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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey
I have a serious problem on my hands. I've been playing my cousin in FIFA for years (always my man U vs his ac milan) and I used to dominate him, but the last 2 years we were pretty even and we played for the first time last night and I won 2, lost 3, and tied 3.
Problem 1:
He plays w/ 2 strikers (pato & robinho) and he scored 98% of his goals from breaking down the center of my Def. I play a 4-4-2 diamond (not the wide one) w/ the CDM w/ low attacking & high defensive duties. In the back and my rb & lb are pretty much worthless because they are too far out wide and my CB play too far off of the 2 ST to prevent them from getting the long ball which he always uses. Do I need to switch formations or man mark?
Problem 2:
He holds down the contain button on defense and I haven't figured out how to beat his defenders 1v1 w/ Rooney or Van Persie. I'm not that confident in skill moves or knocking it forward. Is this what I need to try?
Any tips or links to a youtube video are much appreciated.
I can't really help you just wanted to post that I too have had a really hard time breaking down the contain defense...well actually it's been more whenever I play with my friends ever since I completely stopped pressing b or really using slide tackles and just using A for the most part the games have been sort of uncompetitive and they have not been able to get past me at all really. But when I play someone online utilizing it I have had trouble. One obvious remedy is just spamming crosses because contain gives you plenty of space to get the cross off and the other remedy I have found is just simply getting the pass to the target man up front center right outside the box, the contain leaves enough space to make one move to either side and pull off an RB shot either way. I'm sure the soccer puritans will have better ideas, I'm not real knowledgeable about the game