Firstly, I need to inform that I have already posted these tactics in fm-vn forum, so the Vietnamese can also find it there.
Inspired by the Man Utd style during the period 2008/2009, I wanted to bring it into FM, but hadn't been successful until this time. The initial idea was to create an attacking style for Man Utd which must be simple, not many specific instructions and player requirements for some certain positions (I hate having bunches of instructions and requirements). Then, I created an attacking tactic which you only need to adjust the Mentality from Attacking to Counter when playing Away match; however, the thing is that this does not work efficiently with weak teams such as Watford. Consequently, I came up with the Counter version (actually, the Mentality in this one is Standard), which fits Watford. Briefly, I won EPL and Capital One with Swansea, won EPL with Watford, and obtained many promising result in big matches. Hereafter, I will present my tactics mostly with Swansea and Watford.
Tactic Protoss 3.0: Attack and Counter
Attack
Overview
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Team Instructions
Counter
Overview
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Team Instructions
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Results with Swansea (Attacking Mentality with Home matches, and Counter Mentality with Away matches)
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Some matches
With Chelsea (Away)
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With Arsenal (Home)
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With Man.C (Home)
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With Man Utd (Home)
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Some matches with other teams
Against M.C (Away)
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Against Barcelona
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Achievement with Watford
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Some matches
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Training: I set tactical training from the beginning til the end of the seasons; frankly, I'm not sure whether it works effectively if you set other kinds of training (Attacking movement, defending, Team Coherence,...) after the team is familiar with the tactics. However, I do prefer focusing on training team coherence after the team is familiar with the tactics.
There is 1 vital thing is that you NEED to have a good tactical coach. If you play big teams, you can sign Simon Montanaro or Fulvio Florin; meanwhile, if you play those small ones, you can sign 4-star tactical coaches such as Kevin Summerfield (my assistant coach when playing Watford)
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Tactics:
The Attacking Tactic works well with big and medium teams; you only need to change the Mentality from Attacking to Counter when playing away matches. However, if you play small team like Watford, the Counter version is an ideal one.
The Counter one does reduce the shots you have in each match, compared to the attacking one; however, it provides a solid defense for small team when facing bigger teams. On the contrary, the main purpose of the attacking one is to score as many as they can, in order to do so, sometimes players will ignore defending, which leads to some concedes, and reducing mentality to Counter only makes them play a little bit safer.
I also created set piece routines, just because I didn't feel safe with the default routine, so I wanted new ones balanced between attacking and defending when attacking corners.
Many people may realize that I had Juan Jesus with Watford, and actually, I would have Jan Oblak in the next season. The explanation for this is that in Scouting/All known players, I filtered players who are unhappy as well as younger than 25 years old. I also included the filter in the attachments.
The first two files are the tactics.
So Enjoy! Feel free to ask me questions. Your comments and contributions are highly appreciated.
Thanks!
Inspired by the Man Utd style during the period 2008/2009, I wanted to bring it into FM, but hadn't been successful until this time. The initial idea was to create an attacking style for Man Utd which must be simple, not many specific instructions and player requirements for some certain positions (I hate having bunches of instructions and requirements). Then, I created an attacking tactic which you only need to adjust the Mentality from Attacking to Counter when playing Away match; however, the thing is that this does not work efficiently with weak teams such as Watford. Consequently, I came up with the Counter version (actually, the Mentality in this one is Standard), which fits Watford. Briefly, I won EPL and Capital One with Swansea, won EPL with Watford, and obtained many promising result in big matches. Hereafter, I will present my tactics mostly with Swansea and Watford.
Tactic Protoss 3.0: Attack and Counter
Attack
Overview
View attachment 182068
Team Instructions
Counter
Overview
View attachment 1017865
Team Instructions
View attachment 1017866
Results with Swansea (Attacking Mentality with Home matches, and Counter Mentality with Away matches)
View attachment 1017882
View attachment 1017883
View attachment 1017884
View attachment 1017885
Some matches
With Chelsea (Away)
View attachment 1017886
With Arsenal (Home)
View attachment 1017887
With Man.C (Home)
View attachment 1017888
With Man Utd (Home)
View attachment 1017889
Some matches with other teams
Against M.C (Away)
View attachment 1017890
Against Barcelona
View attachment 1017891
View attachment 1017892
View attachment 1017893
View attachment 1017894
Achievement with Watford
View attachment 1017895
View attachment 1017896
View attachment 1017897
View attachment 1017898
View attachment 1017899
Some matches
View attachment 1017900
View attachment 1017901
View attachment 1017902
View attachment 1017903
Instructions
Training: I set tactical training from the beginning til the end of the seasons; frankly, I'm not sure whether it works effectively if you set other kinds of training (Attacking movement, defending, Team Coherence,...) after the team is familiar with the tactics. However, I do prefer focusing on training team coherence after the team is familiar with the tactics.
There is 1 vital thing is that you NEED to have a good tactical coach. If you play big teams, you can sign Simon Montanaro or Fulvio Florin; meanwhile, if you play those small ones, you can sign 4-star tactical coaches such as Kevin Summerfield (my assistant coach when playing Watford)
View attachment 1018447
Tactics:
The Attacking Tactic works well with big and medium teams; you only need to change the Mentality from Attacking to Counter when playing away matches. However, if you play small team like Watford, the Counter version is an ideal one.
The Counter one does reduce the shots you have in each match, compared to the attacking one; however, it provides a solid defense for small team when facing bigger teams. On the contrary, the main purpose of the attacking one is to score as many as they can, in order to do so, sometimes players will ignore defending, which leads to some concedes, and reducing mentality to Counter only makes them play a little bit safer.
I also created set piece routines, just because I didn't feel safe with the default routine, so I wanted new ones balanced between attacking and defending when attacking corners.
Many people may realize that I had Juan Jesus with Watford, and actually, I would have Jan Oblak in the next season. The explanation for this is that in Scouting/All known players, I filtered players who are unhappy as well as younger than 25 years old. I also included the filter in the attachments.
The first two files are the tactics.
So Enjoy! Feel free to ask me questions. Your comments and contributions are highly appreciated.
Thanks!
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