Need tactical help

Hi fellow Top-Eleven friends.

I´ve been playing this game ofr 1,5 month now and i have a decent team. Average quality is 43.

However im against a team with average on 32, and first game today ended 3-3 at my home stage. Hes playing 4-1-2-1-2 (Wide Diamond). I have a much better team than him, but i had really hard time against that tactic, and last year i went out against that kind of formation yet again even tough i had 14 more in average quality.

Can anyone help me to overcome this tactical fail from my side ? My current tactic is 4-1-2-2-1 (Butterflyish) Like a V.
I´ve also tried 3-5-2 (Flat) against that formation aswell without sucess earlier.

Please i need some help. Can anyone suggest something good ? Player wise i have much stronger team, but 3-3 today and he had more shots on goal, and so on.

Cincerely

From my experience, there is one formation that can destroy the "diamond"..it is a bit weird but it looks like this..
-------st-------
---amc---------
---mc-mc-mc---
------dmc------
--dl-dc--dc-dr--
maybe you can try this?

And how about orders ? Mentality and passing, and marking and so on ?

normal, focus pass-middle, pressing own half, passing-mixed/long, tackling-depends to your possession, force counter attack, marking-zonal. good luck!

Anyone else with some ideas ?

Wide diamond plays back to front. You need a solid base, 2 centre backs, an anchorman(def mid), and full-backs without arrows to account for his wide midfielders. So you've sorted the defence, now how do you break him down? 2 central midfielders and 3 strikers. Play attacking(hard attacking if you're chasing the game), focus mixed(NOT middle), press whole pitch, man-marking, offside trap. Play short passing as you're looking for your central midfielders to boss midfield. If you go hard attacking during the game, switch to hard tackling as well.

Can u please make it like a formation cuz i cant figure out what you menar ? like 4-3-2-1, like that but in your way ?

4-1-2-2-1. 4 defenders, 1 defensive midfielder, 2 central midfielders, 3 central strikers. Since you have a much stronger team, you could actually go hard attacking and hard tackling right from the off. He won't create a peep against your back 5. You'll just run the show throughout.

Ok, so you mean 4-1-2-3 or 4 defenders, 1 defensive midfielder, 2 central midfielders, 2 central offensive midfielders and 1 central striker ?

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Originally Posted by Lujje

Ok, so you mean 4-1-2-3 or 4 defenders, 1 defensive midfielder, 2 central midfielders, 2 central offensive midfielders and 1 central striker ?

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No, he means what he said. 4 defenders, 1 defensive midfielder, 2 central midfielders, 3 central strikers

Not sure what he said both to be honest... but 3 strikers is pretty decent against it.

I see, dont u think a 4-1-2-1-2 (Narrow Diamond) would be really good against him also ? With mixed passing, offensive style of play, Hard tackling, Offside traps and pressure on the whole pitch ?

why would you want to use hard tackling against the longball speedsters?

See how far his players are apart? They depend on kick and rush with long highballs, you don't want offside trap.
I like this, but up to you"

ST
AMC AMR
ML MC
DMC

DL DC DC DR *mixed passing, mixed focus, whole pitch pressing but only use normal or easy tackling, no offside, yes
counter. You want to frustrate him and break his formation then counter, don't use short passing.
This formation has a player in every line horizontally and vertically, you wont be afraid of pace whores.

Cheers.

Ok but like this ?

*,S,*
*,*,AMC,*,AMR
ML,*,*,MC,**
DL,DC*DC,DR

The * stands for position which are empty. So i understand the formation correctly ?

Ok but like this ?

*,S,*
*,*,AMC,*,AMR
ML,*,MC,**
DL,DC*DC,DR

Correction :D

The * stands for position which are empty. So i understand the formation correctly ?

Rob8 : Used your guidance, and it failed hard. 2-0 for him. This is so dissapointing