I would go for the butterfly:

--------ST-------
AML----------AMR
----MC----MC----
DML----------DMR
----DC-DC-DC----

You'll attack down the wings, red arrows on AMs, blue arrows on MCs. Defensive mentality to start with, own half pressure, normal/hard tackling, long passes, counter attack, no offside traps. I prefer this formation over yours because his midfielders will all be triple marked, zonal marking of course.