I replied in the press saying that a player was still in my plans for the future and it turned into a promise that I have to give him a new contract in 30 days (he's currently contract will be over at the end of the season)
For one game change your Mez to a CM on support for example and you will see that the IW will go inside. When there is someone already in the space your IW will remain wide until the space is vacated while the winger will always stay wide unless you ask him to cut inside
You can have 2 to stay back and one more to stay back if needed and depending on how many players the AI leave forward the 3rd player will stay back if there is a need for that
I've just noticed that the UI bug from FM23 is still there where if you change a role during a game the UI doesn't update with the new role you've chosen so it looks like the player is still playing in the previous role even if that's not case
What I love the most about it is the variation between the AI, some play short, some play to the far post, some to the near post and some try to play it to the center for a player to have a shot at goal
The ME seems to be really good so far and people that complain about not having a with ball and without ball formation should be happy because now you can defend for example with a 442 and attack with various shapes like the 235,325,334 etc.
I also like the fact that players who are offside hold their runs and allow the next player who isn't offside to go for the ball
I'm going to save the game files incase an update changes the way the ME works so I can go back to the way it is now
I personally like the fact that they don't boot the ball up even when they're not under pressure but they seem to make a lot of mistakes like under hitting passes, poor first touch etc.
The ball over the top that catches your defenders out is gone too
Why should it be impossible? You're playing against teams that are broadly at your level. When the old school teams were playing a basic 442 what you also say that lower division team shouldn't be able to play that way?