Northland on is red,sorry for the delay for the answer.but here u go.
He has a good back four.
He has a wide midfield three with only one guy in central midfield.
He has two strikers so u need a back four.
He has DMC so playing AMC is useless.
His main weakness is through the middle.hence play formation like 4-3n-2w-1 or 4-4-2 which has good number of players in midfield(more than him)and also which gives u option to go down flanks if thru the middle is not working.

Btw right now ur thinking process is exactly like mine.