Recent content by MarcOvermars

Anyone can make a possession tactic by choosing some of the following: Conservative mentality Wide formation with one striker Shorter passing Play out of defense Dribble less Work ball into box Urgent pressing Prevent short GK distribution Using lots of support duties Telling players to cross...

Try a 4-3-1-2 with DLP(d) as the central of three midfielders, two more defensive-minded midfielders on either side of him with instructions to stay wider, and a T(a) ahead of them. The two forwards can be AF(a) or PF(a), and the wingbacks can be CWB(s). If you play slightly more conservatively...

1. Players stop developing past 20 years old. That's too young to cut off CA improvements. Slow down improvement, sure, but don't make it so that a 22 year old with room for improvement can't actually improve. Buying 20-25 year olds is a waste now. You have to buy teenagers if you want to buy...

I just lost 4-0 against a far inferior opponent, while using a fairly neutral tactic. The post-match screen assured me that my team was "unlucky," which makes me wonder if I've ever seen a real-life match where the team who lost 4-0 was the better/unlucky team.

I think tandem instructions are missing. If the right fullback is attacking then the left back stays back. Same with a pair of central midfielders. We should be able to tell them both to get forward if possible, but not when their partner is already forward.

31 matches into an EPL season, my club was sitting in 2nd place, just 3 points back of Man City. Match 32 against Man City: We conceded 4 goals in the first 10 minutes, all a bit flukey, with two deflections and one of those fantastically slow motion rebounds where every opponent reacts while...

This is not my site, but you should give it a read if you are interested in strikerless tactics: Strikerless FM15; The Next Generation | Strikerless I have tried some of the strikerless variations, and all work sort of well. I do find, however, that dual striker formations tend to be more...

This central approach works really well in FM15 if you swap out the AMC for a DMC. The extra coverage defensively in the middle allows the wingbacks more freedom to get forward. It also allows you to use a CM(a) to run forward from central midfield and basically be Frank Lampard in his prime. I...

Agent Fees There are too many agents demanding agent fees exceeding the annual wages of their players (which...how is that even legal?). Also, I just tried signing Calum Chambers, and his agent demanded 3.9 million and locked it in from negotiation. Agents are such a killjoy.

It is 2019. I have a player on contract for 1.4 million per year, signed until 2022. His agent demands a new deal for him. I agree to talk, and the agent demands 5.6 million per year. So they want me to just quadruple his wages, three years in advance of the end of his contract. That's just...

Is it necessary to use a DLP in the centre of three CMs? I would be tempted to give that player a CM-A role since you have a HB directly behind him. One (or two) of you wider CMs can then be used as more of a support player to balance out the trio.

Your advice is the best strategy to take, but it still does not matter with a highly injury prone player. Unless you just stop trying to play him altogether, he will average 5 injuries per season, regardless of how much you baby him in training or matches. You just can't get them back to full...

The game takes injury prone to an absurd level. They are perennially injured or lacking match fitness. Even on the rare occasions when they do play for you, they will find a way to get hurt before halftime, forcing you to burn a substitution. They just aren't ownable. The only way to change it...

Let's say you are playing 46 regular league matches and another ~10 cup matches in a season. That is 56 matches. You absolutely have to rotate all players, regardless of status, to keep from burning out your squad and limit injury exposure. Having to speak to each player before resting him for...

Assist locations are incorrect. The game says I concede over half of my goals from my right side, but when I trace those goals back and look at past match highlights, that is just not the case. So the map of goals conceded is useless, and I am fairly sure the goals scored side of things is...