Force Counter Attacks !?

[Philip L. Willis]

In my language it says 'force opponent to counter attack', so I still don't know for sure whether it means that I play counter attack or that I force my opponent to play counter attack. How do you guys know for sure that it means that you play counter attack yourself?

LOL, I don't know man. How to MAKE the other manager counter attack! Maybe Nordeus sends someone over and up arrows all your players or something... again their reliance of GOOGLE translate bewilders me.

[meis]

5-4-1 with counter attacks earned me a 4-0 victory against an equal team as me. Parking ftw!

[Siddharth Shanker Singh]

If you are not playing with Force Counter Attacks or with offside trap that does not means that your team will never counter attack or play offside trap...

Playing with Counter Attack means that you are deliberately trying or forcing your team to create a Counter Attack by losing ball possession so that your opponent can attack you and when they are in your half you can Counter Attack them...That's why Forcing your team to play Counter Attack works well with Defensive formation and when you have less possession......

[shakiraa]

If you are not playing with Force Counter Attacks or with offside trap that does not means that your team will never counter attack or play offside trap...

Playing with Counter Attack means that you are deliberately trying or forcing your team to create a Counter Attack by losing ball possession so that your opponent can attack you and when they are in your half you can Counter Attack them...That's why Forcing your team to play Counter Attack works well with Defensive formation and when you have less possession......

Hi Sid..that means when I have less possession compared to my opponent..I can consider turn on force counter attack? Thanks

[Siddharth Shanker Singh]

Hi Sid..that means when I have less possession compared to my opponent..I can consider turn on force counter attack? Thanks

Yes, it should work well but then you formation should be a defensive one......

[WeWillAllBeForgotten]

If you are not playing with Force Counter Attacks or with offside trap that does not means that your team will never counter attack or play offside trap...

Playing with Counter Attack means that you are deliberately trying or forcing your team to create a Counter Attack by losing ball possession so that your opponent can attack you and when they are in your half you can Counter Attack them...That's why Forcing your team to play Counter Attack works well with Defensive formation and when you have less possession......

This, from what i've seen your team can counter attack regardless of whether you have it ticked (based off of your mentality) when your opponent makes a mistake and has alot of his team pressing forward. But forcing a counter attack means you try to create the opportunity yourself ie your defense might rush up on the opponents attack to disposses them and then launch the counter (however if they fail to disposses them and get outplayed then the attack=1 on 1 with goalkeeper. The defense might also play the ball from their own box to the midfield while the midfield/attack get in position for the counter giving you a numerical advantage in the opponents defensive half if the defender successfully gets the ball away, but if they get dispossessed then your opponent will counter or a block will just end the attack. So ticking force counter attack is most effective when playing with a defensive formation and your wing backs have a high physicality rating compared to your opponents attack and are playing 4 or 5 defenders. It can of course work on any formation but if your defense is weaker than your opponents strikers/midfield then you're gonna have a bad time.

Top eleven also seem to have defenders sometimes scoring from forcing counter attacks (a lot of my dl/dr/dmcs have a few goals and a few assists in their time at my club)

[Buffs Mad]

Force Counter-attack works.

[Cat Harrison]

I play counters on my 35T team, too. It hasn't power training, so I think it's safe to call it an average team.

I agree with Buffs.

[gohannie]

I am a fan of counter attack (use it mainly with 4321, 451v, or motivated 442 (with 1 winger play higher upfront wt 2 st). Won many trophies, league tittle, c1 and doing well in cup (im not a token buyer) and I hv hd several undefeated results in league. 1 thing is, i applied counter attack on 1 main acc and 3 sub, all lvl 20+ and beat better Q rivals easily times by times. howerver, as far as i Noticed, counter only works with defensive mode and/or normal mode. Certainly, Attacking dont need counter attack, and if you dare to play attacking along with counter, feel free to experience some "unexpected results" againts much weaker teams. The most important thing is, playing counter attack need a different way of building players.

[Lukáš Ledecký]

I am a fan of counter attack (use it mainly with 4321, 451v, or motivated 442 (with 1 winger play higher upfront wt 2 st). Won many trophies, league tittle, c1 and doing well in cup (im not a token buyer) and I hv hd several undefeated results in league. 1 thing is, i applied counter attack on 1 main acc and 3 sub, all lvl 20+ and beat better Q rivals easily times by times. howerver, as far as i Noticed, counter only works with defensive mode and/or normal mode. Certainly, Attacking dont need counter attack, and if you dare to play attacking along with counter, feel free to experience some "unexpected results" againts much weaker teams. The most important thing is, playing counter attack need a different way of building players.

You could be right, because I'm using Attacking formation with Counter-Attacks and I had some "unexpected results" recently (but only this season ). I'll try to don't force counter-attacks.