everybody,

tomorrow I will play my cup quarterfinal (2nd level for me - 4th lever for him)

He play a 3-5-2 FLAT. I already decide to play butterfly formation to counter him.

I only have one doubt: we have similar players (28-31 average), mine are a little bit better but he has a monster CC (monster for my standards of course) 41 average.

How this can change the situation? what do you suggest me to do?

I would play normal-hard tackling-whole pitch-both flanks-mixed passing-no counter-zonal.

Do I have to change something because of his 41 average CC?

Maybe counter with long passing?

Thanks

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Stay away from Cuckoo advice, that comes with no reasoning, explanation or justification , just some weird formation that you just follow like religion or something. PEACE!

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Originally Posted by RJSlow

when there is a flat midfield, without AMs or DMs, you have space in front and behind them, so what you do is use long passing to just pass over them to your attackers

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Hey RJ, Im planning to use 3-5-2 against a 4-5-1 flat during my CL quart finals. What do you think?
Ive read thread that 4-5-1v to counter but most of them fails.
What about arrows and settings?

butterfly,easy

4-3-2-1 I think it's nice or 3n-1-4-1-1 second choice.he haven't dl Dr and say "come it's free"the job for goods aml,amr

Don't play whole pitch this!!!General if you are much better from him you play whole pitch with attacking mentality and sometimes you need to play offside trap(for zone).if you play man to man with attacking mentality and whole pitch the counter attack and offside trap is off

the best formation against 3n-5-2 is 4-3n-2-1. I beat a team far stronger than mine 8-2 today itself. (he had seven 6 star and other 5 star players while I had two 4 star and other 5 star players). if u don't have AML or AMR u can use 4-5-1 formation with red arrows on ML and MR. tactics are as follows:

mentality-normal
focus passing - down both flanks
pressing style- own half
tackling style- hard
passing style- mixed
marking style- zonal
offside trap- no
counter attack - yes

avg team rating 116.1 : 118.9

my team was 116.1

How about counter to 3w 5 2 ?