I never had much luck with arrows on DMCs, be it red or blue. I believe that if you need an extra defender you should put an extra defender rather than use blue arrow on a DMC to make him play more defensive. I think that is where you went wrong. 4-1-4-1 is a good way to counter 4-3-3 but an AMC would have been more efficient than DMC. I change my formation to 4-4-1-1 when I face 4-3-3 of similar quality.