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

[aimleeds]

@aimleeds, I did a successful season with Spurs too and I never play them together. Only if I was chasing a result, I put Adebayor as CF (Strength and more powerful) and Defoe as AF. Worked well and always get the effect that I want

Do you still have Sigurdsson? He was a beast in CF role. He scored around 25 goals in all competitions playing there. Also, with his set-pieces stat, is a bonus have him in the team. He perform well in the wings too, when needed.

Is Pepe still in Juventus? I bought him in January and he's quite good. He plays on many positions and has excellent tactical attributes. On more tough games I always play him, on right or left. I know it's crazy but in some games Bale was in the bench (in favor of Pepe and due to some injuries) because he loses too many balls and defensively isn't that good with teams taking advantage of that.

good to hear that man. agree with that, but the thing when adebayor as CF, he always to deep when the crosses are flying in the box. haha.. but yeah they both did well though. never tried sigurdson as CF, but he was solid as winger, alwasys cutting in scored a few great goal from outside the box. will give pepe a look, but maybe a bit too old for my liking.

i think destro could play as a advanced forward train him to be a advanced forward he's young and also u can get Carlos fierro.i also playing with spurs 4-4-1-1 my team are like that lloris-santon-verthongen-zouma-kyle walker-lucas leiva-sandro(huddlestone)Wellington nem(lennon)-bale-holtby and defoe i won the premier league and european cup first season i'm going to buy jovetic with my all cash

thanks man. definately looking up for fierro. he has been the talk of this topic man.

 

[pollackattack]

thanks man.. will check them out tonight. but i think nem has been bought. i bought destro free transfer. coming in in july. what do u think destro suitable position is? CF or AF?



yeah man.. a left back, left wing as back up to bale, right wing probably better than lennon, and both striker. i got this problem that i am not quiet sure which is defoe n adebayor prefer position. i always rotate them because they did not perform consistently. in one match defoe as cf and adebayor as AF, and the other way round. dembele did very well as CF though.

destro would defo suit the CF role, without a doubt !

 

[piotr07]

thanks man.. will check them out tonight. but i think nem has been bought. i bought destro free transfer. coming in in july. what do u think destro suitable position is? CF or AF?



yeah man.. a left back, left wing as back up to bale, right wing probably better than lennon, and both striker. i got this problem that i am not quiet sure which is defoe n adebayor prefer position. i always rotate them because they did not perform consistently. in one match defoe as cf and adebayor as AF, and the other way round. dembele did very well as CF though.

Ok so Left Wings:
Pablo Armero - I signed him from Udinese for free in my Benfica save, good stamina and good match raiting for all 3 season
Marcos Rojo
Martin Olsson
Gôtoku Sakai

Back up to Bale ML/AML:
André Schürrle - I think one of the best ML/AML in the game
André Ayew
Niko Kranjcar
Nicuşor Stanciu - he is young but you will see

MR/AMR:
Xherdan Shaqiri - one of the best in the game
Younès Belhanda
Lukasz Piszczek
Sofiane Feghouli

Strikers:
Marco Reus
Robert Lewandowski
Stevan Jovetic
Givanildo Vieira de Sousa - HULK
Carlos Fierro
Wilfried Bony
Darwin Quintero
Omer Damari

 

[TheFMFanatic]

I was just wondering whether you should change something in this tactic whilst playing away from home?

 

[herne79]

I was just wondering whether you should change something in this tactic whilst playing away from home?

Nope

 

[aimleeds]

destro would defo suit the CF role, without a doubt !

i dont know why, but destro is not performing well at now. his form is always around or 6 or even below. i have been talking to him about his form twice now.

Ok so Left Wings:
Pablo Armero - I signed him from Udinese for free in my Benfica save, good stamina and good match raiting for all 3 season
Marcos Rojo
Martin Olsson
Gôtoku Sakai

Back up to Bale ML/AML:
André Schürrle - I think one of the best ML/AML in the game
André Ayew
Niko Kranjcar
Nicuşor Stanciu - he is young but you will see

MR/AMR:
Xherdan Shaqiri - one of the best in the game
Younès Belhanda
Lukasz Piszczek
Sofiane Feghouli

Strikers:
Marco Reus
Robert Lewandowski
Stevan Jovetic
Givanildo Vieira de Sousa - HULK
Carlos Fierro
Wilfried Bony
Darwin Quintero
Omer Damari

cheers man.. end of 2nd season trasfer window, i mangged to get in quiet a few, alaba, andrew ayew (i wish i get yamalenko, but he chose united), destro (free), ademilson, shawcross, crisetig, bochetti and butland. and i sell quiet a few as well, dempsey, benoit ekotto, dawson, falque, gomes gallas etc.

maybe because of that the team performance has been below par. still winning but draw 1 with real madrid, and lose 1 to liverpool. but all the win is a narrow pure luck 1-0, 3-2 etc, but win is still win right. hopefully the team gel, and kick start the season as soon as possible.

