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[Joss]

Are your full-backs very attacking? I had been playing with two wing-backs, but found it was too easy for wingers to get in behind them and create chances. That's also partly because my wide-forward players don't track back enough - if you have two sets of very attacking wide players, then you're liable to getting hit on the counter-attack via the wide areas.

An adjustment I usually do when playing teams like Stoke -- with big strikers and a focus on getting the ball wide or playing long-ball -- is just to push the defensive line up a little bit, and increase the width as well; in the knowledge that John Carew isn't especially likely to run in behind my defence with extraordinary pace. That way it doesn't take as long for your full-backs to close down the opposition wingers and they're forced inside, where they're not as strong.

Could be opposition instructions as well? Make sure you're closing down their wingers, and if they're just dribbling past your players, tick "hard tackling". Never mark fast players tightly - the movement of people like Darren Bent for lack of a better example will confuse your defenders and they'll get in behind 8 times out of 10 I find.

 

[TheEquinox]

Use a deep defensive line and manually make you fullbacks play a little more offensive and challenging more aggressive. That usually drives the opponent crossing players into rather playing short passes towards the middle.

 

[rhhthsrthr]

Are your full-backs very attacking? I had been playing with two wing-backs, but found it was too easy for wingers to get in behind them and create chances. That's also partly because my wide-forward players don't track back enough - if you have two sets of very attacking wide players, then you're liable to getting hit on the counter-attack via the wide areas.

An adjustment I usually do when playing teams like Stoke -- with big strikers and a focus on getting the ball wide or playing long-ball -- is just to push the defensive line up a little bit, and increase the width as well; in the knowledge that John Carew isn't especially likely to run in behind my defence with extraordinary pace. That way it doesn't take as long for your full-backs to close down the opposition wingers and they're forced inside, where they're not as strong.

Could be opposition instructions as well? Make sure you're closing down their wingers, and if they're just dribbling past your players, tick "hard tackling". Never mark fast players tightly - the movement of people like Darren Bent for lack of a better example will confuse your defenders and they'll get in behind 8 times out of 10 I find.

My fullbacks are on support. But thanks for the advise as I'll try it. It's just they make perfect crosses from deep. So my fullbacks are quite helpless.