How to build a strong team?

[Buster Keaton]

4-5-1 V-style (motivated)
An awesomely versatile formation that combined with a few arrows can be either attacking or defensive. In this case, you want to force an attack through the wings, so…

————-ST—————
AML———————AMR
———MC——-MC———
————-DMC (UP)———
DL (UP)—-DC–DC—-DR (UP

Motivated DL and DR’s block movement from the opponents ML and MR’s while also feeding passes to your AML and AMR. The 2 MC and motivated DMC block any centre movement.
On the attack your formation will effectively be:

———–ST————
AML—————–AMR
——MC–MC–MC—–
DML—————-DMR
———-DC–DC——–

That gives you 5 midfielders to block the opponent’s 5, and you have 2 attacking midfielders which have open access since he doesn’t have wing backs or fullbacks. On the defense, your formation will return to the basic 4-5-1 and still give you a solid coverage.

Mentality: Usually normal, but I recommend going defensive with hard tackling if the opponent’s team is better, and attacking if the opposite is weaker with normal tackling
Force counter: Yes
Passing: mixed, through both flanks or /short, mixed play
Pressing: own half
Zonal marking


if you have ml/aml player and mr/amr player you can also easily play the 4-1-4-1 formation

and the 3n-5-2 or 3n-5-2v formations

[Tactician]

4-5-1 V-style (motivated)
An awesomely versatile formation that combined with a few arrows can be either attacking or defensive. In this case, you want to force an attack through the wings, so…

————-ST—————
AML———————AMR
———MC——-MC———
————-DMC (UP)———
DL (UP)—-DC–DC—-DR (UP

Motivated DL and DR’s block movement from the opponents ML and MR’s while also feeding passes to your AML and AMR. The 2 MC and motivated DMC block any centre movement.
On the attack your formation will effectively be:

———–ST————
AML—————–AMR
——MC–MC–MC—–
DML—————-DMR
———-DC–DC——–

That gives you 5 midfielders to block the opponent’s 5, and you have 2 attacking midfielders which have open access since he doesn’t have wing backs or fullbacks. On the defense, your formation will return to the basic 4-5-1 and still give you a solid coverage.

Mentality: Usually normal, but I recommend going defensive with hard tackling if the opponent’s team is better, and attacking if the opposite is weaker with normal tackling
Force counter: Yes
Passing: mixed, through both flanks or /short, mixed play
Pressing: own half
Zonal marking


if you have ml/aml player and mr/amr player you can also easily play the 4-1-4-1 formation

and the 3n-5-2 or 3n-5-2v formations

What if you put a red arrow on the ST, does the ST end up playing in the opponents goal?
Arrows are still a mystery in this game. I have had good and bad effects when using them, but more negative effects when red arrows were put on DMC and side defenders.

[Gabez Teh]

What if you put a red arrow on the ST, does the ST end up playing in the opponents goal?

imho if you narrowing your ST forward you are risking off-sides more than you not narrowing up him BUT if he gets the ball in perfect time you should score from dat situation

btw: if i have a chance i attend my games with the new beta "table-soccer" feature and my last cup game had sooo many off-sides so i suspect my oppo was playing with off-side trap feature

edit:

on-topic: i suggest to the topic opener a good old attacking narrow-diamond (4-1-2narrow-1-2) formation of course it have 4 extra position (DL,DR,DMC,AMC: but less than 451v) and you should maintain your players above 4* but it's worth a try

[Buffs Mad]

What if you put a red arrow on the ST, does the ST end up playing in the opponents goal?
Arrows are still a mystery in this game. I have had good and bad effects when using them, but more negative effects when red arrows on DMC and side defenders.

Arrows are not a mystery. Imo, the game, as with many games, uses a less > average > more mechanic.

When you set the formation in a the grid an arrow does not move a player forward or back a box. That's bogus imo. The grid is just a graphical representation of relative positions and a means for the game to check and apply 'factors'.

Attacking Mentality makes a team more attacking and Defensive mentality = more defensive. Arrows do that to an individual player.

Ask yourself what Attacking does at a team level and that's what happens at a player level.

Red arrows = Players will get forward more and use Attacking skills more.
Blue Arrows = Players try to fall back more and use Defensive skills more.

On topic, differing stategies will depend on the level of activity of other managers. Generally speaking, at low levels attacking is the best poilcy but against an experienced manager this could unravel.