Cheesing squad battles

I mentioned in a post about letting the ai get at least over the halfway line so that they actually attack so they don't just ball hog, even when losing. It's so stupid to have to play this way and goes against how I've played football games for years.

I play 4-2-3-1 wide, finesse+ on striker and cam, 88 pace on striker, cam has base incisive minimum, and just spam runs runs from deep. It's best to get accustomed to doing it when you have already completed squads for the week, purely from a timing stand point.

Spam runs from deep and easy finesse finish or even make a tiny bit of space with a finesse, and you can easily cheese 5 goals each game which is the max goals for bonus points. Some games will be tougher than others but I generally do legendary on anything below 80 rated, and world class on anything above. Then just play the 2 weekly squads on professional. It got me 35k this week, 32k last week, and can almost guarantee an easy elite 1 for the week. Admittedly, the score for elite 1 has gone up a bit this week, but the more people figure the AI out the more point total will rise.

If you play the way I do then you have to be confident in your defending at the back against the AI, mainly because it's easier to let them attack so you can win the ball back, but they are still dangerous. I wouldn't recommend it if you aren't confident, but it's genuinely the best way I've found to play against the current AI.

I use 4-1-3-2. Or a 4-4-2 Holding (2 CDMs). When using the latter, make sure at least 1 CDM has Relentless+. I usually set the player instructions to have 1 play a more defensive role, i.e., Center Half/Deep Lying Playmaker/Holding with focus on defensive support. The other is usually set to Playmaker/Box-to-Box with focus on Roaming or Balanced.

At the end of the day, it really comes down to your gameplay. The CPU will do the bare minimum in terms of support. You need to improve your defending by using the 2nd man press, quick tactics (D-Pad). Master the team press, offsides trap, team focus, tactical suggestions.

Good luck!

433 tactics is no longer working for me, can anyone give me some advice?

It also doesn't help that squad battles doesn't show any evos on cards, so some of cards may be different than it shows.

Always check the squad before hand. It's very easy to be trolled by the full bronze bench, I'm very much of the opinion that you risk nothing in squad battles. Especially with the way the AI plays this year.

EA trolled me this week. I looked at the squad and starting 11 were all 80+, 2 players were 85-rated players. The entire bench was bronze which brought the squad overall down to 70+. This lead me to believe I would be able to win on Legendary once the CPU made subs. I get into the game and the CPU takes the lead around minute 70'. The CPU did not make any subs until 89'. At that point, there was not enough time for me to equalize, let alone win.