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

**beat_them** · 07-10-2022

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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