Originally Posted by
Morgan O'Bree
I'll be frank but please do not take it as showing off. In 7 seasons, it happened twice to me to be pressured instead of pressuring the opponents: once was when i lost 2-0 home in cup this season, and once was last season's second leg's first half against Kaiserslauten. While in the first case i was working and couldn't do jack ****, in the second case i was facing a 4-3-3 with a 4-4-2 classic which wasn't working like in the first leg, so i thought that even having one more MC wasn't enough, as well as my defenders were probably suffering: i picked one MC of the two i had (the one which was shown as "committing fouls" and "refuging in corner kick" and subbed him, while i also subbed my 7* DC which wasn't mentioned once on their attacks. In the second half i squashed him and went from 2-0 to 2-3.
Against stronger teams, i never once was being outplayed, rather i've outplayed alwais them apart from the usual 5-10 mins per time in which your pressure has to diminish.
Finally, to answer your question, i usually sub one of my ST (my 3 subs are alwais: ST, MC, one between DC or a AM) as to have fresh men on the pitch, and if that isn't enough, i move the MR/ML to AMs, and turn to man to man marking and hard tackling. I never change into offensive type as when you suffer, you're likely to take in a counter.
As golden rule, i can tell you that whenever i face teams 8+ Q lower than me and the pressure bar isn't at about 65% or more on my favour, then that's a sign something is wrong with either a player or the module.