What do you all mean with countering the orders?

[Tactician]

Cool, thanks guys, the question was to all. I forgot to mention the ARROWS but I guess you will answer the same blahblah I am really cool with ur answers, dont understand me wrong, I just have often seen confident ways what to do but seems like noone knows it really (maybe LacBuoc can teach me).
I ve read, that def counters attack. But then, how to counter def? With attack? Questions over questions. For my team this doesnt work though. I have been burnt few times by changing to def when I needed to defend a close score. That ALWAYS went bad, so I swore not to do it anymore. This season a difficult 1:0 against a weaker unmanaged team, not my strongest 11 on the field, 15 mins before end I decide to def and counter - bam 1:1. So I always play attack against attack, it works better, but there is no counter logic

https://forum.topeleven.com/top-elev...tml#post463971

For the questions you are asking concerning what order will counter what order, like I said, there is no sort of code. You can go by football logic, but sometimes the game itself seems to go against football logic.

One more thing: what has worked for someone before might not work for you. Take into consideration, that the situations may be different despite that it could still be weak versus strong team, same formation versus same other formation and so on. What I mean is that your in-game situation itself is different. There are many things probably hidden in this game, for example things that affects the chance of success of a team for particular match, during a particular week for a particular season other than quality, formation and orders. The situation of the game itself seems to be changing with time. I even suspect that the preference of some orders by the game are sort of random instead of going by football logic. For example, suppose you play versus a team at home for knock-out leg using defensive mentality and you win by a large score, the logic would be to stick to that mentality (and even the other orders) for the next leg if the opponent did not change anything. But, sometimes you will find out that an attacking mentality is being preferred by the game for the away leg, despite that nothing has changed on the opponent's side in terms of orders and even despite that you won by a large score using a defensive mentality for the home match. If you take such occurring into consideration, it seems that the preferred mentality itself is random.