About what you said about Daraba and Sa. Daraba maybe have this trait but I rarely see him making those cuts inside that I am looking for him to do while having the ball at his feet that i gave him a PI to do it but he is way wider that i anticipated and gives a lot of great passes ti players getting into the box like my AP or AM. it's one of the main reason my AP scored 18 goals and AM scored 16, most of his assist were to one of them or a hockey assist because of it.
Although see him cutting a lot for the wing to the center when he is off ball and getting behind the defence
About the shape when losing the ball. in the first tactic the DM is sitting like that and it creates a good "diamond" for me against counters + my left back is quite fast(16 pace) and is he usually get forward only when the attack is coming from his side and when it's on the other side he is staying back and it looks mostly like a 1-2 -2 "diamond" that transition to a 2-3 quickly with the IFB
here you can see it pretty good.
Daraba is here after a dribble on the wing, Sa is cutting inside while the AM is near him and running to the middle of the box. Sa is passing it to the striker Lenormand that in one touch scores it.
and Edu sanchez here is the LWB and you can see the diamond
Yeah currently I tried using your tips but It's not really working good enough and we don't have a lot of possesion and the build up is not good enough. the DM is too isolated and against the press his passes are not good enough.
I am not married to any kind of formation of a sort. I just want to try to incorporate my new player in the first line up to work well with my 3 other established "stars" and currently it is just not going well
do you think maybe I should try a whole different approach here? maybe the idea just sounds well in my head but not in the game