I would probably run 3N-1-3W-1-2, with attacking/middle/hard/own half/mixed. The STs would be slightly off centre (This would take 1 of your 6* DL/DR out of the equation), and if there was a decent quality difference in your MCs/ML/MR I'd maybe move my AMC off centre as well. Alternatively I might drop 1x ST and replace him with a MC, making my formation 3N-1-4-1-1 (I'd maybe swap between these, depending on how possession was looking)

Concentrating the attack up the middle would give my STs a fair chance against your defenders, as it'd be either 2x STs + 1x AMC vs 3x Defenders, or 1x ST + 1x AMC vs 2x DCs, depending on which of the above formations I was running.

Having 3x midfielders +DMC+AMC would likely give me equal possession, if I ran 2x MC+ML+MR, my use of both an AMC + DMC would likely give me a slight possession advantage.

Your ST would have 4x men marking him and your AMC would have those same 4 + 1x midfielder on him (2 if I was running 4 midfielders). So I would hope that I'd have your attack relatively contained.

Of course, your players would smash mine, since I'm lvl 3 & only around 29 average quality, while I assume you're around 40 quality. But then, you'll smash almost anyone you go up against since you've brought thousands of tokens at such a low level.

How are you doing in the cup? I'm level 3 ,and at the start of the season had a roughly 4 star team, I got put into a lvl 6 cup. I'd imagine that being lvl 4 + having a much better quality team, that you'd have probably been drawn into a lvl 8 cup? Or did you only buy most of your players this season?

As unless you've only invested very heavily in players this season, you should be going up against teams are of a similar quality in the cup, which would give you a much better idea of where you fit into the grand scheme of things as a manager.