I played many good games against this with 4-1-4-1 or 4-5-1V. Mostly: Normal style, short pass, zonal, attack flanks, no/yes counter, arrows dc and dmc down, flank players up.
But this was agaist similar/weaker quality. Maybe you should play defence or hard defence with counters and long balls or mixed. Same formation or 5-1-1-2flanks-1