Tactic’s
One of the most basic of strategy's here on ML is to view your oppents tactic's and Counter them as best you can,
this can be done by clicking a link to ur opponents team and viewing thier previous fixtures,
most of the time managers will use thier bset possible line up which will always be the same,
view thier last few match's and take note of the tactics used, then use the following table to judge what formation you will use to counter,
use these against teams with higher Q than your own, but be aware your team will be less effective if your Understanding team training stat is fairly low,
Personally i would use your regular and strongest team setup untill your Understanding is at least 80
General Tips
- Longballs beat continental, mixed beats longball and continental beats mixed.
- Dont use high pressure if your opponents attackers is much faster than your defenders.
- If you play with just one playstyle, your team will get better at that playstyle, but worse in the others.
- 4-4-2 is good against defensive formations
- 4-3-3 is bad against formations with lots of midfielders
- Longballs works well with many attackers, like in a 4-3-3 formation.

Opponents Line-up         Best Formation

5-4-1   Continental                                   4-3-3                        Longballs
5-4-1   Longballs                                      3-6-1                        Mixed
5-4-1   Mixed                                     3-6-1                       Continental
5-3-2   Continental                                   4-3-3                        Longballs
5-3-2   Longballs                                      4-4-2  4-3-3             Mixed
5-3-2   Mixed                                     3-6-1  4-5-1            Continental
4-5-1   Continental                                   3-4-3  3-3-4  3-5-2  Longballs
4-5-1   Long balls                                     3-5-2                       Mixed
4-5-1   Mixed                                      3-5-2   3-6-1          Continental
4-4-2   Continental                                   4-3-3  3-4-3             Longballs
4-4-2   Longballs                                      4-3-3                        Mixed
4-4-2   Mixed                                     3-5-2 4-4-2  3-4-3   Continental
4-3-3   Continental                                   4-4-2  4-3-3             Longballs
4-3-3   mixed                                     4-4-2                        Continental
4-3-3   Long balls                                    5-3-2  4-3-3  4-5-1   Mixed
4-2-4   Continental                                  5-3-2                        Longballs
4-2-4   Longballs                                      5-3-2                        Mixed
4-2-4   Mixed                                    5-4-1  4-5-1             Continental
3-6-1   Continental                                  4-2-4                         Longballs
3-6-1   Longballs                                     4-2-4                         Longballs
3-6-1   Mixed                                    3-6-1                        Continental
3-5-2   Continental                                  4-3-3  3-4-3              Longballs
3-5-2   Longballs                                     3-4-3                         Mixed
3-5-2   Mixed                                     3-5-2                       Continental
3-4-3   Continental                                  4-3-3                         Longballs
3-4-3   Longballs                                     4-4-2                         Mixed
3-4-3   Mixed                                    4-5-1  5-4-1             Continental
3-3-4   Continental                                  5-3-2                        Longballs
3-3-4   Longballs                                     5-3-2  5-4-1              Mixed
3-3-4   Mixed                               5-4-1                       Continental

(recent quote on forum by Ancelotte1)
For everyone reading as far low as this.
These Formations/Tactics are just suggestions to get the upper hand, they are ofcourse not a given win!
There is a good possibility to win with the opposite of these advices, but then there are other factors wich comes to play