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[Roo]

Yeah that's the formation alright, if I play down the middle will he not catch me on the wings with the wide players? Frustrating to play against but struggled to find the right formation against him and I have to play him 4 times at least this season

[fadhul17]

which formation have you used?

[Master Tactician]

If you play with fullbacks+ wingers and through the flanks you'll outnumber him. If you play with 3 AMs you'll put pressure everywhere

[fadhul17]

If you play with fullbacks+ wingers and through the flanks you'll outnumber him. If you play with 3 ACs you'll put pressure everywhere

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[Master Tactician]

thnx dude. You can add me here. AMs, btw not ACs :P

[Master Tactician]

Well, he can attack from everywhere. It depends on his players and formation. If he has good MCs and AMC then he can easily go through middle. It just has to be highlighted that with only 1 player in each flank, there is a chance to create 2-1 situations through the flanks.

On my view, this kind of formation-tactic (deep defense, with 5(!) defenders and 2 MCs defending--> 2 rows of defenders), own half pressing, etc is old, boring and very very vulnerable to modern football, like 4-3-2-1 christmass tree, 3-1-4-2,butterflies, even 4-4-2s etc. There are chances that these kind of tactics can work (eg Greece euro 2004), but only in some cases during a match or in cases where you want to control the score. Never as a main formation for a whole season. It doesn't work on professional football and I can't see why it can work in Top Eleven.

[tziortz]

Well, he can attack from everywhere. It depends on his players and formation. If he has good MCs and AMC then he can easily go through middle. It just has to be highlighted that with only 1 player in each flank, there is a chance to create 2-1 situations through the flanks.

On my view, this kind of formation-tactic (deep defense, with 5(!) defenders and 2 MCs defending--> 2 rows of defenders), own half pressing, etc is old, boring and very very vulnerable to modern football, like 4-3-2-1 christmass tree, 3-1-4-2,butterflies, even 4-4-2s etc. There are chances that these kind of tactics can work (eg Greece euro 2004), but only in some cases during a match or in cases where you want to control the score. Never as a main formation for a whole season. It doesn't work on professional football and I can't see why it can work in Top Eleven.

Last season the champion in my league was using a 3N-3W-2N-1-1,even more defensive, he won the title unbeaten and with a goal difference of 110, also won the champions league with only one defeat 1-0.

[Roo]

Thanks for this info, his amc and striker are pretty good probably his 2 best players and a good dmr so I was thinking he attacks through the middle and leaves the dmr/dml to just defend so he is kind of using 5 at the back. He used it all last season and won the league with it and hasn't lost a game yet this season! I beat him with his own formation away but he beat me when I used 451v style and my team is about 5.0 better. It just seems to work against teams

[Roo]

Cheers for the tips lads il post results up tommoro after the game

[Roo]

Went with 3w-1-4-2 and went 1 nil down and possession was even enough and in 60th minute went with 4-4-2 and scored twice in 5 minutes but never dominated the game so I can't say either are that effective against that formation!! I have him again tonight and I'm going with 4-5-1 v style defensive counter attack down flanks and I'm away so I think it might work!! Doesn't matter I'm still goin to qualify from the group it's just a bit of experimenting wit formations now