Recent content by Burwood

I had the same problem, the way I counteracted it was to change to 'stand off opponents' (and just have certain players, like my BWM and fullbacks, have an individual instruction to close down opposition), and put both CBs on covering duty. The 'drop deeper defensively', from personal...

How did you manage to get 2 players to have 'attack far post' in the instructions for attacking corners?

I've been using this when playing away from home against some of the bigger teams. Usually I use a 4-2-3-1, and even though I always give the big teams a good game, I usually lose (but I think they just have a better quality of player really). Anyway, I've only used this for 5 games so far, but...

I found that changing one of the BWM (S) to BWM (D) and the other to BBM (S) (leaving the AM alone) works really well.

quick question for everyone who's been using this tactic (or slight variations of it): I've made some tweaks to suit my team, and in terms of possession and CCCs, I am really outplaying teams, but I have only won 2 of 7 (the other games being 4 draws and 1 defeat, but 3 of the draws were...

All these tactics definitely work in the sense that I outplay the opposition, but I find just far too often they will have 1 highlight and score it, compared to my 5 highlights. It's not just every so often either, it happens in about 90% of my games.

Can anyone please tell me how I can set my players to mark an oppositions fullbacks when they have a goal kick? I don't want to mark them all the time though, I just want to stop the opposition keeper constantly passing it out to the defence (if its possible)

Hit and miss. Sometimes it works really well, but other times I struggle to create anything and really hang on to stay in games. Since trying it out, my record is: played 10, won 6, drew 2, lost 2, Goals for 23, Goals against 10 (4 clean sheets) I know that looks pretty good on the surface, but...

I'm playing with West Brom, have been for a long time though (I think I'm in my 9th season) so they're a lot better than they were (almost every player is a regen). It's kind of a shame though, because I like having 4 at the back really (and I have a good right back who will sadly have no place...

I'm struggling with 4 at the back too; I concede so many from crosses into the box (usually where my keeper inexplicably waits near the back post for the ball, and it gets intercepted at the near post by an opposing striker). The philosophy of 'the best form of defence is attack' doesn't seem to...

I had a bad spell last season where I lost 6 out of 8 games, but my advice would be to stick with it if you're still outplaying the opposition. I did, and picked up at the end of the season, beating Man City and Chelsea in 2 of my last few games too.

I'd just like to say a big thank you to The Wibe, and goal2581999, for this tactic. Over the course of a couple of seasons I've made little tweaks here and there to suit my team, and I would recommend everyone do the same, I don't believe there truly is a 'plug and play' tactic for every team...

Conn - do your wingers score more than your striker still? I'm tempted to try the Inside Forward role, but my left winger seems to score a lot already (right winger rarely scores though - maybe because my striker is left footed, so always seems to pass the ball out to the left wing). Also, as...

I tried pushing the AMC to a striking position as a trequartista and it works just as well, plus it allows me to play my one and only good striker too

The match engine is so unfairly weighted to help the CPU in this game. I just lost a game 3-1, with the opposition only having 1 shot on target (one not-shot goal was a cross that went in, and the other was an own goal)