The guide says give an att role for your most creative player. Is your most creative player the HB or the AM?
If it's the HB change him to a PM role and place him in the M strata. Also I'd not go with a slow player on AM-att duty. An AM is a runner/hard worker, so maybe a holding CM role would suit him better and one of the CMs could move up?
Also, GK distribution to true playmaker role in the team makes more sense to me, otherwise distribute to player position.
An option could also be moving the AM to a WP role in M strata, giving you midfield width defensively and smart combination play with the WB? You would need to re-work the midfield, though...
Only do this if your WBs are good at marking and have relatively high work rate, determination and stamina.
Set these to shorter/more direct and higher/lower only if your MCs, AMs, FCs have above/below league average in the skills specified in the opening post. (I use Excel for this after exportng my squad skills overview.)
Also your mentality has set this to mixed, meaning you trust your players' decisions here. If you do not trust their decisons, you can help them prioritize one way or the other. I'd assume the weight goes from 50-50 (default) to (short passes) 65-35 (direct passes) when set to shorter and vice versa on more direct (but don't use this as a fact, it's only my assumption ).
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I'd say it's overkill. Normally stretching play creates space.
Width should complement passing style. Wider normally works better with more direct passing. The specified players and skills as in the opening post should dictate this.
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It would be interesting to see if you give your interpretation a run or if you make changes. Currently working on a flat 4-4-2 with Esbjerg myself with a very promising start in the friendlies so far. Cheers