Real Madrid is also mostly used 4-2-3-1 (4-5-1-w) four defenders, 2 midfielders, 1 amc, 1 aml, 1 amr and 1 striker.
Chelsea also using the same formation like Real Madrid so from my point of view the best counter attacking formation is 4-5-1

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