Any advice to avoid relegation?!?

[WillBirley123]

Hi guys,
I just recently decided i wanted to have a go at LLM, but i also wanted to use my own created side called Birley United with no players - so i only had game generated rubbish in my squads.
I, of course, tried to sign everyone i could, nobody wanted to join me, i was 5000-1 to win the league which is crazy. Village clubs wouldn't play friendlies against me because it wouldn't benefit them. So yeah, as you can understand, my club was pretty terrible.
I ended up bring something like 30 free transfers in, who were 'decent players for the regional division'. Having a team full of them, is not good enough for the Skrill South as i now know. But i am not one to give up on a career. and i will keep going. I am now in January, bottom of the table - 17 points adrift of safety. But as we are just halfway through the season anything can happen. And we may well beat the drop, of course avoiding the sacking of myself.

I am in serious trouble of going down though, and i really need someones help with advice of how to get out of this awful position. Dont say 'start again' or 'give up' because like i said earlier, i have no intentions of giving up on this save. I'm gonna see the season out, whether i am to be sacked or not. So please, any tactics, players, anything at all that you think will help me, please comment below.
ot allowing me to upload the images so going to have to write it all out.
My best players are definately Marcus Duherty. he is a striker. Probably my best player.
Toure Mamadouba who is a cm, he is a bit of a Yaya Toure esc player. An engine in the middle.
Don Thomas, on loan from Bristol Rovers, not a bad young player. not enough experience though.
Andy Smallpiece, another free transfer, he is my goalkeeper. Not a bad one in all fairness.

That is my genuine best players.

A serious issue for my club is simply how much we give the ball away. We seem to make 2-3 mistakes every game that we concede/almost concede from. If we cut this out then we would concede half the goals we have done.

The formation we play is usually 4-1-2-2-1 with 2 cms (both box to box) and two wingers. The one striker is a target man.

The team instructions are:

More direct passing
Work Ball into box
run at defence
hit early crosses
stick to positions
allow wide players to swap
hassle opponents
get stuck in
much higher tempo
be more disciplined


General training - Team Cohesion (very high)
Match training - Teamwork

 

[miitchh]

Play defensive. Deep line. Pump ball into box. Hope your targetman does anything.


EDIT: don't make two threads about the same topic you moron.

 

[FreakDJ]

Miitchh, no need to call him a moron...
Anyways, Will, as Miitchh said, play more defensive is a decent solution.Possibly 5 in the back? Try to get the best players you can. Try to get a parent club maybe, for good loan players. Try to bring in non-parent club loan players, too (obviously xD).

Another solution - Try to check the comparison charts so you can compare yourself to the other teams in the league. Try to find your team's strongest attributes and try to use that for your advantage, and create a new tactic.

If you need any further help, contact me and I'll do the best I can.