4132 Guide

[TimYoung]

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Won our first leg against a higher Q team at home using normal forced counter attack. As said because they had a packed defence force counter attack is the way to go. Also, I had blue arrow on my DL because he was 27 rated whilst their MR was 33. This did mean I had no width on the left hand side.

In their set up, their best player was the middle mc with def rating of around 25 but attack rating of 40 whilst the two other mcs were even 30s. Instead of putting my best defensive mc marking him, I use the opportunity to place my best offensive MC against him instead because he has the lowest def rating and I have a DMC behind. If he had played his most offensive player to the sides, I might have played my best def MC against him instead without the safety of my dmc.

In any case, it worked out well and my offensive MC played a 9.

In the return leg, I think Ill play def counter as I am playing away. The game should be close since the home game for some reason in the second half it was all him and my amazing def somehow held out from all his shots. Not sure Ill be this lucky in the away leg and think I might need to change things up a bit. Maybe play hard tackling and long ball since he beats me all over the pitch apart from my strikers against his DCs.

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Draw the return leg 1-1. I forgot to change my orders to long ball,and the game was pretty boring as there were not many chances. It seemed he was also playing def counter attack as well since he was countering a lot but my numerical advantage at the back held out.

However, his 40 rating offence midfielder somehow got past my DMC and did an unstoppable long shot and went 1-0 up. I replied with my offensive MC with a long shot as well. The game was going his way until his striker got his second yellow card and after that he had few chances with the possession stats swinging my way. I guess I could have gone for the kill and switch up to normal but since he needed to win by two goals I thought I'll just leave it there to close out the game.

I had intended to switch to hard tackling second half but seeing the red card, I felt I didn't need to do anything until the last 10 minutes when I switched to hard tackling and he had zero opportunities after.