I kid you naught. I'm going to keep this short so that I don't waste your time.
I scored 150 goals last season, in the league alone, with my Malaga team. Now the only reason I signed up for this forum is to share this tactic, and the only reason I am sharing this tactic is because I have pity on those who have yet to experience the goalscoring power of it. I thank the FM gods that I chanced upon this tactic on a random korean site. But I warn you, do not tinker with the tactic to much, or else it won't work as well.
I don't have a picture of my stats with Malaga (uninstalled FM 11 a while ago) but I do have a pic of how it's been working with my chelsea save in FM 12 (I'm only a few games in). At first I was sceptical if it would work well in 12, but, as the picture shows, I have averaged 4.2 goals a game, so I'm not complaining
So basically it is a 4-4-2 with advanced wingers, however it is the team instructions and player instructions that set this apart from normal attacking 4-4-2's. But instead of elaborating on the formation and wasting everybody's time, I will go straight to the kind of players you need in each position.
What you will need: A team with a fair amount of money and/or a team with pacy, good wingers and at least one good striker.
GK: In general, just a good keeper who won't leak many goals.
Important stats: Reflexes, Rushing Out, Communication, Command of Area, etc.
Players like: Neuer, Cech, Casillas
LB/RB: Because the wing backs are so attacking in this formation, expect to see them rack up some serious numbers in the assists department. However, since they are so attacking it is especially important that they have pace, to get back in time, and stamina. They also need to be good at crossing, since the wingers will often pass the ball back for them to cross in.
Important stats: Pace, Stamina, Crossing
Players like: Rafael, Cassani, Bosingwa, Cole, Ramos
CB's: The CB's are very important to this tactic. They, especially, need to be great all around in order for you not to leak goals. With this formation you will find that your team keeps possession of the ball well, and if they lose it, they often get it back almost immidietly. The reason for this is the CB's. Because this formation uses a high defensive line, the CB's come pretty high up the pitch. Thus, when the opponent receives the ball, they often try to hoof it up the field to clear it. What your CB's do is, because they are so far up the field, head it right back into the opponent's zone. This makes it much harder for the opponent to clear its area, and ends up producing many goals. Having said that, your CB's obviously then must have high numbers in jumping and heading.
IMPORTANT NOTE: When you use the formation you will see that one defender is set as central defender : cover. It is important that you put your defender with the best heading and jumping stats in that position. Put your best all round defender there, but only if he has heading and jumping skills that are 15+ in both areas.
Important stats: Jumping, Heading, Tackling, Marking, Stamina, Pace
Players like: I highly recommend Hummels, Terry, Vidic, Phil Jones (when he gets a bit better)
The CM's: Your CM's are important because they link the defense with the offense. They will, at least the box to box midfielder will, score goals as well. They need to have high stats in passing, obviously as well as first touch, because if they have bad first touch they will give the ball away often. Stamina and decisions are also important so that they do not get too tired and that they make good passes to the right people. Teamwork is also crucial.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You will see that the CM's are set to BBM (Box to Box): Support and AP (advanced playmaker): support. MAKE SURE that your best attacking midfielder is in the bbm space, and that your other good midfielder, with less stamina, finishing ability and dribbling is in the AP role. If you are still confused who to put where, just look at your assistant manager's player report. Also, for the bbm role, make sure it is a midfielder who is also fairly physical, like Pastore.
Important stats: (BBM) First touch, dribbling, passing, Physical stats in general, stamina, decisions.
(AP) First touch, passing, stamina, decisions.
Players like: (BBM) Pastore (though you will have to train him in that position or, like I did, use FMRTE. He is perfect for the BBM role, though) Lampard, Modric should be bad either.
(AP) Ganso (best player I have found for this position) Elano, basically anyone who is similar in stats to Ganso
AML/AMR: Basically, your wingers need to be pacy and good at crossing. They should also be good at finishing as they will also get/create tones of CCC's and just chances in general, considering that they are Inside Forwards. They need to have high stamina so that they don't get to tired. It also helps if they are fairly physical, or at least one of them. If you don't know which winger to
Important stats: Pace, Dribbling, Crossing, Finishing, Stamina, Strength, Off the ball, Acceleration, Passing, etc.
