Season 66 - Week 4

[Gert Funck]

What a s**t game this is sometimes...

three central defenders against two attacking wingers is really a risky tactic, even if you are the better team

[khris]

three central defenders against two attacking wingers is really a risky tactic, even if you are the better team

Now again I have the oportunity to repeat my "mantra" about defenses of 3 LOL

[StevieV14]

Now again I have the oportunity to repeat my "mantra" about defenses of 3 LOL

Do you not believe in a defensive 3? If so I'm interested to know why not.

I've played with defensive 3 most of this season except when bans or injuries or the opposition tactics may require a change. I've only conceded 9 league goals. I do play mostly with two DM though, when I have a back 3. If I have a back 4 I go to 1 DM, or sometimes none at all.

[khris]

Do you not believe in a defensive 3? If so I'm interested to know why not.

I've played with defensive 3 most of this season except when bans or injuries or the opposition tactics may require a change. I've only conceded 9 league goals. I do play mostly with two DM though, when I have a back 3. If I have a back 4 I go to 1 DM, or sometimes none at all.

During my 2 years here ve seen lot of people coming here with good teams and surprising results against, if I count all the times that this situaion happened and all times Ive said "ohh, look, again 3 defenders" probably is arround 30 times in 2 years LOL
I belive in that 1st, are the players, thats the 1st under all.
Then if I have to do a ranking of formations, the formations with 3 defenders are less stable and usually have more % of surprising result against despite better Q. because if a the players fail, formation chrashes.
That's of course my personal viewpoint and my personal feeling about that, thats why I use always 4 defenders in a 4-3-3, 4-3-1-2 or 4-1-2-1-2 (diamond).
Everyone have to play with what he feels that is the beteter because nobody knows how the game works really LOL

[Amane Ito]

three central defenders against two attacking wingers is really a risky tactic, even if you are the better team

The problem don't lies on that.
The problem is a single DMC at the center is hard countered by a pair of AML+AMR. 5 rating is horrific, but it's not so much as the DMC's fault, but the formation is being countered with your weakness exposed but the opposing has none.

You need to be a bit lucky to win when your formation is hard-countered like that.
However, even with this matching you can still use man-to-man marking to prevent your DMC from being sandwiched. The result could have been very different.

[khris]

" to prevent your DMC from being sandwiched"

You made my day with these words LOL