Crushed by an assymetric formation!

[HoofDaddy]

Exactly, I tend to watch their footing as well, like an aml with right foot and AMR with left, they tend to cut inside more so I am less worried about the flanks than the middle. Only way you can get away with 3w man marking is with offside trap on and high pressing but that burns a sick amount of condition. I think ponzu is way overthinking things. As a rule i generally use defensive formations in home cup legs and attacking in away legs due to the power of away goals. Ive lost way too many first leg home legs trying to score early and often.

[ponzu]

As a rule i generally use defensive formations in home cup legs and attacking in away legs due to the power of away goals. Ive lost way too many first leg home legs trying to score early and often.

I started out from the same place. I consider 4-5-1V nicely defensive, and I did set the orders to defensive with counters. The goal in the 1st minute made me lose my cool. I tied, he immediately scored again. I threw caution to the wind and got another goal for good measure.

P.S. Well, ****, I wrote 4-5-1V, but that's not what I played, is it? I played 3W. That was a desperation move. The guy got into my head. All day he was sitting on a Narrow Diamond formation and I had 4-5-1V lined up. Then he changed it to this weird formation that you call not all that asymmetrical and I panicked. I don't know how I came up with 3W. I figured with man-to-man everyone will pick a man and stick to him like glue, 4 defender against 3 forwards. And the DL had an up arrow on him to be able to contribute to attack. Not the DR of course. I expected the challenge was going to be in scoring, not in holding the fort.