Won Premier League in First Season with Crystal Palace - 442 Counter Attack

Absolutely sensationally won the Premier League title in the first season with Crystal Palace, the worst team i'd ever won it with (sorry Palace fans). VERY FAST, VERY POWERFUL, VERY AGGRESIVE AND ATTACKING 442 OLD SCHOOL ENGLISH SYSTEM. So i basically wanted to recreate Blackburn 1995, have a flat back 4, with two deep midfielders, and then rely upon getting the ball forward very quickly to the front 4, with the wingers putting in crosses to the front two, as Ripley and Wilcox did for Shearer and Sutton. I also wanted some aggression in the tackle, ala Colin Hendry and David Batty and Tim Sherwood. I've done a lot of analysis of the tactic now, i believe one of the foundations of the victory was the determination we scored SO many goals in the 75th + minute - if you see from the mental characteristics of the players (see BLOG), their determination is off the charts. We also won a lot of tackles, and watching the games the amount of sliding tackles going on was ridiculous. I think determination seems to marry well with the counter attacking mentality, as well as the high team work, work rate, bravery, aggression, and the high pace and acceleration of our wide players and strikers. You can subscribe to the tactic from the steam workshop http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1209247153 You can download the tactic also from mediafire http://www.mediafire.com/file/czsw83zxevde2t0/palace10-1nice.fmf This also has a link to the overload version of the tactic which i use when chasing a game, e.g. 1 or 2 nil down, or drawing 0-0 at 60 minutes. From steam workshop http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1209309704 From mediafire http://www.mediafire.com/file/hv19q2rd88u16p7/rescuetacticpalace.fmf This was quite important in the victory, we won a lot of points from coming back from behind or turning 0-0's into wins. Second season, I've just come back from behind twice to beat Man City 5-2. I assume part of the reason for this was the determination though, as well as the stamina, we were often far more fit than our opponents. I think having strong dynamics was also really important, and i focussed upon this straight from day one in training (see season two early season training schedules ON BLOG). I'll be really interested to know how anyone else gets on testing the tactic, or tweaking it to the demands of their teams. I'm going to test it with a completely different club now and see how it goes. Maybe with out the determined players, and the aggression and pace it might not work so well ? I also made a blog post to give a little more info about it, cos i think it's a really exciting tactic https://footballmanager2017dotblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/the-classic-english-442-counter-attack/ You can see that it's essentially a structured tactic (which should marry well with less expressive and playing offside). It's a very quick tempo which obviously marries well with width, exploiting flanks and mixed passing. I didn't find pass into space provided any benefit though weirdly, but maybe at a club with better passers it might ? As i said we were very aggressive in the tackle, and OI's were set to the AM, but i set every position to Hard Tackling also. Obviously we used Run At Defence, although no overlapping used, as the wingers are set to attack functions. Here's another video showing the advantages of playing around with the tactic within the games - in this video - we find success switching to a 4-2-4 counter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW0laJmaxJI&t=60s