Changed wide strikers from CFa to CFs; moved BWM to DM and changed to HB; changed wingbacks to WBa from WBs and changed from mixed crosses to low crosses.
Edit: also changed CBs from stoppers to just a defend duty.
Tried this tactic with the tweaks above and a few more of my own. Picked Juve for a trial run. Beat a full strength Milan 6-2 in a pre-season friendly, playing with 10 men for 50 minutes.
My tweaks also mean't that in spite of the incredibly direct playing style that we dominated possession...
The .xml goes into Editor Data.
The .ddt goes into
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\football manager 2012\data\db\1220\edt
I'm making a few edits for myself so it starts in 2011 so there are no qualifiers, and no injuries to players .etc