Attack wins matches,defense wins championships!

[Abhinavsharma]

Actually, playing attacking in the earlier levels WINS you championships, but yea, scoring 26 in a season while conceding none will win you a championship.

But I scored 58 and conceeded 34 last league and thats nothing new with defensive mentality.

[Abhinavsharma]

And moreover surrender every bad thoughts or you will never take benifits of it.

[Abhinavsharma]

True. But still, you can decrease the amount of conceded goals by using high pressing.

By the way, defense and attack are equally important, especially if you play in all 3 competitions. The mentality to be used is chosen according to the the situation that will be faced.

Like I have said, the combination of defensive and force counter-attacks seems to work in this game because most teams, irrespective of whether they are stronger than your team or not, will use an attacking mentality. But if you face a good manager or the right tactics were selected by coincidence or other, it may fail, even if his team is weaker than yours.

I think you know that 90% players uses low press with defensive mentality.And if you uses high press then you are offering opponent to shower counter attacks.
I am not asking to use defensive all time as attacking wins matches.

[Arion]

But I scored 58 and conceeded 34 last league and thats nothing new with defensive mentality.

34 is way too much, our defence concedes usually less than 30 a season. We're now the joint best defence, along with the first place (scored only a goal more than us, same record) and 5th place. We all have conceded only 5 till now. And even more interesting, we all use 4-5-1V

[Arion]

Usually in defensive formations, the setpiece is your main source of goals. So you really need a good FK specialist and a CK specialist. Luckily, I have both — the tried-and-tested David, and the new signing Torrano, who had a slow start but is now on the top assists list. David is first on goalscoring list. Our best player is DC/DR Jorge, who's 2nd best in the league. A good back 5 and 2 good setpiece takers are enough for winning a long tournament. See Leicester, their defence have been so good, and they somehow manage to score a goal every game.

[Abhinavsharma]

I think real life football does not need quantity in defense,if you have best 2 defender of league then you have proper defense.
But in this game you need quantity,so more defender means more precise defense lol

[Tactician]

I think you know that 90% players uses low press with defensive mentality.And if you uses high press then you are offering opponent to shower counter attacks.
I am not asking to use defensive all time as attacking wins matches.

You have misunderstood what I have said. I am speaking of high pressing for attacking mentality. If used appropriately, that is with a proper formation, this will likely decrease the amount of conceded goals.

I have said this so many times, but I have to say it again as it seems you missed it; in this game, most teams seems to use an attacking mentality disregarding whether or not they are stronger or weaker than the opponent. Take into consideration that users on this forum only represent a very small fraction of the users of this game. This is why it seems that generally, the combination of defensive and counter attacks works when used with an appropriate formation for many matches. This does mean that this tactic is the best for winning the league or things like that. There is no definite best tactic to win a competition; it all depends on what you have in your team and on what the opponents have for the season concerned.

[Tactician]

But I scored 58 and conceeded 34 last league and thats nothing new with defensive mentality.

The combination of defensive and force counter attacks is not defensive as such. It is an attacking strategy.

[Tactician]

Usually in defensive formations, the setpiece is your main source of goals.

It seems so in this game, especially when you use 4-5-1(V) with defensive and force counter-attack orders. Free-kicks and corners are the main sources of goals, especially when you have the appropriate specialists.

One possible reason is that when your team counter-attacks an opponent, his defensive players are more likely to make fouls to stop your attackers or put the ball out of play as these situations are most likely one-on-ones or a similar amount of players for each team in the opposing half during the counter-attack.

[Abhinavsharma]

The combination of defensive and force counter attacks is not defensive as such. It is an attacking strategy.

Counter attacks does not work if opponent have 2 DMC why?