General tactical discussion: " flooding" the zone

[Jult52]

I'm borrowing the term "flooding the zone" from American football, where it means attacking a defense by placing one more offensive player in the zone than there are defenders allowing for the offensive player to be free. I have been taking the same approach in Top11. So I try to free up offensive players by forcing a given defensive player to choose between guarding either of my two players.

For example, in attacking a 4-4-2, I place the AMC in the middle of the field with two strikers and two MCs ahead and behind the AMC. Or I attack a formation using 3narrow MCs with a ML-MC-gap-MC-MR to give the wingers a free run (sometimes) at the goal.

But the results are mixed. What are your thoughts about this approach? How do you think about attacking a given defense?

[Brian Dang]

I'm borrowing the term "flooding the zone" from American football, where it means attacking a defense by placing one more offensive player in the zone than there are defenders allowing for the offensive player to be free. I have been taking the same approach in Top11. So I try to free up offensive players by forcing a given defensive player to choose between guarding either of my two players.

For example, in attacking a 4-4-2, I place the AMC in the middle of the field with two strikers and two MCs ahead and behind the AMC. Or I attack a formation using 3narrow MCs with a ML-MC-gap-MC-MR to give the wingers a free run (sometimes) at the goal.

But the results are mixed. What are your thoughts about this approach? How do you think about attacking a given defense?

It's all depend on your team quality vs your opponent...and u will never know how's your opponent using his tactics...If your team quality is stronger, chance of winning is higher and vice versa ...
By theory, to against the team with 4-4-2C ...U can choose 1 of the formations as follows:
- Narrow Diamond
- 4-Dmc-2MCs-3STs
- 4-5-1V
-head to head/toe to toe (4-4-2C vs 4-4-2C)
- Or even 3-5-2 Flat also could do the job if your strategy n tactic is right

It's not meant that U must have AMC to flood them,bro...
But on the other hand, the 4-4-2 C also can win any formation if their team is stronger with nice tactics...