Glad you posted this - I played with almost the exact same tactic on FM16 and have spent years trying to recreate it. Wingbacks were massively OP then and were my main source of assists.
Think I will try and recreate it in FM22 (fits my current save perfectly), but for now here's what I remember from my FM16 save.
I had almost exactly the same roles and duties - 4141, BBM and AP(A), DLF(A). Not sure if HBs were in the game then but I used an Anchor to sit in front of the centre backs and mop up in front of them. IWs definitely weren't a thing then so I used a WPM on one side and either a winger on support our defensive winger on the other. I set width to narrow which was key - in defence we had a very compact and narrow 4141 that didn't concede many chances, in attack the LM and RM became the pivots, they would contribute in defence and attack, draw out the opposition and create overloads for the wingbacks to bomb on which in turn created space for the BBM and AP to join the attack, becoming 2-1-6-1 in transition.
Personally I think a PF would struggle in that formation, he'll be pressing on his own with no support when really you need someone who'll drop deep and hold the ball up until the others get forward in support.
Glad you posted this - I played with almost the exact same tactic on FM16 and have spent years trying to recreate it. Wingbacks were massively OP then and were my main source of assists. Think I will try and recreate it in FM22 (fits my current save perfectly), but for now here's what I remember from my FM16 save. I had almost exactly the same roles and duties - 4141, BBM and AP(A), DLF(A). Not sure if HBs were in the game then but I used an Anchor to sit in front of the centre backs and mop up in front of them. IWs definitely weren't a thing then so I used a WPM on one side and either a winger on support our defensive winger on the other. I set width to narrow which was key - in defence we had a very compact and narrow 4141 that didn't concede many chances, in attack the LM and RM became the pivots, they would contribute in defence and attack, draw out the opposition and create overloads for the wingbacks to bomb on which in turn created space for the BBM and AP to join the attack, becoming 2-1-6-1 in transition. Personally I think a PF would struggle in that formation, he'll be pressing on his own with no support when really you need someone who'll drop deep and hold the ball up until the others get forward in support.