
Originally Posted by
gizzmo
If it was easy to beat 4-5-1V, I would not be playing it for 32 seasons onwards. The tactics given above are good but not guaranteed. The best thing to do is to force your oppo to switch to something else (put your players in 4-3-3 for instance) and, at the last second, reverse to your prefered tactic. Like 4-4-2, 4-5-1V has no obvious counter. To my experience, I'm having very hard times against 4-2-3W-1 for instance. So bad that I do not play 4-5-1V against this anymore.