Crushed by an assymetric formation!

[Arion]

I played attacking, granted, but no high pressure. I did not have offside trap based on the presence of an AMC. Again, read that somewhere, just like I read to use DMC against AMC. Some things I take close to heart, other not so quickly. And yes, of course I was playing zonal.

I always play Zonal, Low pressure. I never found that varying these does me any good other than makes my guys runs out of steam.

To recap what you said:

- If I am to copy his formation, I should turn counters on and hope my opponent marks zonal as most managers do.

- When I play him again, I add DMC, switch to man-to-man, normal, low press. 4-5-1V sounds reasonable? Perhaps 4-1-4-1?

No, not 4-5-1V since you'll lose the advantage in the midfield. Rather, you could've tried 4-1-3-2, I feel in that case, it could've been a draw, since it nullifies the midfield barring their ML.
And for your other post, it's quite ironic that I lost 2-0 to 4-3-3 and won 3-0 to 4-3-1-2, OT on in both cases. It depends on the opponent's quality. Offside trap itself is quite dangerous, and don't use it if the opponent's AMs and STs are faster, and never if they have more than 3 STs and AMs combined.
I'm tanking in league, but going for the CL-Cup double; it's harder than the treble, you know. It's like swimming upstream.