Hard to Beat

[jrushton90]

I'm looking for a tactic that is hard for teams to break down. A bit like how Jose Mourinho sets his teams up in the champions league to grind out results, but also carries that attacking threat on counter attack.

Can anyone help?

 

[ChivuStoica]

I've found that a 4-2-3-1 Deep tends to be a good formation for grinding out 1-0, 2-1 type results with weaker teams. I've used a counter/control mentality depending on whether I'm the favorite or not, but I suppose you could experiment with that since I don't claim to have invented any spectacularly good tactic or anything.