Today was my first league match, and I was as excited as a paedophile in a playground. I wanted to do my Jose Mourinho thing and try out the 4-3-3. I usually play 3-5-2 like my opponent. I had 2-3 players at 70-75% of their capacity, but their overall rating was a little higher than my friend's. I thought I'd go for it. I tell myself that I'm going to attack on the wings as he only has 3 defenders and my 4 defenders will do the job in defence with an MDC.

To my unpleasant surprise, from the start of the match possession wasn't in my favour - 20/80, you might say, quite normal for the start of a match. He dominated me on the wings in defence, in midfield I could have guessed with his formation, but in attack I wasn't punchy enough either.

As a result, I was chasing possession all game and even at the 60th minute, with a red from his side, I only scored one goal.

So I'm going to forget about my coaching skills and stop this training ^^ .
How do you play this formation on your side? Or not?

All the formations are playable, you just need players to boost the style of play that will improve the area of your choice.
In 4-3-3, technical play or short passes.

Skyz: Toutes les formations sont jouables il faut juste des joueurs pour booster le style de jeu qui améliorera la zone de ton choix.
En 4-3-3 du jeu technique ou du passes courtes donc.

Yes, I think it's a formation that requires fairly precise skills and players who are fairly complete in their positions. I didn't see the midfield and the possession seemed excessive to me - 20/80 is 10 against 11 at that level. With 10 men, he didn't go below 50%.

Moshi: Bonjour, aujourd’hui premier match de championnat, tout excité comme un pedophile dans une cour de récré j’ai voulu faire mon Jose Mourinho est tester le 4-3-3. Je joue d’habitude en 3-5-2 comme mon adversaire du jour. J’avais 2-3 joueurs à 70-75% de leurs capacité mais sinon note globale un peu plus supérieur que celui du copain. Je me dis que que je vais attaquer sur les ailes comme il n’a que 3 défenseurs et mes 4 défenseurs feront le taff en défense avec un MDC.

À ma mauvaise surprise d...

I don't think you made any bad choices, in terms of defence if you blocked the corridor he would have eaten you in all 3 sectors, given the xg you would very well have finished 1/1 or even won :)

Sun's: Je pense pas que tu ais fait de mauvais choix, niveau défense si tu bloquer couloir il t'aurais manger sur les 3 secteurs , au vue des xg tu aurais très bien pû finir 1/1 voir gagner :)

Thanks for your feedback, yes the xG reassures me given the way the game went ... it was a 3 result but it was super realistic. I don't think I'll try again because we lost too much in the middle.

4-3-3, 5,3,2 or whatever... it doesn't matter in vf.
The goal of vf is to have the most stats no matter the composition you can play 5-1-4 and have possession or 5-5-0 and have 400 offensive stats.

Was it a real 4-3-3 without mol with asc on the left and right and mdc on the left/right/centre?

Hello Moshi

It's nice to see people asking questions about tactics.

Do you know how the different styles of play work?

For info, the counter-attacking style, for example, doesn't mean that you're going to play counter-attacking like in real life, it just means that you're going to boost your attacking and defensive stats by lowering your midfield.

On VF it's not the formation that counts, it's the balance of power in each sector!

In terms of possession, the greater the delta between your midfield and your opponent's, the more you have!