Quote Originally Posted by hullabaloo View Post
my players' stats are pretty good. One of them is on scout level, and my worst players has better stats than the opponent's best player



3-5-2 = Normal, mixed passing down both flanks with zonal marking and pressure in own half.
3-5-2 V = Attacking, mixed passing down both flanks with zonal marking and pressure all over the pitch.



thanks mate! my main point isnt really abt the counters though, but that a much worse team shouldn't be able to absolutely dominated the shot statistics without using a good counter-formation against a much better team - while being dominated in possession



when was this game? and were the other conditions i mentioned met as well?
When facing whole filled midfields, if you don't plan to pressure to the most, it's alwais better to use long passing along with red arrows on the pitch zones you want to use. In your case, if the opponent played defensive, own half, long passages, counter on then that explains perfectly why you held ball possession while you lost and had less shoots then him. Also, i would alwais use ams for Ms since they do break offside trap. If you need a M that much, all you do is put blue arrows to those AMs. From what i see your team attacked many times trying to break the pitched midfield, while they took the occasion for a counter to score.

If you plan on possession and have more quality, more people, and overall better pressure on midfield, alwais use SHORT passing instead of mixed or long.

As for the 4-4-2 issue, 4-1-2-1-2 is its natural born killer.