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this is my attempt to emulate the tactic that Arda Turan will likely use at Shakthar Donetsk.
TACTICAL ANALYSIS: ARDA TURAN'S SHAKHTAR DONETSK 2025-26
1. General Philosophy and Inspirations
Arda Turan aims to blend two major schools of thought:
• Defensive solidity, team cohesion, and compactness learned from Diego Simeone at Atlético Madrid.
• The pursuit of dominating play, ball possession, and attacking quality inspired by Luis Enrique's Barcelona.
The stated objective is to create a team that is solid without the ball but also proactive, effective, and organized in the attacking phase.
2. Defensive Organization
• Likely base formation: A 4-4-2, inspired by Simeone's ideas.
• Compact team blocks, tight lines, and targeted pressing, especially in the non-possession phase.
• A strong focus on occupying the spaces between the lines: "Avoid passes between the lines" is one of Turan's mantras learned from Simeone.
• Wing midfielders (or potentially wide midfielders in a 4-3-3) play a key role in both the defensive and transition phases.
• The defense can drop back in an organized manner, but they never completely abandon the push forward to press the ball carrier.
3. Possession-Based Approach
• Ball possession as identity: The team must be recognizable by its style of play, showing technical security, just as Turan's Eyüpspor dominated possession in the Turkish second division.
• The goal is to attack with patience, with possession values that can reach 60-70% in some matches. However, there's an understanding that in some games against stronger opponents (e.g., in the Champions League), flexibility and the ability to suffer without the ball will be necessary.
• A pure, modern build-up from the back, often involving ball-playing central defenders.
• Important work on midfield rotations and wingers to always provide passing options and maintain territorial dominance.
4. Transitions and Pressing
• Great focus on negative transitions (losing the ball): immediate pressing, especially with midfielders and forwards who become the "first defenders," to quickly recover possession and prevent opponents from counter-attacking.
• Positive transitions (winning the ball back) are strategic: the team is ready to switch quickly from defense to attack by exploiting width or practiced offensive mechanisms.
5. Offensive Organization
• Attacking patterns that reference Luis Enrique's ideas: width, play between the lines, and quick combinations in tight spaces.
• Great importance is given to high-positioned wingers and the attacking runs of midfielders.
• A potential mix of positional attacks (extensive ball circulation, searching for space) and vertical passes and quick switches of play in offensive transitions.
6. Off-Field Aspects and Attention to Detail
• A strong focus on a "professional" approach and a European work method: an analysis team, athletic trainers, a psychologist, medical staff, and communications all work together in synergy.
• Arda wants to transmit a winning but also transparent mentality, focusing on the club's identity, training culture, and organizational structure.
7. Flexibility, Adaptation, and Modernity
• Turan believes in continuous evolution: maximum attention to tactical trends, adaptation to the characteristics of opponents, and in-game adjustments.
• The team can change its formation and rhythm based on difficulties and moments in the season, without ever abandoning its core principles.
In summary:
Under Arda Turan, Shakhtar Donetsk will be an organized, proactive team, always attentive to both phases of the game and capable of mixing defensive aggression with quality in possession. A cohesive unit, ready to adapt, but with a very clear identity both on and off the field.
Arda Turan's Shakhtar Donetsk 2025-26 on FM24
Replicating a complex playing philosophy like Arda Turan’s in FM24 requires careful attention to every phase of the game. The goal is to combine the defensive solidity and mentality of Simeone with the ball possession and offensive fluidity of Luis Enrique. Here’s how you can translate these concepts into the game, focusing on a versatile formation that can adapt to different matches.
1. Tactical Setup: Formation and Team Instructions
To capture the essence of Turan's style, the ideal formation is a 4-3-3 that can transform into a 4-4-2 or other offensive variants.
In Possession Instructions
• Mentality: Positive. This reflects the ambition to dominate play.
• In Possession:
o Attacking Width: Fairly Wide. This is to stretch the opponent's defense and exploit the flanks.
o Passing Directness: Shorter or Mixed. Choose Shorter Passing for total possession control, but if you want more verticality, a Mixed option can work well.
o Tempo: Slightly Lower. This allows players to get into position and move the ball patiently, looking for the right opening.
o Attacking Play: Choose Play Through the Gaps to encourage through balls to your faster players.
o General Attacking: Play Ball Into Box to get players into the penalty area and Focus Play Through The Middle to create numerical superiority in central areas during build-up and development.
o Wing-backs: Use Overlap Left and Overlap Right to create width.
o Build-up: Play Out Of Defence. This encourages central defenders to get involved in the play.
Transition Phase Instructions
• Pressing: Counter-Press. This is the core of Arda Turan's tactical philosophy, inherited from Simeone, focused on winning the ball back immediately.
• Counter: Activate the Counter instruction to launch quick counter-attacks from a favorable position.
• Goalkeeper: Choose Distribute to Centre-Backs and Take Short Kicks to start the build-up from the back.
Out of Possession Instructions
• Pressing: More Often to force opponents into making mistakes.
