Quote Originally Posted by EmilZ View Post
Thank you. That is actually very helpful. I think I could turn it around. However, the match is while I'm at school and can't attend unless I change the time. What formation would you advise? My AMC is my best player so I could drop him back into a MC for a 4-1-3-2 or have an AML and AMR for a 4-5-1v. I'd appreciate any help for tactics.
I do not study counter formation. Generally, I insist to put my players to their natural positions. So it is hard to adopt various counter formation. I build my teams for formation 4-4-2 and employ some versatile players to facilitate minor formation changes.

For your case, if your starting players are your best ones and have already been placed in the best formation, I suggest to put a blue arrow on the AMC, red arrows on the DMC, ML and MR, and then set focus passing to both flanks. If you can attend the match, I prefer to start with defensive mentality and observe. As usual, identifying inactive players and then make substitution and change attacking focus during the match. If you will not be present, I think setting a normal mentality will be safer.

Please note that I rarely set so many arrows like these. I just try to use your team with my tactics. I am not sure if it works.

BTW, I rarely employ pure AMC, even though 2 AMC were among the best players in my teams' history. But I have at least one AMC/AML or AMC/AMR in my squad so that I can make in-match adjustment to set AMC if necessary.

Good luck.