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I've just had a disaster :o
There is a problem which occurs when changing a team's formation. I've seen this many times before. If you change only the formation for a second or third future match and save, it changes the formation of your next match, not the match you intend to change.

So, this is what's happened. I wanted to see the preview rating of a midfielder by changing my next reserve match to a 5-1-4 to see a specific player's preview rating. But, then got interrupted and had to walk away for a while. I didn't see that it had incorrectly changed today's match formation.

I've just come back and found out. Today's game has now already kicked off. I'm playing 5-1-4 with a couple of players out of position, but now, my one midfielder has been sent off and am now playing a 5-0-4.

Got to laugh.

Positive is that before the sending off I was, and at HT am still, 0-1 up.

I somehow got away with it.

Surprised that I won this game, away from home, against a tough opponent.

If you look at the passing stats of any game you can see that the IAG football philosophy is several decades behind modern post-tiki-taka tactics.

Evidently, even the best team in the game plays good old fashioned hoofball.

And it stands to reason that the more players you have to hoof to, and the more doing the hoofing, the better

Congrats on your unorthodox win

Back in the 1870s the preferred formation was 1-2-7. Now you might think that is backwards, but no. They used to play with 1 fullback, 2 halfbacks, and 7 forwards.

I remember reading a report about one early game between England and Scotland where one team utterly dominated the other by employing the til-then-unproven art of...players passing the ball to their teammates rather than just dribbling as far as they could

2-3-5 was the traditional lineup.

what?

In the 1880s through to the 1930s, yes.