4-4-2 Orders

[Dennis Janosch]

I wonder about this too. Of course it depends on the opponent, as there is no perfect orders for any case. But is there anything really proven right? I really don´t like how anything in T11 is just guessing. One tells you to play this way, another tells you the opposite. It always just depends on perception, on how he personally was succesful in his own case of matchups. As soon as three players agree on a thing a patch changes everything. You can´t really track statistics to see what works well as every match has a different opponent with a different formation. And even when doing friendlies for testing you always see a different performance. I wonder what we really know for sure.

Towards your question:
I tend to play offensive as my opponents are usually weaker. Sometimes a normal playstyle even seems to get me more goals, but it may have been a matter of the opponents orders or just luck. In general, offensive against weaker seems to get me more goals (not really suprising). The default orders are giving me good results, but that may be due to team strength. I go easy on orders and only use them when I think they´re useful. The obvious stuff. If the opponent goes for the middle and exposes his flanks I go "down both flanks", and vice versa. If the opponent has no DL/DR I put red arrows on ML/MR. If the opponent has no Wingers I put red arrows on DL/DR to bring weight to the midfield. If my players are way better in defensive stats than the opponents offensive stats I go for whole pitch pressing to force mistakes. Still I can´t tell for sure if it helps, only know they are tired faster. I have tested a lot. Tried to always field the counter-formation on every single opponent. I analysed opponents down to single players stats, reviewed his last ten matches to see what formations he did good or bad against. Just to see a standard 4-4-2 with default settings gave me better results. Again, I wonder what is really known.