• Pressing Line: High Pressing Line to press opponents as close to their goal as possible.
• Defensive Line: Higher Defensive Line to compact the team and deny space to opponents.
• Goalkeeper Pressing: Prevent Short Goalkeeper Distribution to stop opponents from building from the back.
• Defensive Strategy: Use Offside Trap to catch opponents off guard.
• Pressing Direction: Force Opponents Wide to keep them away from central zones and the penalty area.
2. Player Roles
The roles are crucial for making the tactic work. Each player must have a specific task that fits with the others.
• Goalkeeper: Sweeper Keeper (Support). This allows the keeper to participate in the build-up from the back, just like Luis Enrique’s goalkeepers.
• Central Defenders: Two Ball-Playing Defenders (Defend). They must have good passing and vision stats to initiate play from the back.
• Fullbacks: Wing-Back (Support). They must provide width and overlap with the wingers, a central idea for both Luis Enrique and Turan.
o Player Instructions: Stay Wider to provide width and Cross From Deep to look for opportunities in the penalty area as soon as they arise.
• Midfield: This is the heart of the team.
o Defensive Midfielder: Half-Back (Defend). This will be the pivot of the midfield, dropping between the two center-backs to help with build-up play. A Deep-Lying Playmaker would be good for a creator role, but not for the specific movement of dropping between the center-backs to create a back-three.
o Right Midfielder: Mezzala (Attack). This player makes runs forward, creating numerical superiority in the box.
o Left Midfielder: Box-to-Box Midfielder. A dynamic role that combines both phases, attacking and defending with equal intensity.
o Player Instructions: Tackle Harder, Move Into Channels, Get Further Forward when possible.
• Attack:
o Right Winger: Inverted Winger (Attack). Their job is to keep the defensive line high and run into space, leaving the flank open for the right-back's overlap. This role is well-suited for a player like Pedrinho at Shakhtar Donetsk.
o Player Instructions: Shoot More Often to give him more freedom to shoot and make him a key threat, and Roam From Position to allow him to find the best position from which to shoot or cross.
o Left Winger: Winger (Attack). This option cuts inside, creating danger for the opponent's defense.
o Central Forward: Complete Forward (Attack). This role is the most versatile: they can score goals, get involved in link-up play by dropping deep to receive the ball, and create space for teammates.
Youtube video:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/fmcalciomaestro529?redirect=true
My site where you can read tactical analysis , fm 24 guides and other contents
https://sites.google.com/view/fmcalciomaestro/football-manager-hub/football-manager-2024
this is my attempt to emulate the tactic that Arda Turan will likely use at Shakthar Donetsk.
TACTICAL ANALYSIS: ARDA TURAN'S SHAKHTAR DONETSK 2025-26
1. General Philosophy and Inspirations
Arda Turan aims to blend two major schools of thought:
• Defensive solidity, team cohesion, and compactness learned from Diego Simeone at Atlético Madrid.
• The pursuit of dominating play, ball possession, and attacking quality inspired by Luis Enrique's Barcelona.
The stated objective is to create a team that is solid without the ball but also proactive, effective, and organized in the attacking phase.
2. Defensive Organization
• Likely base formation: A 4-4-2, inspired by Simeone's ideas.
• Compact team blocks, tight lines, and targeted pressing, especially in the non-possession phase.
• A strong focus on occupying the spaces between the lines: "Avoid passes between the lines" is one of Turan's mantras learned from Simeone.
• Wing midfielders (or potentially wide midfielders in a 4-3-3) play a key role in both the defensive and transition phases.
• The defense can drop back in an organized manner, but they never completely abandon the push forward to press the ball carrier.
3. Possession-Based Approach
• Ball possession as identity: The team must be recognizable by its style of play, showing technical security, just as Turan's Eyüpspor dominated possession in the Turkish second division.
• The goal is to attack with patience, with possession values that can reach 60-70% in some matches. However, there's an understanding that in some games against stronger opponents (e.g., in the Champions League), flexibility and the ability to suffer without the ball will be necessary.
• A pure, modern build-up from the back, often involving ball-playing central defenders.
• Important work on midfield rotations and wingers to always provide passing options and maintain territorial dominance.
4. Transitions and Pressing
• Great focus on negative transitions (losing the ball): immediate pressing, especially with midfielders and forwards who become the "first defenders," to quickly recover possession and prevent opponents from counter-attacking.
• Positive transitions (winning the ball back) are strategic: the team is ready to switch quickly from defense to attack by exploiting width or practiced offensive mechanisms.
5. Offensive Organization
• Attacking patterns that reference Luis Enrique's ideas: width, play between the lines, and quick combinations in tight spaces.
• Great importance is given to high-positioned wingers and the attacking runs of midfielders.
• A potential mix of positional attacks (extensive ball circulation, searching for space) and vertical passes and quick switches of play in offensive transitions.
6. Off-Field Aspects and Attention to Detail
• A strong focus on a "professional" approach and a European work method: an analysis team, athletic trainers, a psychologist, medical staff, and communications all work together in synergy.
