Arrigo Sacchi's 4-4-2: High Pressure, Attacking Tactic for Top Teams and Underdogs

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yes, so important. ended 4th and need the CL to enter next years CL
 
Awful news. My laptop crashed and in doing so it managed to delete all of my save games alongside other things. I have lost everything :(
 
I have to say I have tested many tactics and for me personally this is the best. I won the Danish Prem within 2 seasons and the Euro cup the following season (with Randers FC). I was then given the Ajax job. So far I have rebuilt the team and I am still in control of the league and doing well in the Euro Cup.

Great Tactic
 
whiteij7544 said:
What would you class as defensive wingers?
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Guys like Christian Maggio(Italy & Napoli) or Kwadwo Asamoah(Juventus) and Maicon(Roma) would be an ideal 'defensive winger'. By defensive wingers you're basically looking for some really attacking wingbacks. Andre Ayew(Marseille) is a pretty decent choice for it in game as well imo.
 
I was on this thread a while back and mentioned I had problems with this tactic on my saves with Roma and Napoli, although I did enjoy success with Manchester United. I came back to England and tried it again with Tottenham, and this was the result of my third friendly against the mighty Real Madrid.

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As you can see, we completely demolished them, created EIGHT clear cut chances as well as a few half chances, but due to some poor finishing and some great goalkeeping by Casillas and Lopez, we only managed to score four. Vertonghen and Dawson shut down Ronaldo completely and Real scored their goals late on because I decided to sub my CBs to avoid injuries.

I think the reason I struggled in Italy is because most teams there play a 3-5-2 which is one the obvious counter formations to a 4-4-2(along with a 4-3-3 perhaps). I think I have seen people doing well in Italy with this tactic though, did you guys make any changes to it?
 
Arvind K said:
Guys like Christian Maggio(Italy & Napoli) or Kwadwo Asamoah(Juventus) and Maicon(Roma) would be an ideal 'defensive winger'. By defensive wingers you're basically looking for some really attacking wingbacks. Andre Ayew(Marseille) is a pretty decent choice for it in game as well imo.
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Thanks for that, I hadn't thought of wing-backs.
 
Will this tactic work better with defensive wingers then? Or do we base it on a game to game basis on the type of wingers we use?
Thanks in advance. :)
 
LukeGame said:
Will this tactic work better with defensive wingers then? Or do we base it on a game to game basis on the type of wingers we use?
Thanks in advance. :)
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I have made two different line-ups: One with attacking wings (El-Shaarawy and Fischer) and one with more defensive wings (Coentráo and Lodi). Use the attacking in home games and easy away and the defensive one against more difficult opponents. This works great for me and won against Real Madrid in the CL final where I was drawn as away team
 
Very happy with this on my new save, just won the Bundesliga with Freiburg in the 1st season :)

I highly recommend both Helenius and Vossen, not had either before. Both very affordable, Vossen was 2.5m up front and 2.5m over 48 months in January and his goals won us the title. Of course Strandberg class as always, Check out Ginter, Schuster and Diagne too, not sure how much they'd cost.
 
Thanks for the great tactic, I specially enjoy the time you've spent on explaining all the details and background to this!

I'm one of those who really don't know anything about football tactics, just happen to enjoy good manager game every now and then, so I've been a bit puzzled how to go about in FM 2013.

I started my season with Hatfield Town in South Midlands Premier Division just for the fun of it, using a mod to enable those lower teams. Initially my team was completely full of "temporary" players (you know, those greyed out dudes). I put this tactic in use and hired some great players and started to roll.. and what a run has it been.

I'm just above 1/3rd of the season and after some initial friendly match defeats I've only lost my first official match so far, leading the league with 11 wins, 4 draws,1 loss and 5 points difference to the 2nd team.

Currently I'm thinking that most of the success can be credited to the tactic and far superior players, so I'm kind of nervous going onwards.

So, I have a question about this..

Is there some ways to easily and sensibly turn this into more defensive formation in a long run? Is there sense to just change strategy to defensive and leave everything else same as before, or should I try and figure out a secondary tactic?
So far just setting defensive it has worked, but then again, it seems that the team is just far superior right now. .
Currently my team is very akward with this tactic, and since it's amateur league, there seems to be very little what I can do to change that. They're quite akward towards every other tactic too so I'm guessing that's standard in this level of league.

Here's a video of my latest and most superior victory so far, I like how the little guys play :)

FM 2013 - Hatfield Town 5-0 Hertford Town - Match Highlights - YouTube

Anyways, I really appreciate this tactic, just letting you know that! I hope you recover from your laptop disaster!
 
hi seanvrfc

1. waht team talks do you use ?
2. hiw you motivate players ? your method ?
3. training schedule you use overall and individual
4. what about opp instruction its better if *** manager handle them ?

i am not concedings goals with barrow team season 2014-2015 with this tactic only one lost within 25 games incredbile just i want some more tips so i can better my performance thnks friend
 
seanhrc only you can help me my team has not won in these 5 games how cna i boost the team to start winning please help :(
 
Does this still work with underdogs in current patch? For example with Reading or QPR in the EPL.
 
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