dont play defensively coz then you are letting him attack and you have only one DM and no DR/DL against his AML/AMC/AMR

I would go with DC's, 1 DML and 1 DMR. Then i'd use 3 MC's with one of them having a blue arrow (down arrow) to help out against his AMC.

---dc-dc-dc---
dmr-------dml
--mc-mc-mc--
-----AMC-----
------ST------

attackking mode, through the middle, zonal marking with mixed passing