• Arda wants to transmit a winning but also transparent mentality, focusing on the club's identity, training culture, and organizational structure.
7. Flexibility, Adaptation, and Modernity
• Turan believes in continuous evolution: maximum attention to tactical trends, adaptation to the characteristics of opponents, and in-game adjustments.
• The team can change its formation and rhythm based on difficulties and moments in the season, without ever abandoning its core principles.
In summary:
Under Arda Turan, Shakhtar Donetsk will be an organized, proactive team, always attentive to both phases of the game and capable of mixing defensive aggression with quality in possession. A cohesive unit, ready to adapt, but with a very clear identity both on and off the field.
Arda Turan's Shakhtar Donetsk 2025-26 on FM24
Replicating a complex playing philosophy like Arda Turan’s in FM24 requires careful attention to every phase of the game. The goal is to combine the defensive solidity and mentality of Simeone with the ball possession and offensive fluidity of Luis Enrique. Here’s how you can translate these concepts into the game, focusing on a versatile formation that can adapt to different matches.
1. Tactical Setup: Formation and Team Instructions
To capture the essence of Turan's style, the ideal formation is a 4-3-3 that can transform into a 4-4-2 or other offensive variants.
In Possession Instructions
• Mentality: Positive. This reflects the ambition to dominate play.
• In Possession:
o Attacking Width: Fairly Wide. This is to stretch the opponent's defense and exploit the flanks.
o Passing Directness: Shorter or Mixed. Choose Shorter Passing for total possession control, but if you want more verticality, a Mixed option can work well.
o Tempo: Slightly Lower. This allows players to get into position and move the ball patiently, looking for the right opening.
o Attacking Play: Choose Play Through the Gaps to encourage through balls to your faster players.
o General Attacking: Play Ball Into Box to get players into the penalty area and Focus Play Through The Middle to create numerical superiority in central areas during build-up and development.
o Wing-backs: Use Overlap Left and Overlap Right to create width.
o Build-up: Play Out Of Defence. This encourages central defenders to get involved in the play.
Transition Phase Instructions
• Pressing: Counter-Press. This is the core of Arda Turan's tactical philosophy, inherited from Simeone, focused on winning the ball back immediately.
• Counter: Activate the Counter instruction to launch quick counter-attacks from a favorable position.
• Goalkeeper: Choose Distribute to Centre-Backs and Take Short Kicks to start the build-up from the back.
Out of Possession Instructions
• Pressing: More Often to force opponents into making mistakes.
• Pressing Line: High Pressing Line to press opponents as close to their goal as possible.
• Defensive Line: Higher Defensive Line to compact the team and deny space to opponents.
• Goalkeeper Pressing: Prevent Short Goalkeeper Distribution to stop opponents from building from the back.
• Defensive Strategy: Use Offside Trap to catch opponents off guard.
• Pressing Direction: Force Opponents Wide to keep them away from central zones and the penalty area.
2. Player Roles
The roles are crucial for making the tactic work. Each player must have a specific task that fits with the others.
• Goalkeeper: Sweeper Keeper (Support). This allows the keeper to participate in the build-up from the back, just like Luis Enrique’s goalkeepers.
• Central Defenders: Two Ball-Playing Defenders (Defend). They must have good passing and vision stats to initiate play from the back.
• Fullbacks: Wing-Back (Support). They must provide width and overlap with the wingers, a central idea for both Luis Enrique and Turan.
o Player Instructions: Stay Wider to provide width and Cross From Deep to look for opportunities in the penalty area as soon as they arise.
• Midfield: This is the heart of the team.
o Defensive Midfielder: Half-Back (Defend). This will be the pivot of the midfield, dropping between the two center-backs to help with build-up play. A Deep-Lying Playmaker would be good for a creator role, but not for the specific movement of dropping between the center-backs to create a back-three.
o Right Midfielder: Mezzala (Attack). This player makes runs forward, creating numerical superiority in the box.
o Left Midfielder: Box-to-Box Midfielder. A dynamic role that combines both phases, attacking and defending with equal intensity.
o Player Instructions: Tackle Harder, Move Into Channels, Get Further Forward when possible.
• Attack:
o Right Winger: Inverted Winger (Attack). Their job is to keep the defensive line high and run into space, leaving the flank open for the right-back's overlap. This role is well-suited for a player like Pedrinho at Shakhtar Donetsk.
o Player Instructions: Shoot More Often to give him more freedom to shoot and make him a key threat, and Roam From Position to allow him to find the best position from which to shoot or cross.
o Left Winger: Winger (Attack). This option cuts inside, creating danger for the opponent's defense.
o Central Forward: Complete Forward (Attack). This role is the most versatile: they can score goals, get involved in link-up play by dropping deep to receive the ball, and create space for teammates.
Youtube video:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/fmcalciomaestro529?redirect=true
My site where you can read tactical analysis , fm 24 guides and other contents
https://sites.google.com/view/fmcalciomaestro/football-manager-hub/football-manager-2024