 

[pollackattack]

i dont know why, but destro is not performing well at now. his form is always around or 6 or even below. i have been talking to him about his form twice now.



cheers man.. end of 2nd season trasfer window, i mangged to get in quiet a few, alaba, andrew ayew (i wish i get yamalenko, but he chose united), destro (free), ademilson, shawcross, crisetig, bochetti and butland. and i sell quiet a few as well, dempsey, benoit ekotto, dawson, falque, gomes gallas etc.

maybe because of that the team performance has been below par. still winning but draw 1 with real madrid, and lose 1 to liverpool. but all the win is a narrow pure luck 1-0, 3-2 etc, but win is still win right. hopefully the team gel, and kick start the season as soon as possible.

thats a huge squad rotation, so yeah, give it some months to gel and it will work nice

 

[Volodya]

dont know whats i do wrong? what with my forwards?

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my first 11
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seria A

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what i must do? buy more creative DMs? or Better Wingers? or my forwards is bad?

 

[piotr07]

thats a huge squad rotation, so yeah, give it some months to gel and it will work nice

focus training for tactic and intensity for high, prematch training for attacking and you will see good results, it works for me in Benfica Lisabon and now in Bayern Munchen

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And if you click on tactic menu you will see your actual team´s knowledge

 

[piotr07]

dont know whats i do wrong? what with my forwards?

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my first 11
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seria A

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what i must do? buy more creative DMs? or Better Wingers? or my forwards is bad?

What about your fluid tactic? Is it your first season with this tactic?

 

[Volodya]

What about your fluid tactic? Is it your first season with this tactic?

i plug in this tactic at half of previos season. what about fluid? look at 2nd screenshot.

 

[fruity pebbles]

when i try to import the filter, it says file could not be imported. can anyone help?

 

[phat_dick]

Experiencing the same problem as you FatTony.

5th in the league and 2nd in the Euro League with only one purchase (Schneiderlin) is not much to brag about.

Is it the OI that fails? Cause everything else seems to be working.
How can you find an assistant with 16+ in tactical and defending when your not a supreme team?

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[darkhon]

seanhrfc, this tactic rullz my friend. here some pics..

first season with Galatasaray, just sign some player in middle-season
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bad luck?
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2nd season, signed/loaned pack of good players;
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bad luck? again?
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League tables:
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cheers mate, this tactic is a good one

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as you can see i had an injury issue. you can say it is just a bad luck but if i have a big match next week, everytime two or three of my key players get injured in training or previous match. Sneider, Selcuk, N'Djeng, Jem, Peruzzi, Burak are my key players, but as you can see in critical matches i posted, you'll only see some of them.

i am extremely satisfied, your tactic is the best tactic for this patch. My team plays well, i keep my staff happy and i am pretty sure i will conquer europe in following years.

and to those who have complaints about this tactic; the problem is not the tactic

thanks mate..

 

[j3nick]

Hi Sean, just had the last straw as far as i'm concerned.

Started season 6 with what is now a very strong squad and i had already decided that i would only continue if i didn't get ****** over early in the season.

This is half time in my 2nd league game of the season against a Southampton team with only a couple of decent players in the squad.

I played out the 2nd half and as expected we completely dominated, but missed more good chances and went on to lose 2-1. Had i drawn, i might have had it in me to continue, but its just one loss too many for me and so that's me done.

I just don't understand SI's thinking when it comes to FM anymore, who do they really think want's to put so much time and effort into a long term save when this is the only way the AI can be made to challenge???

This is "normal " this year I lost lot of games like this my team have around 20 shot on target 4-5 ccc opponent have 1 or 2 shot and my team lost after fatal keeper bug. Yes I still have great result but for me is this worst FM ever and not realy enjoy

 

[macca72]

Yeah and what i find very strange is that when i posted the issue at SI, i was more or less told to shut up or be banned? what is that about?

I was also told that it was my "tactics", so when i mentioned that i had probably used over 200 different tactics during FM13 including the "in game" tactics, this is when they got arsey and threatened to ban me.

Truth is, if you look at the AI controlled teams, you WILL find that they both win and lose these kinds of games and may well even out over a few seasons, but this is simply not the case for Human controlled teams. I must have played close to 300 matches in my most recent Norwich save and i can honestly say that i'm lucky to nick even a single point over a season, whilst i easily drop 20 or 30.

Why the cover up?

In my experience (talking to people who are both on and off the forums here and at SI) I've had loads of conversations about how much more random this patch feels. I witnessed it much, much less in prior patches, but this one does appear unfathomable at times.

 

[dimaria]

Is this tactic ready for the latest patch? Sorry if you´ve already answered but didn´t see...Starting with QPR anyone sugest any players?

Thanks

 

[YOANNS]

have i to use individual training ?

 

[pollackattack]

have i to use individual training ?

i always put players individual training according to the position they play in, it works really good for me that way

 

[pollackattack]

Is this tactic ready for the latest patch? Sorry if you´ve already answered but didn´t see...Starting with QPR anyone sugest any players?

Thanks

yeah, the tactic works with newest patches. as for the players look over your team, see how you are according to the recommended attributes and if you think you lack players in certain positions, check out sean's player recommendations