APR's Goal Machine: 2-5-2-1 Formation

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NyanOverlord said:
Plugged and Played with this tactis as Liverpool, season 1 with some major transfers (Out - Mane, Matip, Moreno, Klavan; In - Kane, Milinkovic-Savic, Grimaldo, De Ligt, Arthur, Dolberg), results and squad stats below:

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Won almost everything - lost by penalties vs Atletico in CL finals. Wingbacks are as impressive as in FM16 and 17.
We have conceded lots though - 44 goals in Premier League - maybe due to the fact that I used Joe Gomez in my starting 11 and Mignolet/Karius are pretty average guys for this sort of tactic.

Overall really impressed with the playstyle, I'll bring world-class goalkeeper and CD in the 2nd season and check if we'll conceed less or not.
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I'm playing FM since 2010 and use tactics from this community very often. This years FM is quite boring in my opinion. Realistic tactics are garbage and i dont like to play with 3 up front. I started a new save with Arsenal using this 2-5-2-1 formation and i must say that i'm impressed so far. Seems very consistent and solid. I'm using the same line up as trugunner except for Wilshere and Ramsey. They are my back-up players for rotation. I'm playing with Andre Gomes and Milinkovic Savic. Also i mostly use Elneny for DM because he is more advanced in that position. I will post some screens later with results.
 
Trying it with Southampton, I have played 4 matches so far and won 3 of them against stoke,brighton and QPR but I lost too hard (4-0) against Manchester United. I am gonna try it for 10 matches and upload some screenshots.

I am sorry man. I played against Chelsea and lost 3-0. Played against City and lost 5-0. This tactic definitely doesn't work against better teams.
 
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JacksonIsHere said:
Trying it with Southampton, I have played 4 matches so far and won 3 of them against stoke,brighton and QPR but I lost too hard (4-0) against Manchester United. I am gonna try it for 10 matches and upload some screenshots.

I am sorry man. I played against Chelsea and lost 3-0. Played against City and lost 5-0. This tactic definitely doesn't work against better teams.
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Sorry to hear that. I didn't test with another team so I didn't have a chance to tweak. Let me see what I can do.
 
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Tukker said:
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Well it's working for Arsenal. Very nice results and a away victory against City.
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Glad to see it's working for you! Outside of those 2 changes in CM, any other transfer's? I'm thinking of replacing Cech. Going to wait to see what happens in summer transfer window.
 
trugunner said:
Sorry to hear that. I didn't test with another team so I didn't have a chance to tweak. Let me see what I can do.
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I didn't mean to offend you, I noticed that I had many opportunities around the opponents' penalty area against weaker teams, but against better teams??? was a nightmare actually. Maybe I should have played as contra tactic against better opponents.
 
JacksonIsHere said:
I didn't mean to offend you, I noticed that I had many opportunities around the opponents' penalty area against weaker teams, but against better teams??? was a nightmare actually. Maybe I should have played as contra tactic against better opponents.
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No offense taken. I've been playing around with the tactic and ran into the same issue as you. I tweaked it a tad but results were still losses, just not by as many goals.
 
trugunner said:
Glad to see it's working for you! Outside of those 2 changes in CM, any other transfer's? I'm thinking of replacing Cech. Going to wait to see what happens in summer transfer window.
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Yeah! A lot of beautiful long distance shot goals btw. No other major transfers. A few regens, Sander Berge and left back wonderkid Aaron Martin. Sold Monreal to a Chinese club (january transfer) and Welbeck to Man City. I'm going to finish this season with Cech. I also want to sign a decent back-up for Özil and Mkhitaryan in winter transfer window. Any suggestions?
 
cant download it , please drop another link download or via attchement
 
Any chance you can post the tactic without having to download it off a separate site please? I cant get it :'(
 
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