EAFC 24 4-3-3 (5) Thread

Current team.

Son is basically David Villa, I don't really use his finesse shots, but they are pretty good. Pedro and Al Owairan switch around a bit. Pedro is more fun, but sometimes I need that stupid pace from Al Owairan to break through defences. Clasie is that man at CDM, basically Kante. 

Packed Pedro RTTK, Teze and Clasie after I bought them, so I got some more spots for tradeable players back. So now Dest and Berbatov are my tradeable players, but I will replace Dest with Sugawara when I get him later this week. So that's 2 spots for the 3 bought players.

Will probably spend some coins on a new LCB, Darmian sucks and I might get a new LB as Smal is just average.

@bertkees Why I want him mate, as good as KDB is with the pressing from teams I want someone who can turn with the ball easy and ping an accurate pass. 

Valverde is quality to do the donkey work tbh

@freddfranca I am mate, it's good to go down the right hand side and play some of the ladder football but I find switching to the left wing has loads of space 

I'm gonna be adding your 4411 to the mix as well when I get back on 

Lol, made some changes to my tactics already. LW now gets back on defense, while the RW stays forward. Makes it so I can defend in a 4-4-2 with my RCM covering the RM-position.

Also got in Aouar for Brandt, as he's one of my favorite FIFA-players since his first futmas. Dybala is also an excellent alternative to Lautaro, that offers slightly less in the physicality, but a lot more in his technical ability.

I don't know if is something in my head, but for me my female team plays very different from a male team. I just can't play the same way with both.

I will test my 4231 offensive tonight,  I really want to make this girl teams work but it's being hard to do it 🤣

Good to see the King of changing his team back in the forum! 🙌

Have been grinding away at Squad battles since early access and just got my reward with RTTK Dembele from the 300 assists pack.

RTG again this year- with the long-term project being a Chelsea XI- so planning to use pack/Obj only in my main XI.

All untradeable

Evo Mudryk-Evo Werner-RTTK Dembele 

Bernado silva-Sangara- Bellingham

Reinaldo-Evo Badiashille-Militao-James

Donnarumma

The team is more than good enough to take into rivals now- I hate Dembele (on fifa) with a passion- been bugging me for ages that his card is always so so good. Card is just to good not to use though lol, so here we are. 

Need to pack someone for LB as Reinaldo isnt good going forward- Timo Werner on 0 chem not ideal either. 

Not done any of the SBC grinding I usually do at the start of the game (as put coins into EVO Mudryk)- Might buy Nkunku as he will be full chem and I've got 56k coins, but wanna see her 0 chem Werner gets on in rivals first.

Pretty good pack luck so far- think EA know I quit in November last year 😃

Evening all

Glad to see a 433 thread back up! Used to love the non meta thread on the fifa forum

I'm running 433(5) and having variable success. Finding it hard to create patterns of play in the middle of the park. Feel like the only way I get success is to play out through my wide men

Is anyone else having success with the 5? 

My current team is 

Simon

Alba

Laporte 

Parades

Llorente

Pedri

Busquets

Gavi

Fati (evo

Messi

Kubo

Finally I am being capable of win some games. Not much coins for now, but at least the team is playing some good games.

Did some SB-grinding yesterday and got Modric & Frenkie.

Naturally built a new team around them.

Kept my favorite winger in Pedro, as he was better than Kvara for me.

Had the option of using Alaba/Rudiger along side Darmian, but chose to keep my CBs for now. I think the jockey-playstyle really suits my defending and defending is the hardest part of the game.

Rolfö/Guijarro was two cards I've been looking at since I bought the game.

IG I set up like this with the custom tactics and instructions I posted a couple of days ago.

One of Pedro and Mostovoi will drop deep when in possession, allowing me to out-man a lot of formations in midfield.

RM/LM makes clever runs on the outside, especially with the hug the toucline-setting activated, they'll have a lot of goals assists and are often available out wide.

The 3 CBs will keep the 2 strikers in check and the wide CBs job is to keep the ball carrier outside of the box until the RM/LM comes back.

Modric and Patri will just help me control the game, both are able to do it all, and although I ask them to stay back when attacking, they are my best option when I want to rotate the ball from one flank to the other flank to open up space.

I'm gonna try to start with Lewa/Woj, I might swap them for Maignan/Griezmann later, but so far I've preferred to have a naturally strong striker, that can win aerials and offers something different to my two CFs, and my squad has enough pace elsewhere. 

Issues so far with the tactic, is the issue that'll always be there for 3atb, as they have to come over to defend the wide spaces, there will always be a bit of room on the opposite flanks.

Other issue is that if I play to fast, the rest of the team struggles to keep up and everything is a bit messy. (Team looks like a 4-4-2 off the ball, with Rolfö coming in to play LB and Mostovoi dropping into the LM-position, so 4-4-2-shenanigans is possible, but team isn't really built for fast transitional football..)

Edit: 

I'm aware that my luck is used up for a while with the Modric/Frenkie pulls.

The problem I eventually ran into with the 4-3-3(5) was that the FBs needed to step up to invert which suited the 4-4-2-meta poorly, as people willingly just try to run it down the wing and turn back and forth until they find the space. Tried different variations, where one FB was overlapping and the other stayed put, with one of the CMs restricting and the winger on that side having free roam, but going full 3 atb, gives me the exact structure I want vs. 2 strikers, so will use that as a starting formation going forward. 

(Against one forward I'll still prefer the (5) )