I need advice how to beat opponent. Very detailed info attached

[beat_them]

Hello everyone.

I'm playing top eleven for almost 1 year, but I didn't spend a lot of time on advanced tacticts and trainings during that time. I just tried to collect team with players with as much stars as possible, I won some trophies, but as I noticed recently sometimes it doesn't help and I didn't win any trophies for a while. So, I started to explore how to improve players, I learned about fast trainers, white/grey skills, 180% rule and so on, so I have some basic knowledge how to progress my team in right way.

BUT, the last two seasons I faced with another problem - I noticed that sometimes when you have better team, ideal preparation, you can't beat opponent and I think the reason is - tactic and formation. So, raising this topic, I want to get idea what was wrong with my tactic/formation in these games.


We are in the same league with this opponent, two seasons in row, so we played 4 times for last two seasons and I lost all 4 matches. All 4 times he used the same (or very similar) formation.

All 4 mathces I used the same formation ,just because these players are my the best players:
DL-DC-DC-DR-DMC-MC-MR-ML(AML)-AMC-ST

First 3 mathces I played this tactic: Attacking, Down both Flanks, Passing mixed, Force counter-attacks on, Hard pressing, Normal/Hard tackling, Zonal marking style, Offside On

The last 4th match I tried different: Defensife, Down both Flanks, Passing short, Force counter-attacks on, Hard pressing, Normal tackling, Man-to-Man marking style, Offside On

Fans support in all 4 games were very close, last game support was on my side. Preparation superb

Here is my team and my top 11 players

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Opponent team

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How we played last time

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I just don't know what exactly I missed, why my team lost all 4 matches?

[Sillybq]

For formations, i use this link for counter formations.

https://forum.topeleven.com/tutorial...on-use-92.html

For tactics, gotta change it during the match based on what you see in animations and statistics.


Not much difference between you and him but i’d say his players have higher white skills.

[beat_them]

For formations, i use this link for counter formations.

https://forum.topeleven.com/tutorial...on-use-92.html

For tactics, gotta change it during the match based on what you see in animations and statistics.


Not much difference between you and him but i’d say his players have higher white skills.

Ok, thanks for answer. Next time I'll check formations more detaily. What is funny - I'll play with this guy 3d season in row , lol. The only difference - this season I'll play with him in Champions league, but who knows, maybe tomorrow I'll see him in League too