4-4-2 Diamond Tactics?

So far I'm in Season 3, played a standard 4-4-2 up to now with both wingers set to run forward and team tactics set as:

Team Mentality: Normal
Focus Passing: Down Both Flanks
Pressing Style: Own Half
Tackling Style: Normal
Passing Style: Short
Marking Style: Zonal

Counter Attacks: No
Offside Trap: No

I've blitzed the leagues, and got to finals of both cup competitions, however I have now switched to a 4-4-2 diamond and was wondering if I should change my tactics in anyway?

Obviously currently I am focused on wing play, but as my team has progressed it's ended up that my wingers are my weakest position so its probably not a good idea anymore to rely on them?

Any help would be appreciated

Are you Narrow or wide diamond?

Wide diamond but have players to do narrow too

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Originally Posted by Adam William Atkinson

Wide diamond but have players to do narrow too

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ND more invisible, bro.. go for it if you are the one only stick to one formation...

What do you mean by more invisible?

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Originally Posted by Adam William Atkinson

What do you mean by more invisible?

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Meant chance of winning matches higher...At level 6-7...few season back.. Our favorite formation also ND..My biggest achievement so far for 1 of our 3 teams: Team Winning 11 (Now level 10) was also at level 7 with Double Champion and 2nd place in CUP with Narrow Diamond mostly (ofcoz sometimes facing too strong team or funny formation then u MUST switch or adapt another formation)...
How w played: Attacking/through the middle/hard tackle/mix or short passing/no offside/no counter/
Depend on the opponent I have blue or red arrow on DMC but always red on AMC...

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Originally Posted by Adam William Atkinson

So far I'm in Season 3, played a standard 4-4-2 up to now with both wingers set to run forward and team tactics set as:

Team Mentality: Normal
Focus Passing: Down Both Flanks
Pressing Style: Own Half
Tackling Style: Normal
Passing Style: Short
Marking Style: Zonal

Counter Attacks: No
Offside Trap: No

I've blitzed the leagues, and got to finals of both cup competitions, however I have now switched to a 4-4-2 diamond and was wondering if I should change my tactics in anyway?

Obviously currently I am focused on wing play, but as my team has progressed it's ended up that my wingers are my weakest position so its probably not a good idea anymore to rely on them?

Any help would be appreciated

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Focus Passing: Mixed
Passing Style: Mixed

This wont be bad to if u change because u have players in every place of the field and it will be a good thing if u try them.

Focus Passing: Down Both Flanks it a good order if u are playing against a team with formation that has a just DL and DR or DML and DMR or ML and MR or AML and AMR.

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Originally Posted by Brian Dang

Meant chance of winning matches higher...At level 6-7...few season back.. Our favorite formation also ND..My biggest achievement so far for 1 of our 3 teams: Team Winning 11 (Now level 10) was also at level 7 with Double Champion and 2nd place in CUP with Narrow Diamond mostly (ofcoz sometimes facing too strong team or funny formation then u MUST switch or adapt another formation)...
How w played: Attacking/through the middle/hard tackle/mix or short passing/no offside/no counter/
Depend on the opponent I have blue or red arrow on DMC but always red on AMC...

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Ahh sorry I thought with a 4-3-2-1 you meant DL - DC x 2 - DR - MC x 3 - AML - AMR - ST.

Is it only the MC x 2 and 1 AMC then?

Will try it out in a Friendly game before I play my league game later on today.

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Originally Posted by IGOR

Focus Passing: Mixed
Passing Style: Mixed

This wont be bad to if u change because u have players in every place of the field and it will be a good thing if u try them.

Focus Passing: Down Both Flanks it a good order if u are playing against a team with formation that has a just DL and DR or DML and DMR or ML and MR or AML and AMR.

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Thanks will try that out too :)

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Originally Posted by Adam William Atkinson

Ahh sorry I thought with a 4-3-2-1 you meant DL - DC x 2 - DR - MC x 3 - AML - AMR - ST.

Is it only the MC x 2 and 1 AMC then?

Will try it out in a Friendly game before I play my league game later on today.

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Actually ignore that, I was trying a 4-3-2-1 out and got it all completely mixed up with this tactic haha. Sorry

I played a 4-4D-2 (Wide) with a red forward arrow on the DMC only. I had lots of success, but this was at the lower levels. I play mostly a 4-5V-1 now. Also, I have trouble buying really awesome strikers, lol.

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Originally Posted by Cody Allan Taylor

I played a 4-4D-2 (Wide) with a red forward arrow on the DMC only. I had lots of success, but this was at the lower levels. I play mostly a 4-5V-1 now. Also, I have trouble buying really awesome strikers, lol.

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Well season 1 and 2 I played flat 4-4-2 with red arrows on ML and MR, blizted everything like I said, except Cup final where I narrowly lost. So far in season 3 I've mainly used a 3N-1-3W-1-2 and a now this 4-4-2 narrow diamond. There are alot of low quality teams in my league compared to me, my average quality is 33.3, whereas my opponents range from early teens to 26 I think. So its hard to tell against these opponents if my tactics are good or not. The cup competitions have been alot different due to opponents being of similar quality, currently in Semi-Finals of both, Champs League has seen narrow victories, but in the Cup for the first 3 round I went through on away goals each time. First leg of semi-final finished 3-3 so want to get a tactic sorted for the second leg.

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Originally Posted by Adam William Atkinson

Well season 1 and 2 I played flat 4-4-2 with red arrows on ML and MR, blizted everything like I said, except Cup final where I narrowly lost. So far in season 3 I've mainly used a 3N-1-3W-1-2 and a now this 4-4-2 narrow diamond. There are alot of low quality teams in my league compared to me, my average quality is 33.3, whereas my opponents range from early teens to 26 I think. So its hard to tell against these opponents if my tactics are good or not. The cup competitions have been alot different due to opponents being of similar quality, currently in Semi-Finals of both, Champs League has seen narrow victories, but in the Cup for the first 3 round I went through on away goals each time. First leg of semi-final finished 3-3 so want to get a tactic sorted for the second leg.

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Send friend requests to your cup opponents after you face them. Top Eleven tries to create a league with as many friends as possible (I've had 6 or 7 "friends" the past three seasons). Note that you won't win league very often and will make winning a triple crown near impossible, but you'll have more fun in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Cody Allan Taylor

Send friend requests to your cup opponents after you face them. Top Eleven tries to create a league with as many friends as possible (I've had 6 or 7 "friends" the past three seasons). Note that you won't win league very often and will make winning a triple crown near impossible, but you'll have more fun in my opinion.

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Ahh I didn't know that, thanks for the tip :)

Yeah winning everything constantly would be boring tbh, so would be good to be in a really competitive league!

I have gained about 8 'friends' so far this season alone, 1 of which I'm currently against in Champions League, so hopefully a few of them will be in my League next season!

What level are you at right now?

I play at level 6 with Foresters and level 3 with Guide FC. See my team showcase for both :)

Guide FC I'm purposely not adding too many friends and I still have a token buyer in that league :/ pooo.

It's a waste not to attack or even hard attack playing a ND, why bother! if you play neutral play a 4-4-2 Classic, already!