[How do you play against this formation?]

4 hours ago, ultrAslan said:

Sounds like me when I was playing against the big boys! Try to soak up the pressure and hit them on the counter! Let the opponent come to you and let them tire out so you can bang them in the latter stages of the game. For more info read this thread, really helped the way I was playing against some formations and teams:
 

 

It should not be the same problem, because we are top of the league, but your thread could be usefull next season when we go up. In reality our team is probably top 6-8 of the league by skill level, but our dmc/cms/amc:s are top quality, so we shouldn't be dominated. I was thinking about a flat midfield like this, since they don't have central midfielders.

[How do you play against this formation?]

This is my standard formation. Im not sure who should I drop and why? Surely the striker could have a different role, if I had a substitute, but im not sure it would make a difference in between of the opposition formation.

[How do you play against this formation?]

23 minutes ago, NineCloudNine said:

Some thoughts:

- stretch the play as wide as possible to create some space in the middle

- drop to a lower defensive line/pressing line so you don’t just bunch everyone into the same place

- long balls over the top to your striker(s)

- play for set pieces

- drop one or more of your three AMs to CM so they have more space

- use a different striker, that one didn’t work

- shrug and accept that sometimes your team loses, you still won the league and in that game your xG wasn’t much worse

The xG was almost same, because we had a sitter from a corner at injury time. They dominated, like what happened every time I played against similar formation. I only have 2 players in attacking role. I could drop the wingers down, but im not sure what it would do.

[How do you play against this formation?]

I just secured promotion with my Teneriffa side. I dominated most of the games using 4-2-3-1 formation, but using it against that narrow formation was a doom every time. I did win once stacking central midfield like they did, and it would probably work more often, but is there another way? Are there instruction you could make, without having to copy their strategy? It just looks impenectrable.