beating chelsea

could someone settle a difference of opinion between myself and a mate who i play a network game with is there a certain formation to use that will beat chelsea because there is a bug, thanks.

What bug is that?

i doubt there is a bug that will make one formation mean that you will definaltly beat a team!

but what do i know!?!

No there's not. Try 4-1-4-1, mark the lone striker using a Defensive midfielder, have your full backs stay back and play through balls, and hope to nick a goal with a loan striker. Use your two central midfielders to spread play to two wide men and use a loan striker who's good in the air and pretty quick.

its not a bug its tactically genius

My formation and squad is very capable of beating them .. as i have all 3 times ive faced them

My formation and squad is very capable of beating them .. as i have all 3 times ive faced them

All friendlies against there reserves, right?

When I play them in my Liverpool games, they more often than not beat me (Lampard usually scores about 6 30-yard screamers )

Yet, when I am managing a lesser team, say Atletico Madrid/Shalke, I somehow walk all over the top of them.

Never heard of a bug that guarantees victory over them.

I beat chelsea with a 4-4-2 formation with Blackburn

All friendlies against there reserves, right?

Nope just a very capable liverpool team in 2010 .. ronaldo on a free.. big help.

and a custom 4-1-3-2

if you play a lone striker dont the chelsea defence have trouble marking the player? i thought it had something to do with zonal marking but i may be wrong..

i nearly always beat chelsea 4 - 0 home or away, and sometimes chelsea put up a good fight but i still always outscore against them

Chelsea seem to struggle against a team with one up front, but it isn't a bug because it isn't as simple as just playing one up front, you have to have a decent tactic to back it up with.

http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/36740/t1164877-you-always-beat-chelsea/

Apparently using this tactic above you can guarentee to beat Chelsea.

is it not cause they play man marking, so if you have the players in between their center backs e.g. 1 striker, 3 strikers or attacking midfielders running forward it means you will always have a spare man in attack. i think i read a thread a while back where a guy beat them 8-3 or something as Liverpool and torres scored 8 or something like that, just cause he had 4 players against their center backs. (1 striker, 3 attacking midfielders with Farrows)

use one upfront and you can beat them by 5 goals +. the central defenders tend to run away from each other and give lots of space to the 1 guy. 4-2-3-1 is the best bet mate.

as others have said - play a 4-2-3-1 or 4-1-4-1. i usually have two attacking midfielders making forward runs and for some reason the Chelsea CDs ALWAYS pick these guys up and completely ignore my striker. best result i've had was a 7-1 win, Berbatov scoring 5 of the, - and three of those were him picking the ball up on the halfway line and running in a straight line without a defender getting near him.

it got so i would deliberately not play a lone striker against them cos it felt too much like a cheat it was so easy.

There is certainly an exploit against them, anyone who says there isn't, clearly just hasn't found it out.

There is certainly an exploit against them, anyone who says there isn't, clearly just hasn't found it out.

I don't think it's as easy as just playing one up front though. I play one up front and have beaten Chelsea once in 4 CL ties, not that that's a bad thing, I don't want to take advantage of an exploit, but one up front doesn't guarantee a win.

Early on in the game, say first couple of years:

In oposition instructions, set Frank Lampard to be "Always" closed down with "hard" tackling. Your team's individual instructions use a good CB to man-mark Drogba. Plus some other bits, but you'll have to set your own attacking bits.

Of course, you need a good attack. If you are Man U or Liverpool this usually works. If you are Derby or Stoke, it's unlikely to be much good.

Normally use a 5-3-2 with attacking wing backs and an arrow from CM to the ST position (with an AMC in that role) and good tacklers either side of him. Against the big teams, anyway.