Well, to know the mentality its easy, just one need to know the line of pressure where the other team starts the game.... defensive means he will come from defense, slowly and step by step from behind till your goal,,, Normal menans the game starts more advanced and attacking you will see the other team starting playing in your own field, this is what I always call -line of pressure-and why I advice always to have prepared 2 groups of orders, because depending of the scenario/simulation, key players that are the choosen ones selected by the system in one match etc.... is better start attacking from your own field...

long - short passing and mixed too is easy to know... the tackling soft-mixed-hard is related to the number of tackles, hard will mean more tackles, and here I tend to think (despite I aklways played NOrmal in all my 57 seasons) that VS better teams (+20%+AvQ) is better do soft tckles due the "posible differance" in the ability tackling so is posible have FK's against going hard, so reduce the number of tackles vs higher Q teams can be a advantadge. Oposite with weaker teams with who we have advantadge in the ability.

ooffside trap is obvious and counters too...

...so for me is not " counter orders", is more find a combination that give you advantadge depending of the scenario that the game creates... and ofc count =, I will not say if more or less, for example, attend and manage the team cause the simulation is another, switch some players... do a sub' ....