Players like: Hulk, Juan Mata, Gervinho, Arshavin, Young etc. (I would highly recommend Hulk and Juan Mata, as they were part of my Malaga team, and both scored over 35 goals and got at least 30 assists)
Strikers: For this tactic to work, you must be very particular with the strikers. The striker in the poaching role will get the most goals in the team. In my malaga save, my poaching striker ended the season with 60+ goals. Yes, I kid you naught. The five MOST IMPORTANT stats for the poacher are (in this order): Finishing, Dribbling, Pace, Work Rate and Determination. If your poacher has those 5 traits all down, you are set. If you can get a striker with 16-17 finishing, dribbling, pace, work rate and determination, I can practically promise you he will have at least 40+ goals (as long as you follow all my instructions) As for the Advanced forward, he is not very important. Just make sure he is someone who will pass the ball off to your poacher and will score a few as well. He will probably score anywhere from 20-40 goals.
Important stats: (P) Finishing, Dribbling, Pace, Work Rate and Determination. He does not need to be good at everything. He is more of a specialist, in a sense.
(AF) Work Rate, Pace, Teamwork, Dribbling, Finishing. Make sure your AF is an average/good all round player
Players like: Fernando Torres (Though he is probably impossible to sign unless you are city, he is easily the best striker in the game and can easily hit the 50 goal mark. He has scored 28 goals in 11 games for me in another save, before that save somehow got corrupted.) What I would do is create a search filter from Torres and go from there.
EDIT: Match Preparation: Put to very high and no specific focus.
Opposition instructions: Leave to your assistant manager, if he is attacking. If not, then to another attacking coach.
You can ask me if you have any questions. Here is the tactic as well as a picture of the results so far with my chelsea team:View attachment 206242View attachment 206243
EDIT: Played two more games. Tied with west brom 1-1 (solely due to their keeper who probably had one of the best games I have ever seen a keeper have, stopping some 13 shots on target.) I then beat Transapor 5-1
I scored 150 goals last season, in the league alone, with my Malaga team. Now the only reason I signed up for this forum is to share this tactic, and the only reason I am sharing this tactic is because I have pity on those who have yet to experience the goalscoring power of it. I thank the FM gods that I chanced upon this tactic on a random korean site. But I warn you, do not tinker with the tactic to much, or else it won't work as well.
I don't have a picture of my stats with Malaga (uninstalled FM 11 a while ago) but I do have a pic of how it's been working with my chelsea save in FM 12 (I'm only a few games in). At first I was sceptical if it would work well in 12, but, as the picture shows, I have averaged 4.2 goals a game, so I'm not complaining
So basically it is a 4-4-2 with advanced wingers, however it is the team instructions and player instructions that set this apart from normal attacking 4-4-2's. But instead of elaborating on the formation and wasting everybody's time, I will go straight to the kind of players you need in each position.
What you will need: A team with a fair amount of money and/or a team with pacy, good wingers and at least one good striker.
GK: In general, just a good keeper who won't leak many goals.
Important stats: Reflexes, Rushing Out, Communication, Command of Area, etc.
Players like: Neuer, Cech, Casillas
LB/RB: Because the wing backs are so attacking in this formation, expect to see them rack up some serious numbers in the assists department. However, since they are so attacking it is especially important that they have pace, to get back in time, and stamina. They also need to be good at crossing, since the wingers will often pass the ball back for them to cross in.
Important stats: Pace, Stamina, Crossing
Players like: Rafael, Cassani, Bosingwa, Cole, Ramos
CB's: The CB's are very important to this tactic. They, especially, need to be great all around in order for you not to leak goals. With this formation you will find that your team keeps possession of the ball well, and if they lose it, they often get it back almost immidietly. The reason for this is the CB's. Because this formation uses a high defensive line, the CB's come pretty high up the pitch. Thus, when the opponent receives the ball, they often try to hoof it up the field to clear it. What your CB's do is, because they are so far up the field, head it right back into the opponent's zone. This makes it much harder for the opponent to clear its area, and ends up producing many goals. Having said that, your CB's obviously then must have high numbers in jumping and heading.
