Important Cup Match against Stronger Team, need help ASAP!

[pcmacdaniel]

1-1 draw isn't a bad result.

Regarding countering him, your best bet is to setup with most versatile setup you can. If he's active (watching the match) high versatility will enable you to change your formation during the live match with minimal substitutions. This is important because with in-game formations you don't want to be in scenario where you need to respond to his formation change with more substitutions than him. If he's able to use less subs than you in changing formation, he'll be able to counter you no matter what you do (assuming he knows what the correct counters are).

With in-match formation adjustments you'll also force him to think on his feet. It's one thing to identify a counter-formation/strategy if you have hours to prepare one. With increased versatility, he'll lose the luxury of stuff like asking for a counter-strategy on a forum like this one, instead having to identify one all by himself on the fly. Basically, you'll be creating a battle of wits, a chess match of sorts where he won't be able to phone a friend to identify a way out of his mess. Hopefully, he doesn't have a great grasp on counter-formations, etc... and you'll send his cup dreams crashing with an early exit.

Also, max condition, morale and win bonus. I don't normally recommend max morale because of the blue pack cost, but considering your opponent has a roster consisting of 22 scout list players, its a relative safe assumption he has the funds to put all players on max everything! From my experience, there is a big difference is how my team plays if all players are on "max morale" instead of "superb but not max morale."