how to beat5-4-1 formation

[Sharen Lau]

How to beat win 5-4-1 formation with quality 42 and my quality 45?? Pls help me..

[Saransh Vatsa]

Play 4-3N-1-2 attacking through the middle, mixed ball, press own half, no counter or offside, hard tackling and zonal marking. Blue arrows on DCs. Red arrow on AMC. If u want red arrows on DL/DR aswell.
I think even 4-4-2 shall work.
All the best and wait for advice from more experienced managers.
All the best and post or result.

[Mohamed Sultan]

The opponent playing with one striker, so I suggest you try

.....DC..DC..DC.....
..........DMC..........
MR...MC....MC....ML
...........................
.......ST.....ST........
Red arrows on center defender, DMC and both MC. Attacking through middle, Mixed passing, whole pitch, hard tackling, Man-on-Man. I have tried it against 451V today and won 3-0.

My team's Quality is 46 and the opponent was 36.8

If U use this formation and orders please post the result later.

[dv8r]

The opponent playing with one striker, so I suggest you try

.....DC..DC..DC.....
..........DMC..........
MR...MC....MC....ML
...........................
.......ST.....ST........
Red arrows on center defender, DMC and both MC. Attacking through middle, Mixed passing, whole pitch, hard tackling, Man-on-Man. I have tried it against 451V today and won 3-0.

My team's Quality is 46 and the opponent was 36.8

If U use this formation and orders please post the result later.

It's not "countering" if the quality difference was that high, it just means your players were better. I highly doubt that your formation would even scratch an evenly matched team with AML/AMR when playing without any wing defence whatsoever.

[Marc Symons]

I think its retarded the way you need top change formations in order to beat other formations. I keep the same formation each game regardless and win 95% of the time.

[Killerbee]

I think its retarded the way you need top change formations in order to beat other formations. I keep the same formation each game regardless and win 95% of the time.

You don't *need* to change formations each time. If your team is better, then the odds are you'll likely be able to win. If you are of equal or worse quality though, it's common sense to adjust your formation slightly in order to take advantage of the other team's weaknesses. Though if you will be playing with a considerably worse team in order to do so, it may be smart to just stick to your ideal setup where your players play in the formation with tactics that suit them.

[Saransh Vatsa]

The opponent playing with one striker, so I suggest you try

.....DC..DC..DC.....
..........DMC..........
MR...MC....MC....ML
...........................
.......ST.....ST........
Red arrows on center defender, DMC and both MC. Attacking through middle, Mixed passing, whole pitch, hard tackling, Man-on-Man. I have tried it against 451V today and won 3-0.

My team's Quality is 46 and the opponent was 36.8

If U use this formation and orders please post the result later.

Don't agree here. Why to triple mark the single ST??? And why no DL/DML and DR/DMR is put up against his wingers. This would fail if ur opponent was anywhere close to ur Q. Also I would say that use my rule and leave the opponents DL and DR jobless by putting no wingers up front and put the pressure of all ur attack on the DCs.

[Marc Symons]

When you put it like that i suppose it makes perfect sense.

[Jose Nourinho]

I beat 3-0 against 5 4 1 using 4 5 1 flat hard Attacking own half mixed passing. So if you want you can use this system because he is focussing to Difend so you go with full Attacking good luck. FC Mogadishu level 6