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.