In desperate need for help with my Hansa Rostock side.

As the title already says im in desperate need for help... I ve picked Hansa Rostock for a new career in the German 3. League but i just cant make it work.

My biggest problem is that i cant find a tactic thats working.

I made my mind up at the start of my career that i wanted to play possesion based football out of two reasons. First of all because my team is one of the better teams in the league, so i figured that my usual counterattacking aproach might not be too useful, since most of the time are set on defending against me. Secondly because my team is fairely good in terms of passing, first touch and technique in comparison to the other teams.

With this controll based approach i toyed around in many different ways but could not get it working, or atleast not like it should. Im currently at the end of my second season and sitting for the second year in the middle of the table. I win some games, draw more and loose the most, but if i win its mostly because of some penalties, corners or some other luck stuff. If i loose however i have like 55-60% possesion but only create like 5-6 shots a game, which would not be that bad if i wouldn't get hit on the counter like 1-2 times a game.

If tried almost everything. From 4-4-2 to 4-2-3-1, from rigid to fluid, with various different team and player instructions but I cant make it work. Now im not that fixed on possesion football and tried attacking but i couldn't think of an other way to beat my defensive based opponents.

before this setup i had: keep possesion, shorter passing, pass into space, work ball into box, look for overlap, much higher defensive line, hassle opponents and lower tempo.

i switched all those on and off again trying to find a functioning pairing but nothing seemed to be working.

the only Personal Instructions i curently have:

GK: Distribute to defenders

both CD: shorter passing

both FB: run wide with ball

AP: more direct passing

AF: hold position

I would be so glad any help and any opinions on what to try as i cant think of anything which would change my fortune around.

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