Tactic against high energy team

[Nima2708]

Hi guys,

I am Sevilla first season, and as you may know, they dont have much defefensive players in midfield.
I play 4-3-3 and try to play similiar to their real life style. Using wingbacks overlaping and crossing.

But I see that against teams like Feyenoord that have a energic midfield and high work rate. They ruin my play, we just simple cant match them. This happens often in Europe agianst Nordic teams with high workrate.

What would you do and why?

Should I play wide ore small? Passing short ore direct? Tempo high ore low? 

Things I have done is:
Ask them to get the ball to the flanks, so we dont lose the ball in centerpart of the fields.
Dont play out from defence so they dont catch us.
Have low crosses so we dont get counter attack
Re-group on counter attack so the game dont go in waves.
 

[Experienced Defender]

Where is a screenshot of your tactic, to begin with? 

[Nima2708]

7 hours ago, Experienced Defender said:

Where is a screenshot of your tactic, to begin with? 

Sorry didint load up, here is the tactic after I have edited it. What else would you do?

 

(I also changed striker from AF to PF. Half back to BWM and brought in a faster DM then Fernando.

[Experienced Defender]

2 hours ago, Nima2708 said:

Half back to BWM

Why? 

 

2 hours ago, Nima2708 said:

What else would you do?

This:

PFat

IWsu                               IFsu

MEZat    DLPsu

HB

WBsu   CDde  CDde   FBat

SKsu

Would also:

- remove lower tempo

- remove overlap left

Other potential tweaks would then depend on what I observe on the pitch.

[Nima2708]

32 minutes ago, Experienced Defender said:

Why? 

 

This:

PFat

IWsu                               IFsu

MEZat    DLPsu

HB

WBsu   CDde  CDde   FBat

SKsu

Would also:

- remove lower tempo

- remove overlap left

Other potential tweaks would then depend on what I observe on the pitch.

I changed the half back because I got some better presurre in midfield and could support Banega and Jordan better.
I felt against high energy teams we didint win the ball and didint manage to keep pressure.

Could I ask why you would change the wingers and Mezzela?  And thanks for the input!

[Experienced Defender]

14 hours ago, Nima2708 said:

Could I ask why you would change the wingers and Mezzela?

I changed the mezzala's duty into attack to get better interplay between him and the IW. Because in my experience, a mezzala and wide fwd (regardless of the role) work better together when they are on different duties.