Alright! Got a real game coming...

[Kyroshill]

So in a bit over an hour I have a live match.... real active human manager
and everything.... he went from 13.9 average skill a few hours ago to 15.3
now.... so he's actually playing!!!

So he seems to prefer the 4-2-1-2-1 diamond....

Ideas on what I should counter with?

I was thinking about a 4-5-1 V.... normal, both flanks, own half, normal, mixed, zonal, ca

Options?

[dv8r]

4-2-1-2-1 Don't you mean 4-1-2-1-2?

Can you post a picture of his team?

[Kyroshill]

Stupid fingers have a mind of their own sometimes.... LOL

Here...

[dv8r]

4-5-1 V is the way then.

The tactics you have is good. I would even put red arrows on your DL and DR since he can't hurt you from the flanks, that gives you better passing to your AML and AMR. Just remember no offside trap and you're good to go.

[Accyrover]

The V will be fine, if you want to give it some extra poke up front play two strikers as he has only two you only need 3 DC's.
I find when playing like this, as you don't have DR/DL, play defensive, with counter and long passing mixed focus from zonal.

[Kyroshill]

You know what.... I can't watch this....

I tried to hide my formation from my opponent so I didn't select my real one until a minute
before game time....

guess whjat.... ya can't!!!! I'm screwed!

[dv8r]

You know what.... I can't watch this....

I tried to hide my formation from my opponent so I didn't select my real one until a minute
before game time....

guess whjat.... ya can't!!!! I'm screwed!

You can't do it that close

[Ro Edu]

lol 5 minutes before the match you cannot do any more changes in your team !

[Kyroshill]

That sucked.... since I don't want opposing managers to easily see my plans...

I leave my team looking like this...



So that's how I had to start the match...
Between my computer and the server it took 28 minutes of match time to get my
formation straight.... in that time we spotted the opponent 1 goal....

At the end.... we lost 3-2..... that's just wrong....

So does anyone know the limit?

1 min before the match
2 mins
5?

And how would I have known that before?

[dv8r]

That sucked.... since I don't want opposing managers to easily see my plans...

I leave my team looking like this...



So that's how I had to start the match...
Between my computer and the server it took 28 minutes of match time to get my
formation straight.... in that time we spotted the opponent 1 goal....

At the end.... we lost 3-2..... that's just wrong....

So does anyone know the limit?

1 min before the match
2 mins
5?

And how would I have known that before?

Learn from your mistakes. I knew back in L1 when I tried to use a booster 4 minutes before kick off, it said players already entered the field and I can't do those things.

So it's 4-5 minutes before kick off, you can't change formations, can't use boosters, can't train or assign skill points.