Help me with my Chelsea tactic

[bartul]

HI I just started a chelsea save, my team played very well in preseason and then i come to community shield vs. Man. United, and i had the worst defeat ever in my FM carer they crushed me 6-0
Here are my players and tactics i used in preseason and in CS:
......Drogba...Hulk........
Malouda..............Kalou
.....Lampard...Essien.....
Cole..Alex.....Terry...Ivanovic
...............Cech...................
Subs(some of the players werent in the 1st team only beacouse they joined me couple of days before)
Hilario
R.Shawcross
Bosingwa
Ramires
Ganso
E.Hazard
Zhirkov
Y.benayoun
Anelka
Neymar
J.Navas(he is coming in couple of days)

Obviusly i need BIG changes so, which formation should i use and which team instructions
PLEASE HELP ME

 

[rekpe]

don't get too disheartened with just one lost, how long have you been playing fm?
I might not be an expert but to play this game you need to do a lot of trial and error

 

[Pottsy]

First of all, where's Torres and Luiz?

I'd play the two wingers as Inside Forwards, play Essien as a Ball Winning Midfielder, Give Lampard a license to roam and play him as an Advanced Playmaker. Use Drogba as a Complete Forward, I personally don't think Hulk is the best striker, I'd use Neymar or Anelka as a Poacher or Deep Lying Forward.

I've never found Kalou to be the best in my saves, so put Navas or Hulk on the right and simply rotate. Hazard will become the perfect replacement for Malouda very quickly, so just rotate him in every once in a while for the first season so he get used to the team. Kalou is a good fourth striker to have.

In time you will want to adapt your formation to put in an Attacking Midfielder in order to fit Ganso in correctly.

Just what I'd do (H)