Sounds like you might want Play Out of Defense and Short Passing on if you want avoid the hoofball you're seeing. There will usually be lots of short passing options in that formation.
Also sounds like your striker might be getting isolated. You could change your IF to an IF-A, and one of your midfielders to CM-A. That would get more support in the box, and perhaps you wouldn't be ending a lot of moves by fruitlessly crossing into your lone striker.
Just making those simple changes would lead you to being a lot more dynamic in attack, IMO.