41212 Narrow Diamond - need advice with arrows and orders

[pcmacdaniel]

Narrow Diamond. The following order/arrow pair is how I setup my narrow diamond. I'm sure others have successful diamond with slight variations. The most important thing about the narrow diamond is its an attacking formation, so playing a defensive setup is not advisable. Maybe, you could get away with a normal mentality, but for me its always attacking with this formation.

Orders: Attacking, through the middle, whole pitch pressing, hard tackle, short passing, zonal, no counter, no offsides

Arrows: Reds on DL, DR, DMC, Both MC's and AMC.

There are plenty of other good formations you could run, such as the 3-5-2 V, mentioned above. 4-2-2-2 hexagon is another you could setup.