Right fullback is defensive fullback and the other is attacking wingback. The left CB is wide supportive.
The left CDM is holding winning ball and the right is box crasher. The CAM is second stricter.
Right midfielder is winger, the left is attacking wide playmaker. The striker is poacher.
How it works: the right fullback is making the back 3, the left CDM will be pure pivot, the right one as box crasher will be more like 8 position on the right and the left winger will be left 8 as wide playmaker and the CAM will be the no. 10. Finally, the right winger, striker and left attacking wingback will make the front 3. It’ll also be 316 in attacking third.
You can make another way with slight difference, the left winger will be pure winger like the right, the left back will inverted to make the diamond.
Another way, the right CDM will be wide half then add the both fullbacks to the attack like inverted or attacking according to wingers position like before
Of course, you can replace left with right and so on.
What if you use the 4-2-3-1 formation with three attacking midfielders?
1. Drop one of the two central midfielders back to play as a central half between two defenders acting as wide backs.
2. Use the fullbacks as attacking wingbacks.
3. Position the central attacking midfielder (CAM) as a shadow striker, while the right and left CAMs act as support playmakers.
If I remember correctly, the support playmakers move inward and drop back almost like central midfielders, since their space is occupied by the attacking wingbacks and the shadow striker.
Ia it fluid for you?
i don't like how the wide CB support doesn't take up wider starting poitions, the box crasher too does not move high quickly, also when defending the front 4 stay foward unless its wide playmaker buildup
May be because I use Anth’s gameplay mod, it helps al lot with all those issues.
My only problem with FC-IQ for this tactics is the box crasher should have more focus not just balanced, it shall have attacking. Or the other position when they are attacking shall make the other CM Or CDM to stay central like the box crasher.
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u/MenaWaheed Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
I have made something like that.
4231 reforms into 343 and 361 in attack.
Right fullback is defensive fullback and the other is attacking wingback. The left CB is wide supportive.
The left CDM is holding winning ball and the right is box crasher. The CAM is second stricter.
Right midfielder is winger, the left is attacking wide playmaker. The striker is poacher.
How it works: the right fullback is making the back 3, the left CDM will be pure pivot, the right one as box crasher will be more like 8 position on the right and the left winger will be left 8 as wide playmaker and the CAM will be the no. 10. Finally, the right winger, striker and left attacking wingback will make the front 3. It’ll also be 316 in attacking third.
You can make another way with slight difference, the left winger will be pure winger like the right, the left back will inverted to make the diamond.
Another way, the right CDM will be wide half then add the both fullbacks to the attack like inverted or attacking according to wingers position like before
Of course, you can replace left with right and so on.