just starting my sixth season and I've been playing 4-3-1-2 the entire time
With it I've won the CL twice as well as every Serie A, Coppa Italia, Super Coppa, Euro Cup, Club world cup i've played in.
Team instructions are: Higher Tempo, run at defense, play out of defense, exploit the middle, play wider and retain possession
Depending on the opposition formation I sometimes drop exploit the middle and adjust team width
When playing Challenging away matches I change my mentality from attacking to standard, set my wide defenders to defend duty and, when the opposition plays 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 drop play out of defense as they close down my defenders to quickly
as for players I choose shoot less often for everyone but the FWs, fewer risky passes for Kante Barbosa and all the defenders (except Bonucci), more direct passing for Bonucci, verratti, Saul and Dybala and stay wider for the fullbacks. Saul plays as an attacking B2B with more direct passing, dribble more and get forward further.
One more important note is that my GK distributes ball to the wide defenders so its key to have technically capable players in those positions (and the CBs too) or it really fucks up the building from the back
I could never get high line, offside trap or high closing down to work so i scrapped those
Biggest problem i've had with this team is that its vulnerable to quick counter attacks particularly ones based out wide which results in my midfield giving up more fouls than id like as they get back to stop opposing players.
With it I've won the CL twice as well as every Serie A, Coppa Italia, Super Coppa, Euro Cup, Club world cup i've played in.
Team instructions are: Higher Tempo, run at defense, play out of defense, exploit the middle, play wider and retain possession
Depending on the opposition formation I sometimes drop exploit the middle and adjust team width
When playing Challenging away matches I change my mentality from attacking to standard, set my wide defenders to defend duty and, when the opposition plays 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 drop play out of defense as they close down my defenders to quickly
as for players I choose shoot less often for everyone but the FWs, fewer risky passes for Kante Barbosa and all the defenders (except Bonucci), more direct passing for Bonucci, verratti, Saul and Dybala and stay wider for the fullbacks. Saul plays as an attacking B2B with more direct passing, dribble more and get forward further.
One more important note is that my GK distributes ball to the wide defenders so its key to have technically capable players in those positions (and the CBs too) or it really fucks up the building from the back
I could never get high line, offside trap or high closing down to work so i scrapped those
Biggest problem i've had with this team is that its vulnerable to quick counter attacks particularly ones based out wide which results in my midfield giving up more fouls than id like as they get back to stop opposing players.

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