IMPORTANT NOTE: When you use the formation you will see that one defender is set as central defender : cover. It is important that you put your defender with the best heading and jumping stats in that position. Put your best all round defender there, but only if he has heading and jumping skills that are 15+ in both areas.
Important stats: Jumping, Heading, Tackling, Marking, Stamina, Pace
Players like: I highly recommend Hummels, Terry, Vidic, Phil Jones (when he gets a bit better)
The CM's: Your CM's are important because they link the defense with the offense. They will, at least the box to box midfielder will, score goals as well. They need to have high stats in passing, obviously as well as first touch, because if they have bad first touch they will give the ball away often. Stamina and decisions are also important so that they do not get too tired and that they make good passes to the right people. Teamwork is also crucial.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You will see that the CM's are set to BBM (Box to Box): Support and AP (advanced playmaker): support. MAKE SURE that your best attacking midfielder is in the bbm space, and that your other good midfielder, with less stamina, finishing ability and dribbling is in the AP role. If you are still confused who to put where, just look at your assistant manager's player report. Also, for the bbm role, make sure it is a midfielder who is also fairly physical, like Pastore.
Important stats: (BBM) First touch, dribbling, passing, Physical stats in general, stamina, decisions.
(AP) First touch, passing, stamina, decisions.
Players like: (BBM) Pastore (though you will have to train him in that position or, like I did, use FMRTE. He is perfect for the BBM role, though) Lampard, Modric should be bad either.
(AP) Ganso (best player I have found for this position) Elano, basically anyone who is similar in stats to Ganso
AML/AMR: Basically, your wingers need to be pacy and good at crossing. They should also be good at finishing as they will also get/create tones of CCC's and just chances in general, considering that they are Inside Forwards. They need to have high stamina so that they don't get to tired. It also helps if they are fairly physical, or at least one of them. If you don't know which winger to
Important stats: Pace, Dribbling, Crossing, Finishing, Stamina, Strength, Off the ball, Acceleration, Passing, etc.
Players like: Hulk, Juan Mata, Gervinho, Arshavin, Young etc. (I would highly recommend Hulk and Juan Mata, as they were part of my Malaga team, and both scored over 35 goals and got at least 30 assists)
Strikers: For this tactic to work, you must be very particular with the strikers. The striker in the poaching role will get the most goals in the team. In my malaga save, my poaching striker ended the season with 60+ goals. Yes, I kid you naught. The five MOST IMPORTANT stats for the poacher are (in this order): Finishing, Dribbling, Pace, Work Rate and Determination. If your poacher has those 5 traits all down, you are set. If you can get a striker with 16-17 finishing, dribbling, pace, work rate and determination, I can practically promise you he will have at least 40+ goals (as long as you follow all my instructions) As for the Advanced forward, he is not very important. Just make sure he is someone who will pass the ball off to your poacher and will score a few as well. He will probably score anywhere from 20-40 goals.
Important stats: (P) Finishing, Dribbling, Pace, Work Rate and Determination. He does not need to be good at everything. He is more of a specialist, in a sense.
(AF) Work Rate, Pace, Teamwork, Dribbling, Finishing. Make sure your AF is an average/good all round player
Players like: Fernando Torres (Though he is probably impossible to sign unless you are city, he is easily the best striker in the game and can easily hit the 50 goal mark. He has scored 28 goals in 11 games for me in another save, before that save somehow got corrupted.) What I would do is create a search filter from Torres and go from there.
EDIT: Match Preparation: Put to very high and no specific focus.
Opposition instructions: Leave to your assistant manager, if he is attacking. If not, then to another attacking coach.
You can ask me if you have any questions. Here is the tactic as well as a picture of the results so far with my chelsea team:View attachment 206242View attachment 206243
EDIT: Played two more games. Tied with west brom 1-1 (solely due to their keeper who probably had one of the best games I have ever seen a keeper have, stopping some 13 shots on target.) I then beat Transapor 5-1
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