u/Tlou_man — reddlx

I have seen some ppl complaining abt QC defencing high line and that "only one through ball and u are dead "

I thought that the counters and through balls issue were deadly problems with this playstyle and that i should go back to possesion till i found this two half solutions

1-The cause of high line defence is high pressing so ur cbs stay in touch with amfs and forwards since ur midfielders are pressing the opponennts mids

So u have to play with 2 pivots ( orcheaster ,anchor man, can be a build up cb too) instructing both or at least one of them ( depends in the opponents formation ) to stay in defence while attacking to solve the high press problem .

They will be the one who starts pressing the building up forwards (ss,amf) . That could leave a bit of space in the midfield for long shots but it's most likely to get blocked

while the other 2 cbs stay in behind doing the next .

2- first i prefer my cbs to be build up so they are more likely to stay in behind in such a formation .

We have reduced the amount of through balls but u still have to tight mark the opponents most likely players to receive dangerous through , long balls , crosses etc who are in the most of the cases are the (cf,ss) that will make ur cbs very able to interrupet the ball before reaching the forward or makes it hard for them to have a good shooting angle without a block

And for building play and attacking

To build from the back i use both flanks to get past attacking players and make it reach to one of the 3 amfs (could be an amf and rm/lm ) searching for through balls or create angles for power shots or curlers

Clearly from the left side that i free up GVB (who is ur offensive wingback ) from staying in the back since he can cover bothe ends of the pitch and hopefully could make the overlap or get the 1-2 with left amf

From the right it depends if the opponent is playing with wingers i am instructing the Left DMF and ferrer(who could be in this case any defensive fullback) to stay in the back freeing up the Right dmf to start building play with the amf trio .

If the opponent goes with a team with no wingers like 4-1-2-1-2 i am starting cafu(the offensive wingback ) instructing both dmfs to stay in the back and he does the same as GVB but a lil bit worse but he can still back it up

And for attacking counters as qc is about pressing high ur both dmfs are the main guys in pressing here , when ever they steal the ball try to give fast passes or running in spaces untill u reach the goal and create a big chance

I prefer playing with 3 amfs or (rm/lm and amf ) so they press dms and cmfs making it harder to build up for the opponent

This tactics made me avg 0.7 gc/game in the last 10 games in div 2 and 2.5 gf/game .9W/1D/0L reaching div 1