So no Defensive Midfielder in your first eleven then. In view of that you could play a 433, but with your 3 midfielders all on the same line.
------------------- Lehmann ------------------
Lahm ------ Richards ----- Gallas ------ Clichy
------ Rosicky ---- Fabregas ---- Vaart ------
Kaka ---------------------------------- Vicente
------------------- Aguero --------------------
That's how Barcelona used to play, before signing Yaya Toure. Xavi, Deco and Iniesta, all creative attacking minded midfielders, the 3 of them in the middle. The extra man making up for the lack of a Defensive Midfielder.
You could have Van Der Vaart in the AMC position behind Aguero (as I think you do at present?), but he shoots an awful lot of (wasteful) long shots from there doesn't he? I play him in the midfield position because of that. Plus, with only 2 midfielders behind him who are not very defensive minded, it could be a weak spot.
For defensive games, you could put the two midfielders who are beside the central midfielder, on Forward Runs Mixed, and leave the central midfielder on Forward Runs Often. For attacking games, the other way around, the central one on Mixed, and the other two flanking him on Often.
I find that for Passing, it works better for me if the whole team is on the same type of Passing, even if on slightly different levels. Same for the Mentality. And I try and employ a Tempo to suit the Passing style. Slow-ish for Short, Normal for Mixed, Quick-ish for Direct.
You can't go too wrong if you more or less stick to that.
Hope that helps some.
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