Recent content by Der elegante Milanista

I've been suffering from a serious problem out there. I'm with Man City, and I usually don't spend even half the transfer budget given to me every season because my team is incredibly strong already, so I spend some of the remaining money on youth signings for my youth team. I have excellent...

Some preferred moves can't be taught in fact, such as "argues with officials", "arrives late in opponents area" and "tries to play way out of trouble". "curls ball" is just one of these.

If they miss a lot of easy chances then the problem is with them. If so, all you can do is wait for them to improve their mental attributes enough + maybe teach them to place shots or round keeper for more scoring consistency in one-on-ones. If they actually don't even get chances, then the...

Nevermind mate. I can't judge what I don't know, lol. Anyway, here's the final outcome of arguably the most difficult match in the whole Premier League, against Chelsea in Stamford Bridge! (for your information I'm using a Jan. transfers update editor which means they had Luiz and...

Yep, Messi works best as an Inside Forward or Trequartista. I personally don't like him as an Advanced Playmaker because he naturally runs with ball often which conflicts with the nature of a typical Advanced Playmaker. He may also play as a Deep Lying Forward in a flat 4-4-2 but he wouldn't get...

Probably my first truly remarkable result. I haven't yet played any of the Premier League biggies, anyway. (note: Rooney missed three one-on-ones in that match oO)) SS19: I didn't properly understand what you meant due to my poor English. Could you please re-phrase what you said again in a...

Jonny Evans, Danny Wilson, Jack Rodwell (even though he works best in midfield), Phil Jones, and Ryan Shawcross seem to be the best I've seen. I don't think any other names are the same remarkable.

Well, I love German football, and Germany is my favourite national team in the world. I'm personally fond of Bayer Leverkusen, due to their impressive string of performances last season before they suddenly dropped and couldn't even secure qualification for the Champions League, shame really...

Though I believe Ronaldo will never be remembered as a legend, there's no way you can compare Nani with hiim. Nani is a good top quality player, no more and no less. But when you compare him with Ronaldo, the only thing we find Nani capable of is spoiling all Ronaldo's effort when that latter...

A download link will be available soon if anyone wants to try it out, but I'm not showing off the tactic or whatever because as I said, I haven't experienced it long enough yet. I actually posted the tactic to ask for advice, and to get to know other people's experiences with false nine tactics...

Hi people! I wanted to share this tactic because it's very interesting to try. I've always been thinking how to utilize a "Trequartista" role to full extent, so I developed this tactic for testing and chose Man Utd to apply it as this exact team has all it requires to create a very solid "False...

Thanks to all who have responded, but I believe you misunderstood what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about having any Target Man in a 4-4-2, cause I know he'd work with a Poacher or in a diamond 4-4-2 setup (he'd be given a support duty). I was talking about a Target Man - Attack "leading...

Reputation analyzes might help you decide your tactical approach to the game. Most times in the Serie A or Premier League when I face a weaker team that does well against teams with reputations similar to mine, I prefer using match preparation to train my team on attacking set pieces...

I'd prefer to supply him to feet. First his technique and creativity are high enough to make him produce magic when the whole team relies on him, just like Ibrahimovic in real life Milan. Second I think you're using him as a lone striker (which what I'd do whenever I had Dzeko as well) so it's...

This has been the topic of a hot discussion between me and a friend of mine. I always had the belief that the basic 4-4-2 and its variants would require both strikers swapping positions and constantly moving into channels, thus making the target man role kind of useless. I still believe a target...