First of I think third place with duisburg is amazing. Secondly, its a minor thing but at the left, it shows your team is not familiar with your tactic yet. Usually the best results come when the team is familiar with the tactic
I usually do when playing with a wing back that can't defend. More and more you find these backs with marking/tackling/positioning ~9-13, but amazing attacking stats. Why not retrain a pacey defensive midfielder with good crossing abilities to a defensive winger
I think TheBetterHalf already cleared up a lot for you, but you might also have a look at your players preferred moves. For instance setting a striker that likes to come get the ball deep as a poacher won't work. The same goes for your inside forward that might like to stay wide. Also speeding...
Only thing I can think of is that you push up quite high and you play quite narrow. There is little space for your bbm and if to roam into. I suppose your ap is also set to roaming, the same goes for him.
This might not necessarily be an issue. But in your tactic it is. You combine that little...
It all depends on how you play him/your team. When setting him up as treq or dlf you can't judge him by the amount of goals seeing as his main objective isn't to score goals.
I think the main issue is whether or not you are creating chances. How many chances on average do you create that should be goals?
When you can't create chances it's definately your tactic. When you create 10 ccc's per game it's definately not the tactic;)
You might want to have your target man run from deep often. Also is your target man set to attack?
Floating crosses might also be the cause of crosses ending up at your other winger.
These tactics you mention are heavily tested and should work (with some minor tweaks). This being said, no one can help you with this little amount of information. The formation you use does not determine how much possession you have. The way you set your team up and the way you set up the...
When playing with a high defensive line and closing down all over the pitch, you will need players that really work for your team. A treq does not offer anything when your team does not have the ball. I would not suggest combining ONE treq with a heavily closing down formation. You are using...
I was wondering what way you guys train your players.
I currently run all trainings with the focus balanced and the intensity average. The scheduling (more/less match training) 3/5 ticks to the right. On top of that I have everyone on a positional individual training schedule that fitts them...
Play them both as poacher and use Ben arfa as Attacking mid behind them. Be sure to let Cisse run from deep as often as possible and Ba sometimes. Should work.