Recent content by tacticalterrier

Hey guys, just wrote an article on your 4-2-1-3 you played against Everton, thought you might be interested in taking a look? It's got good feedback so far but since you're United fans, you might be able to give a better judgement? Any feedback is welcome, you can follow me on twitter as well if...

Thanks pal, will do next time! I just consider it to be an outdated formation, though wouldn't it be pretty much a 4-2-3-1 if Podolski dropped deep enough? I guess Wenger will be an expert on the 4-4-2 though since all the success he's had with it, It is a possibilty, though I'd stick with the...

Hi guys, as Santi Cazorla will soon be an Arsenal player, I did an article on my blog about how he could fit in to the Gunner's line-up, the post got an average reception on Reddit and I thought you guys might be interested, so I'll just post a link to it. Football Tactics From A Terrier...

I've just made another article purely on the 3 man defence, you might want to take a look as it covers the weak-points and it's advantages with real life examples! Football Tactics From A Terrier!: Analysis of the 3 Man Defence

Exactly what I use actually! (defensive wingers) One thing with this though is that I'd recommend using a really defensive-minded midfielder who drops deep to the CDM slot because there can be quite a lot of space in between the lines, or you could use Italy's formation and use a DLP in...

The 3 man defence works best against two strikers, Universidad De Chile manager Jorge Sampaoli has a rule to always have an extra man over the opposition attackers, so 3 defenders to 2 attackers, 2 to 1, 4 to 3 etc. This is good because you can have your players man marking the strikers apart...

I didn't edit them much, just stopped them taking long shots really... But, if you want Gervinho to cut into the space that RVP leaves behind, then put him on a very high mentality with runs from deep set to often he's also got a good creativity so you can give him a high creative freedom. As...

Right I'll test it out, thanks.

Hey, the PIs for RVP are pretty much the same for the one I gave Rooney in my recent post, they'll work the same anyway. Um they'd both play well as target men but I'd suggest having Damiao in a similar role to RVP, but try and concentrate him on holding the ball more and bring others into...

Can't we choose the target man supply? I'm not using run on the ball OP stuff I'm getting the whole team to smash it to Crouch's head, isn't that acceptable or will I have to live with him being made to run onto through balls with his 6'7" lankiness on the 'mixed' option?

**Sorry for the lack of posts recently, I've been very busy with exams but now I'll be back on track with frequent articles hopefully** The Deep Lying Forward/Poacher Partnership To win games, you must score goals. As much as I dislike...

Well if you played stopper/cover, Mertesacker would be the stopper on limited defender and Vermaelen would be BPD cover, but the best defensive set up against a 4-4-2 is actually to play a 3 at the back so you always have a spare defender. If you were to play this with Arsenal, you would use...

I'm glad it was pal! In terms of signings, I wouldn't make anymore... That seems fine mate, although you could change Delap to BWM/Defend or making him a B2B midfielder but change his mentality to a slightly more defensive one. This will mean he plays the ball around more than he would do on...

The DLP would be unaffected but you wouldn't see as many runs from deep from the advanced playmaker which is a very important aspect of his game. As I said earlier, he's more of a 'box-to-box playmaker' than an advanced playmaker and if you put him in AMC instead, he wouldn't play box to box so...

Of what build are your players? Because their main attributes will dictate what roles they would suit best. Anyway, an idea is to set them both as box to box players marking the opposition CMs, and this will give you freedom for the CDM who you can change from anchor man to DLP (and maybe move...