Cannot beat 4-2-2-2

[Accyrover]

I am not losing almost any games except to a friend who is playing 4-2-2-2 with default settings.
We are same level and have approx same quality. Any suggestions on how to beat him?

Which 4-2-2-2 there are more than one combination of the four central players which are wide and central.

If you mean like this:

DL--DC-DC--DR
----MC-MC----
AML--------AMR
------ST--ST----

Then:

-----------ST----------
AML-------------AMR
--------MC-MC-----
DML------------DMR
-----DC-DC-DC-----

All flat no arrows, or as above the V formation, both work well but I have more success with the butterfly, it's undefeated this season against five different formations. When someone counters it I'll change to .........

Then again you could read this:

http://forum.topeleven.com/tutorials...formation.html