Ultra attacking 41212 wide guide
Hello All,
With almost everyone running 4213/4411 and how much congested the center of the pitch made me frustrated like 100s of posts we see here. Once you lose possession against this setup, it's a direct pinged pass to the free CAM and most of the time it will be a first time lobbed through and goal. This kept me thinking and the best way to counter this is to have a single holding CDM at the center of the pitch. I tried the 41212 narrow variation and the counters were stopped for an extent, however the midfield was so congested in div 1 and high elo players in wl. So i tried the 41212 wide variation and found it incredible fun.
I have played two WL and one full week of rivals with this setup. It took me some time to get comfortable in defending with just one CDM in the center of the pitch, but with how rushed people attacks it's not much of a difference. Your manual defending will improve tons as you cannot blindly push towards one player under the hope that your other CDM will cover space. The wingers will tuck in as there are no CM's in those areas and they defend and tackle just as good any mid fielder due to their agility and balance.
Now coming to the setup.
Formation: 41212 wide
Roles and instructions:
GK: Sweeper keeper
RB : Attacking wingback on balanced: Get some one with ++ for this role. Without ++ they will not track back. I have untradeable UCL frimpong here and he run faster than the ball to stop counters. This player is one of the most important player in this setup as he will be making lots of forward runs. I have scored many goals and assists with RB.
LB : Wing back/full back on balanced.
CDM : Holding ++. I use base Matuidi here. Intercept is a must have play style here. He is the gate keeper against the CAM of opposition.
CAM : Shadow striker. This is your main goal scorer. Get some one with good finishing. I have used the new Maddison, SBC Cryuff, Del pierro, Zola etc here. All played well. 5 *wf is nice to have here as this player will be popping up everywhere in the box.
RM : Inside forward on balanced : Get some one with good passing here as he is like a play maker in your team. With the rb on AWB role, he will sit little inside parallelly to the CAM. I use him to spread the play.
Generally the opposition FB will try to press this player leaving plenty of gaps for the RB to run into. A simple one two with RM-CAM or RM-RST will get the RB behind the space all the time.
Also RM will sit at the center of the pitch in vacant space when you attack from left side. So finesse ps+ is nice to have here.
LM : Inside forward attack: He will normally keep the width on left side till your LB overlaps.
RST : Target man attack : Target man is really underrated, he doesn't have to be the typical tall striker as well. I have used the new Dalglish, Vlahovic, free Bamford card here. I found Dalglish works the best due to his base tiki taka and pinged pass PS. He will sit in front of the CB's and will be always available for a pass. Use him to make passes to your LM, LST,CAM and RB. With target man, the CAM will make lots of runs past the CB. If the defender tracks those runs, i turn and make passes out wide.
LST : Advanced forward attack. This is your second highest goal scorer, this player will make lots of decoy runs for your LM to cut inside.
Setup :
Build up : Balanced
Defending : Aggressive. This is a must as the main defending is done through pressing right after your loose possession.
https://reddit.com/link/1i10a17/video/yjwxucpgnwce1/player
See the run RB makes here, people are generally not prepared for attacking full backs you will be able to get lots of joy in attacking with your full backs like in real.
https://reddit.com/link/1i10a17/video/rmgvtevtnwce1/player
See how congested the middle of the pitch is in 4213. I have used the width of the pitch to drag his full back out wide and triggered a decoy run from RM to make space for pass. See how the RST made a run outside the full back and LM came inside unmarked.
Try to spread the play and use the full width of pitch to drag players all over. This is an incredible attacking setup and your will have passing options everywhere. Don't worry if you concede early, your will score plenty with this setup. I starting scoring tons of goals and the games normally end to end as your opponent also will have space to attack.
I request who over trying this to try for at least 8 games to get a hang of the movements you get in attacking. I will add more game play clips if anyone is interested.
PS: While this shines against the common 4411, 4213 and 433 variations, this struggles against 451 variations. As you will get overloaded in the mid field.
Code : vwHzRaE46RH