Defense is the best offense. If you play with a higher tempo and have players with good vision, you can create more chances. Most of the assists for me come from the wide players
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I mentioned that in the descriptions. But it's all up to you, what you like and the results you see with the players you have. Me personally I use the 433 and 3511 the most now because I was able to buy better players after winning the CL. You can also study your opponents team report and look...
Using all 3 of these tactics throughout the season will grant you success. If you can't break a team down with one, switch to another tactic mid game, you will be hailed as a "tinkerer" and "tactician" in the game...
It's not a high scoring tactic, but it wins games, it's more of a "let's score 1 goal and protect the lead" tactic.
A couple things, what is your team cohesion? And what is the tactical familiarity? As Osasuna, play with a defensive or very defensive mentality, and play with a low tempo...
In my experience it's necessary to keep the shape of the formation and not have them over commit, but you can experiment with the CDM roles and let me know.
No, since you are a small team with less good players you should use Cautious as your base mentality. Go defensive if you play a team like Madrid, Barca and when you play teams your size or worse, you can go to balanced or positive.
But I tried to design it in a way that cautious mentality...
I'm not one of these guys that are gonna write up and format a whole essay on the tactic. But I manage an average team in Athletic Bilbao and won the treble in my 2nd season with a pretty average squad, save 3 or 4 players(Aduriz, Benat, Williams, Martinez) after making this tactic, after coming...