Table of Counter Formations v2.0 - Which formation to use?

[Toxcatl]

You didn't play 4-5-1V, you played 4-2mc-3w-1. Against teams who play on counter-attacks (like this one) DMC is a great help. Especially if your opponent has AMC (yours had two!). Also, in this game, exactly as in the RL football, accidents happen all the time. You can do everything right and still get beaten.
Your statistics was better than his. Not that better as it should be, but still better. It was was simply an unlucky result plus a mistake with DMC.
I like your orders; M2M is probably better against short passes (your opponent used them) than High pressing which I believe is better against Long passes, but I'm not 100% sure about it (indistinct guesses, remember? =]); if I have 87%+ possession I usually switch to Long passes, but only if I need to score.

Keep going, you are on the right way! Unexpected losing is unavoidable part of this game.