[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

Anyone with experience as to, while having possession, draw the opponent's team shape towards one flank and have a holding player switch the ball to the other flank?

[The Art of Counter Attacking]

I refuse and am stubborn to deny a base 4-2-3-1 some stinging semblance on the break! Some posts refer to a deep central midfield pair in the DM strata. This requires holding roles for the pair. I suggest roaming playmaker and deep lying playmaker, as the roaming playmaker is probably the closest a role can get to a box-to-box midfielder. However, thoughts of a completely defensive role such as anchor man or half back would seem unlikely to penetrate well during the transition and final third phases, and yet the OP's message is clear that traditional ideas of what works and what doesn't are being argued. Not only that, but the distinction between tactics and style of play are in discussion here. Working with a base 4-2-3-1 formation, I refer to the Pairs & Combinations document. Referring to that only yields ideas and ideal principles. I ask again for a fleshed out discussion aimed towards this base formation, in hopes that this formation, which has carried my underdog teams to greatness in FM15, could show some potential.