You cam choose to let your team get based on a counter attack style of game. This is an interesting variation, but i do not think it will be of much use to you. Needless to say it can be played only if you have set your team to a defensive or mabe normal mentality. So, speaking for myself, since most of the times i deploy an attacking mentality, i leave counter attack to no.

However, it should be noted that there are a couple of exceptions to this rule:

• First of all when you are at the end of the game and you are maybe one goal ahead, you can use a defensive style of play and set the team to counter attack. This can sometimes work. Although through my experience over the years, using the defensive mentalilty will result in the opposistion scoring most of the times, the cpunter attack formation will usually let you score as well and thus win the game. Especially works if the opposition is pressing you really hard and you have a fast attacker .
• Sometimes it can be useful when managing a small lower division club. Then you might have to use defensive and counter attack formation.
• There is one special case this formation is great for. The following mostly applies to the CM 2000/2001, but still sommetimes to the newer versions. If you were playing against Barcelona in Nou Camp in the 2000/01 then you would most likely suffer a really heavy defeat. This was true for both me and most of my friends playing the game, and we usually ended the matches with some 20 shots against and 4-5 for. Awful stats, and maybe a 1-5 score. The defensive-counter attack formation seemed to be the only one able to stop Barca in these cases, with a very very defensive 4-3-2-1 formation, with the striker just in front of the center line. Sounds crazy, but it has happened many times to me!

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