How to counter 4-4-2

[Philip L. Willis]

Leading my league, facing the second place team, we are equal is almost all aspect, he is slightly stronger in attack I am slightly strongly in defense, he plays 4-4-2 most of the time, but he is also a weird formation manager, a good one.


I'm mostly Narrow Diamond, he knows that, I will play a 3-5-1V against him. But will decide, watching what he is up to 3/4 minutes before play time, "Know your enemy, know yourself"~ Sun Tzu, Art of War. I have home and more than likely possession advantage, my entourage is formidable. Nice to have friends, (Note; Possession will not win you a match, but it doesn't hurt!).


As he is a strange formation player, I may just change to Narrow Diamond, by half time, if I feel uncomfortable. I will waste an AMC by doing that! I do not play players out of position, I'm pretty sure you will loose possession % when you do that. When you are even with the enemy, all the little things matters. Nothing guarantees a win, except luck, not even if you have 2/3 stars over them. We will see in 2 hours!

Well I'd push the time back twice into the next day and he still turned up! LOL... he is on to me, brought his own entourage, not bad and neutralized half of mines. Has only a 7% advantage at home, the worst I have ever had.
He started weird and ended even more weird with his formations, voodoo management, but he still lost. I went with a 4-5-1V and kept it all game. He was expecting a Diamond and the V may have thrown him off. I was lucky.