Post Your Formations when Playing aginst HUMANS

[Muse]

I'm reading a lot of posts in a lot of boards about formations but they all talk about formations against the COM (That's not very hard)...

I would like to see the best formations to play against human players (much more difficult)...

If you could explain where the playerrs are located in the pitch and the arrows in attack and defense it would be great...

I, myself am more of an attack player... usually paly a 3-2-1-4 formation

--------------gk-----------------

--------------CB-----------------
------CB--------------CB--------

--DM------------------------DM--

---------------CM-----------------


RW----------------------------LW

----------------------CF----------

------------CF--------------------


I'm open to your suggestions

 

[-=[101st]=-]

i tend to use the default formation for each team... except i push a few players around a little...

 

[Mick03]

4-4-2 diamon, with a few players changed, i never use the orinagal team selection, dont know why?

 

[pelepele]

we have a rule of using defaults only subs allowed

 

[Zygalski]

What is the point of that rule, pelepele? To save time in setting up formations?

 

[pelepele]

yeah to save time and to play with the teams 'real' formation

(i have edited the formations for most teams beforehand)

 

[Ranieri Iz God]

i change mine depening on the opposition's formation plus I also Man Mark there best player with 3 of my players. Works all the time

 

[o0oGedo0o]

I would like to see the best formations to play against human players

i play 4-3-3 triangle shapes it's the first formation in 4-3-3 that is when i play with HUMAN players though when i play against aliens i change my formation into crop circle 4-3-3 just kidding man, don't get sad okies ?

 

[Nifty1Pound50]

Me 'n' my mate who I play against regularly have a rule that you can change the formation as much as possible, but can only make one change to the starting line-up (to avoid a complete re-vamp).

Also, it stops the other person from playing the "cheat" wingers.

 

[Jasper]

4-4-2 is good with arsenal.....all depends what team you are.

 

[Zygalski]

Nifty, what do you mean by:

the "cheat" wingers.

gedo nice joke there pal

I don't see the point of all these restrictions to fixing your team. If you let someone fix the team as best they can, it shouldn't take that much longer (save it to your mem card if you like) and if they lose, they know that it was down to the way they played and not certain restrictions.

I usually play 4-4-2 but I'm currently tinkering with formations to find some different ones. The thing is... playing against the CPU is quite different to human (or alien ) opposition so it's not an easy thing to plan. I think that playing 2 DMFs works well against other people. My ideal formation would maybe be a 4-2-3-2 but that isn't allowed so I'll have to see where I can manage without a player (not that the 12th man would be there but you know what I mean).

I made a funky 2-4-4 the other day.
2 CBs, diamond midfield and 4 attackers. Worked great against the CPU. I didn't try it against anyone else but I don't think it would work.

When someone figures out the ideal formation to use against people, do let us know. Just for reference, the winner of the recent North Vs South tournament used the default France formation, 4-2-2-2 with his superstar Master League team. And this is also the formation that David Sefah (UK PES2 champ, and losing South Finalist [IMO, 3rd overall]) uses.

 

[bish1]

4-2-2-2 is a nice formation

i use it against human players with my ml team

record with it 4-2-2-2:
W D L
11 0 5

 

[-=[101st]=-]

when elfinke and i had a few games over the recent holidays we wont go into results *cough* I won 2 games to 1 *cough* we almost needed to turn the sound down because of the annoying beeping as we knew exactly what we needed to do.. but.. i make a few subs.. thats it really... i dont like pelepele's rule about the default formation.. because some teams are limited by their formation i.e. France's formation blows goats... it is just as bad as it was in PES2...

 

[emoevo]

--------gk----------
rd------cb---------ld
------dm--dm-------
rm----------------lm
--------cm----------
------rf----lf--------

 

[Foxhound]

default formation

 

[manolete]

I think the best formation is 4-2-4, specially if you got quick forwards to take advantage of the counter attacks...and even 4-1-5 could be useful if you are very good at defense. However, I consider as the most balanced for human players the 4-3-3 B.

 

[Fab]

There should'nt be a certain formation you use just against humans.
you should use a formation that works best with the team your playing with.
but obviously you dont want to use a stupid formation like 2 in defense or something like that just choose a formation that allows you to play your best players.

 

[Zygalski]

And what if you already have a great formation which lets you beat the CPU easily but when you play other people, you start to lose heavily? You need something different.

 

[joerog]

I have a mate who puts as many strikers in the team as possible. He puts all the sub strikers in midfield and midfielders in wing backs. It actually works quite well!

 

[Fab]

And what if you already have a great formation which lets you beat the CPU easily but when you play other people, you start to lose heavily? You need something different.

What iam saying is if your playing with france for example, you dont want to play 5 in the back and 1 up front because it restricts you from using your better players, france are best with there attackers and midfieders so you want to put more players in them positions. You dont just want three in midfield for France because they have so many class midfielders, you dont want talent wasted on the bench.
If you want to beat a human player you have to use a formation that suits your team of players, and another thing is that you want to use a strategy that will be deadly against the other team.
What i mean is say your playing against a team with 3 in attack, obviously you dont want to play 3 in defense because they would muller you so you play 4 or maybe 5.
you could use this to your advantage by trying it yourself, Real madrid are weak in defense so put more attackers on, and your saying what about when they attack?well you put a heavy defense aswell which will leave your midfield weak but this is to your advantage because they will have trouble scoring against your strong defense but when you boot it up field for the counter attack you will have a greater chance of scoring compared to them because your attack is strong and there defense is weak.
work out what formation your mate is doing first then play against his strategy by working and strengthen your team in the areas his team are weak.
another example is say your friend has played a 4-3-3 and his midfielders are all centre midfield, then you play wingers and whip in those crosses he cant defend, all you need is a strong defense strong midfield and play the big guy up front to win those headers, 4-5-1,5-4-1.