Important Cup Match against Stronger Team, need help ASAP!

[pcmacdaniel]

I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.

Regarding what went wrong, I think you did quite well, keeping it as competitive as it was. Your opponent was a massive token buyer whose team was stronger and more versatile. Since he watched the match, you were going to need a little bit of luck to advance (or him screwing something up).

As for formations, against the X-Mas Tree, the table of counter formations suggest the 3w-2n-3n-1-1 Eiffel Tower, so that or something similar that could cover the AMC's and exploit his lack of central midfield defense (3w-2n-2n-1-2 or 4-1-2-1-2 ND, etc...) most likely would have worked better there. However, considering how many of his players have duel and triple roles he most likely would have changed to something else.