Thanks for your support, guys. After some consideration and a short time out for a couple of days, I went back at it. Unfortunately we got knocked out of the CL and cup to inferior teams during my time out eventhough I attended the games but didn't really prepare.
What was looking like a rather bleek season with several losses, has turned around somewhat. The league leader, +10 % overall quality compared to us, was steam rolling everyone. For the last couple of days I've been playing several friendlies against him. Going into today's game, we had to win. We lost about 80 % of all the friendlies. He uses 442, and I just couldn't beat it. No matter formation or tactics.
But that was about to change. Since we don't have the required players to play 41212 ND, we had to come up with something else. So we set up a possession based 41212 formation but with two shadow strikers instead focusing the play to the center of the field. I knew possession would be key, so we went for a combination of neutral and attacking mentality (the latter since we had to win) with high pressure, hard tackling and short passes. We managed to really suffocate the center of the field while still maintaining presence at the flanks. A 2-1 win on away turf, and you're looking at the new league leader.
League is really tight. Three games left, of which I'm meeting the third and fourth placed teams in two of them. It's going to be a nail biter until the last minute.
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Originally Posted by Arphaxad
Thanks for your support, guys. After some consideration and a short time out for a couple of days, I went back at it. Unfortunately we got knocked out of the CL and cup to inferior teams during my time out eventhough I attended the games but didn't really prepare.
